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All the Crazy Stuff That Goes Down During SFF Eclipses
Eclipses are pretty darn cool even in real life, so it’s fitting that in science fiction and fantasy they get their due as legitimately monumental events. Dragon’s blood shed, the sapping of powers,...
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Reading the Wheel of Time: A Masked Plot in Robert Jordan’s The Great Hunt...
There is a challenge to writing the opening chapters of the second novel in a series. The early pages have to meet the expectations of those readers who loved the first installment and have been...
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Reading The Wheel of Time: Dragons and Amyrlins in Robert Jordan’s The Great...
Welcome to Week Two of The Great Hunt. We get some good world building this week, and a lot of running around Fal Dara. I enjoyed the way that these chapters did a lot of world building for Fal Dara,...
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Reading the Wheel of Time: Stones on a Board in Robert Jordan’s The Great...
Two packed chapters await us this week in the third installment of the Reading of The Great Hunt. We begin to see the machinations of Tar Valon, and how they are not nearly as united as the people...
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Reading the Wheel of Time: Literal Writing on the Wall in Robert Jordan’s The...
It’s been a while since I missed my stop on the subway because I was engrossed in a good book. If memory serves, it was almost 5 years ago, when I got caught up in the imagery of C.S. Lewis’s...
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Reading the Wheel of Time: Facing Fate on Your Feet in Robert Jordan’s The...
Last week I incorrectly labeled the post as Part 3 when in fact it was Part 4, which makes this Part 5 of the read of The Great Hunt. Somehow I can’t believe it’s been five weeks already! After how...
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Reading the Wheel of Time: Darkfriends and Dark Purposes in Robert Jordan’s...
Week 6 of reading The Great Hunt has been an interesting one, and although I have lots of musings and questions, I don’t have a lot of profound observations or a unifying theory for the section,...
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Reading the Wheel of Time: A Weaving of Themes in Robert Jordan’s The Great...
Hello hello, Wheel of Time fans! This week we’re tackling Chapters 11 and 12 of The Great Hunt. They have auspicious names too, “Glimmers of the Pattern” and “Woven in the Pattern,” but they are...
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Reading the Wheel of Time: Many Worlds, One Wheel in Robert Jordan’s The...
This week while I was reading the Wheel of Time, I learned that I didn’t understand the Schrödinger’s cat theorem as well as I thought it did. Granted, I am not really a math and science person, and...
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Reading the Wheel of Time: Two Faces of Temptation in Robert Jordan’s The...
I’m really loving my title for Week 9 of reading The Great Hunt. I also really loved the chapter titles for the this week’s section, Chapter 15 “Kinslayer” and Chapter 16 “In the Mirror of Darkness.” I...
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Reading the Wheel of Time: The Choice to Channel in Robert Jordan’s The Great...
I have a weird and frivolous complaint to start off week 10 of reading The Great Hunt. And that complaint is; why so many italics? And for that matter, why so many capitalizations? Generally species...
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Reading the Wheel of Time: Between Desire and Compulsion in Robert Jordan’s...
Welcome to week 11 of Reading The Great Hunt. Last time, I made an observation about Rand’s relationship with saidin* that lead to a lot of interesting observations from commenters. I made an...
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Reading the Wheel of Time: Cracks in the Wall in Robert Jordan’s The Great...
So it’s official friends: I totally ship Nynaeve and Lan. I was pretty much on board with it before now, despite being cross with Lan for his rather selfish handling of the situation. But if I was at...
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Reading the Wheel of Time: Nynaeve Confronts Her Fear in Robert Jordan’s The...
Halloween is fast approaching, so it feels appropriate that this week’s Reading The Great Hunt post is number thirteen. Since I was born on a Friday the 13th, I always enjoy the spooky dates, and...
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Reading The Wheel of Time: Dangerous Hierarchies in Robert Jordan’s The Great...
Welcome back to Reading The Great Hunt! This week Rand and Egwene both find themselves in a new society with new rules, and both of them are preparing to learn some possibly uncomfortable lessons. But...
