For this week’s segment, we’re going to be reading the next two stories, “Into the Night” and “Lost Hearts” and we’ll discuss them Thursday. We need someone (or someones!) to recap! Any volunteers? (Of course, I will be the recapper of last resort if necessary but you guys are so much better at it than I!)
As always, if you absolutely positively have to talk about some major spoiler in comments, please rot13.
It has also come up that some wish to have a place where they can yell “DIBS!” I suppose this is as good a place to yell “dibs!” as any. (One should also keep in mind that just because someone yelled “DIBS!” on your favorite book, the one that you were hoping to recap, know that you can still submit one. We’ll read and argue over that one too.) Dibs, so far, behind the cut:
This has been a *ROUGH* day so I’m not going to list *ALL* of the books like I had planned, as placed in their respective collections, when I originally said we’d need a new template. We’ll get there… just Not Yet. We’ll do that next week.
That said:
Glyph wants #17, Calliope
Glyph wants #19, Midsummer
Russell Saunders wants #35, Beginning to See the Light
Russell Saunders wants #50, Ramadan
Reformed Republican wants #54, The Golden Boy
Anybody else?
Needs an edit: it’s “Into the Night” and “Lost Hearts” this week.
Grah. You’re right. Fixed.
I’ll recap them.
Awesome.
If you’re allowing double-ups, I might do something for “Midsummer”. I also tentatively call “The Tempest”, but that’s far enough in the future that I can’t make promises.
Q for later: What’s our reading order for “A Game of You” and “Fables and Reflections”?
The monthly order was Distant Mirrors* >> Game of You >> Convergence, but Distant Mirrors and Convergence were collected into one volume as “Fables and Reflections” which follows “A Game of You”. Which order should we use?
Also, Is Jason Kuznicki reading sandman with us? He’d be perfect for “Thermidor”.
*Except for Ramadan, which was apparently delayed for more than a year do to art issues.
I’d prefer we do it as they’re found in the compilations. While it’s true that many of us have the original issues, most of us do not. The compilations are the best approximation of how most of us will be reading these stories.
Hey Alan, feel free to take “Midsummer” solo; more voices are always good and ppl may be sick of mine. I only grabbed them so JB wouldn’t be worried about being unexpectedly overwhelmed with a bunch of imminent unclaimed write ups.
I can still do “Calliope”.
I don’t know when we’ll get there, or where I’ll be at the time, but as a preliminary thing I’d be interested in Three Septembers and a January (Fables and Reflections Ch.2) and Hob’s Leviathan (Worlds’ End Ch. 4). I’m also open to doing Fear of Falling along with 3 Septembers and Cluracan’s Tale along with Hob’s Leviathan, if we want to do two chapters per week, but I’m not particularly attached to those if someone else wants to do them. And we could also do the same thing we did this week, with multiple contributors per week.
Yes, I’ve read ahead a good ways. I’m at the end of Worlds’ End naq V pna gryy jung unccrarq naq abj V qba’g yvxr Ze. Tnvzna. Fnqsnpr.
It occurs to me that, in order for me to talk about why I liked/picked #35 without spoilers, I should probably just take #36 (which, I believe, concludes “A Game of You”) unless someone else really wants it.
And Jaybird, if you’re in a pinch and can give me a few days’ warning, I’m happy to fill in wen needed. Just shoot me an e-mail at my Real.Name@Institution account.
And I assume you’ve still also got me down for “Ramadan”?
Yes, yes. I meant to put that in there. (Jeez, yesterday was awful all around.)