The Summer Tree, Guy Gavriel Kay

GGK Book Club: THE SUMMER TREE, ch 13-16

Dammit, I knew I was going to be bad at this, which was why my basic intention was to read the books all at once and set up posts ahead of time with my commentary to autopost on the appropriate days. Life, however, hasn’t been enormously accommodating in that regard (February will, I swear, be better), and obviously I haven’t been very good at getting things posted. I did finish *reading* SUMMER TREE, but oi, We’ll be starting THE WANDERING FIRE this week, with chapters 1-4 up on Tuesday. Or…

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The Summer Tree, Guy Gavriel Kay

GGK Book Club: THE SUMMER TREE, ch 9-12

You know how you have those days where you’re sure that you’ll manage to have time to do that thing so you don’t let people know that you’re not doing it that day because you’re going to have time even if it’s at the last minute, and then it’s three days later and you haven’t done it because you kept being sure you’d have time and Yes, I thought you were familiar with that. This is why the post for chapters 9-12 is so late. I’ve caught up on the…

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The Summer Tree, Guy Gavriel Kay

GGK Book Club: THE SUMMER TREE, ch 5-8

Guys, I have totally not re-read the next four chapters. #embarrassed to death However, just because I haven’t re-read them lately is no reason for other people to have to wait on discussing them, so I’m going to open up the comments (ideally on the mizkit.com site) for discussion for those of you who ARE keeping up. Spoil away, since I have, after all, *read* them, if not for some time. :) I should, I hope, be back on track next week, but I’m doing revisions on a book that’s…

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a quoteable morning

It’s been a pretty quoteable morning around here. First my son and I were playing superheroes and he said to me, “Who is in that Iron Man armor?” I said, “Tony Stark, and he, quite reasonably, wanted to know who Tony Stark was. I said, “A philanthropist playboy billionaire genius.” Young Indiana said, “Like me?” Just like you, honey. Just like you. <3 :) Then over on Twitter, Alastair Reynolds (‏@AquilaRift), whom I like a lot as both a writer and a person, said, for some reason, that he won…

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The Summer Tree, Guy Gavriel Kay

GGK Book Club: The Summer Tree, ch 1-4

Welcome to the GGK Book Club! We’ll be reading the whole of GGK’s works in publication order over the course of the year. January’s novel is THE SUMMER TREE, first of the Fionavar Tapestry, and since it’s a tidy 16 chapters, we’ll be reading (or at least discussing) 4 chapters from TST every week. A comment from me as the moderator/organizer of this project: GGK does not work for everybody as a reader. In fact, he seems to either really work or really not, so if you’re coming to these…

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