Chat Tonight!

[ninedaysaqueen.livejournal.com]

Thick as Thieves comes out in just a few short days and if you need to get some fangirl/fanboy squees out of your system, stop by the Conspiracy Room tonight for a live chat.

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We'll be having virtual calzone this time, which is just like pizza but better. Stop by while it's still hot!



Happy TaT week!

Is MWT brilliant or what?

[readsintrees.livejournal.com]

I'm re∞reading the series in preparation for reading book 5, and as always I keep finding little clues here and there that should have TOLD us some of the twists.

I just noticed this one in QoA. You know how Eugenides and friends sneak a bunch of cannon down the river bed in order to flush the queen out of Ephrata? And how we find out later (and through hints earlier on) that the cannon were made out of wood and that's how they were able to get them down so easily? Yeah yeah, look at THIS. MWT tells us right at the first mention of them that they're wooden, with a sneakily absent Oxford comma:



At first read, it seems like a simple list and we were all like, "Wooo, cannon! Bringing out the big guns!"

But no, no! If that were the case it should read, "Those in the rear struggled with block and tackle, roughly squared wooden beams, wooden carriages, and cannon."

But by leaving out that last comma, she's basically shouting that these are wooden carriages and WOODEN cannon. I double checked; throughout the rest of the book she uses an Oxford comma as usual when listing things, so this was definitely deliberate.

Then of course, there's other little/obvious hints through the rest of the trip, but my mind is just blown that she told us right out the gate that the cannon were wooden, and I never noticed this particular tiny clue before.

This amount of genius must be exhausting.

Queen's Thief Personalities

[an-english-girl.livejournal.com]

After considering Gen as an introvert in the QoA read-along, with regards to the Winter of Whining/Healing, I thought it might be fun to pass the last two days before Thick As Thieves by assessing the Myers-Briggs Personality Types for all four monarchs.

I know: I have a weird sense of fun. If you haven’t, don’t click the link XD

( In which four fictional characters are taken (apart) far too seriously... )

Megan Whalen Turner in San Diego Mysterious Galaxy on Thursday May 18th at 7:30

[tom beifuss]

I was reading the "Books" section today in the "San Diego Union-Tribune" to see if anyone I recognized would be in San Diego this week. Usually there isn't. Today I saw that on Thursday May 18th, Megan Whalen Turner will be at the Mysterious Galaxy bookstore for an Epic Reads Meet and Greet at 7:30 (along with Kimberly McCreight, Julia Murphy, and Evelyn Skye).

5943 Balboa Avenue, San Diego. (858) 454-0347

For some reason I don't see the specific authors listed on the bookstore website though - just that there is a Meet and Greet at 7:00
- http://www.mystgalaxy.com/event