Jul
16
Posted by : | On : July 16, 2002
The Reading Group organizer wasn’t able to attend this meeting since he had to be out of town on a business trip. When he got back to Austin and asked how the discussion went, he found that several people had attended the meeting at Jeff and Judy’s house but none of them remembered it. One person took notes but couldn’t recall why she wrote what she did. Just so there is some record of
Jul
02
Posted by : | On : July 2, 2002
Twelve people attended this discussion in person, and two others submitted comments by email. The topic of this meeting was The Bone Doll’s Twin, a recent fantasy novel by Lynn Flewelling. The complicated plot is hard to summarize, but it involves evil kings, wizards, prophecy, war, sexual confusion, and a haunted doll. Nine of us had read this book, and two had read prior works by Flewelling.
Several of us enjoyed this book a lot. We felt the author’s clean writing style led to a fast reading experience. The sword fighting sequences were fun. We liked the characters with moral ambiguity. One person felt the king’s moral dilemmas