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Reading the Wheel of Time: A Game of Trollocs in Robert Jordan’s The Great...
The strange thing about writing a recap of a chapter or story is that action sequences can result in a long recap but not necessarily a long analysis. Thus, it’s a slightly slower week in Reading The...
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Reading the Wheel of Time: The Theme of Return in Robert Jordan’s The Great...
Welcome back again to Week 16 of Reading The Great Hunt! There’s a huge amount of info in the chapters we’re covering this week (28 and 29) and a lot of it is difficult to understand, because our pov...
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Reading the Wheel of Time: A Shepherd is Growing Up in Robert Jordan’s The...
Despite a fire that almost takes Hurin’s life, the pacing of Chapters 30 and 31 of The Great Hunt have a slightly slower feel to them, perhaps because they aren’t packed quite as full of new...
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Reading The Wheel of Time: Suspecting Darkfriends in Robert Jordan’s The...
Woohoo, it’s Week 18! Spoiler alert, this week I become suspicious of Ingtar! Which I guess might be a big deal to y’all if I’m right, but just sort of amusing if I’m wrong. But either way, fun, right?...
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Reading The Wheel of Time: The Game of Gender in Robert Jordan’s The Great...
Welcome back to Thom being a total badass and some questionable gender relations in this week’s Reading the Wheel of Time. I’m not going to lie, I’m a little annoyed with the way the ladies in this...
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Reading the Wheel of Time: Many Worlds, One Fate in Robert Jordan’s The Great...
Welcome to Week Twenty of my read of The Great Hunt. This post means that the installment for The Great Hunt is now as long as the one for The Eye of the World was, and we still have a lot left to...
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Reading the Wheel of Time: The Truth You Hear in Robert Jordan’s The Great...
Despite having been given glimpses of Moiraine and the Amyrlin Seat’s secret plans back in Chapter Four of The Great Hunt, I think this week’s chapters have given me the best example of Aes Sedai...
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Reading the Wheel of Time: A Variety of Villains in Robert Jordan’s The Great...
Among the essential ingredients of any great fantasy series is the need for a varied assortment of interesting villains, and The Wheel of Time certainly doesn’t disappoint in that arena. Be it...
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Reading the Wheel of Time: What’s in a Name? Egwene the Damane in Robert...
This week in Reading the Wheel of Time, we cover Chapters 42 and 43 of The Great Hunt, in which Nynaeve is calculating and Elayne and Min do their best to keep up. Poor Egwene is either practical or...
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Reading the Wheel of Time: The Hubris of the Seanchan in Robert Jordan’s The...
It’s week 24 of my read of The Great Hunt, and so much happens in these two chapters (44 and 45) that I don’t know where to start. It’s fascinating to see all the strings being pulled together. Here...
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Reading the Wheel of Time: Despair and the Shadow in Robert Jordan’s The...
In The Eye of the World, when Moiraine learned of Ba’alzamon’s plan to find the Eye of the World, she remarked that the Pattern had brought all the threads together, first to let them know of the...
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Reading the Wheel of Time: Ba’alzamon’s Lies in Robert Jordan’s The Great...
Well, this is it, my friends: the big showdown chapter. The challenge of writing a recap for “The Grave is No Bar to My Call” is that it is so superbly written. A lot happens in a short space of words,...
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Reading the Wheel of Time: The Heron Names Him True in Robert Jordan’s The...
Welcome back to the Read of The Great Hunt! Today is the last day of The Wheel of Time’s second novel, and although the climax is over, there are still a few gaps to fill in, and a few choices left to...
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Reading The Wheel of Time: Ba’alzamon’s Secret Identity
It seems to be a standard of epic fantasy that all the important characters have a ton of names. I mean, it’s Aragorn’s fault, right? The guy spent so many years traveling incognito, and he picked up...
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Reading The Wheel of Time: Building Rand’s Identity through the Heron-Marked...
It came as quite a surprise to me when Rand’s heron-marked sword was destroyed during the climactic battle with Ba’alzamon at the end of The Great Hunt. The sword has been something of a talisman for...
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