A quick Lol

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So, when I was taking a pic of my "almost complete" set of books for Instagram to celebrate the release, I played around with the new face features and did this. I'm overly proud of it for some reason.

Is Eugenides his real name?

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Ok, ok, I know we're all excited to discuss TaT, but I want to go back to some Thief 101. During my latest re∞read of the series, I started to wonder whether or not Gen was given the name Eugenides at birth, or if he adopted it later when he decided he wanted to be a thief and not a soldier...

I mean, how did his parents know to name him Eugenides without knowing first that he was going to grow up to be a Thief? His dad sure seemed to want him to be a soldier. Do they just randomly name a few people in a generation Eugenides in the hopes that ONE of them turns out to be a worthy Thief? In "The Thief" the Magus snidely tells Gen that the current Queen's Thief is named Eugenides, and Gen snaps back that they (thieves) are ALL named Eugenides after the god of thieves. I suspect he said this just to throw the Magus further off any suspicion that Gen was the same person as the Queen's Thief. Because, if there are so many people also named after the god of thieves, how come we haven't bumped into any other Eugenideses?

Attolia/Irene tells Nahuseresh at one point that the Queen's Thief of Eddis takes the name Eugenides as a sort of title as well as a name, so although this is non-Eddisian hearsay, I wonder if it's true....Did Gen take the name Eugenides as a new name as well as a new title when he declared he was going to be the Queen's Thief? WAIT, for that matter, what if the newest Queen's Thief is female? Does she go by Eugenidia?

What do you think? Am I overlooking some passage where Gen says specifically that he was given the name Eugenides at birth?

Thick As Thieves release day poem (belated)

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I gather aged_crone was calling for poems to celebrate the release of Thick As Thieves. So, I had a little conflab with a friend...
( NO spoilers but proceed at your own peril... )

Eugenides Steals Hearts

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http://www.heroesandheartbreakers.com/blogs/2017/05/megan-whalen-turner-eugenides-gen-love

mwt & Eugenides come in for some severe love over on the romance site [tor.com's romance sister site].

:)

MWT on The Big Idea

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From Greenwillow Books on twitter:

"Megan Whalen Turner & why she's not telling. (Shout-out to the Sounis community!)"

Read it here. (Contains mild spoilers for Thick as Thieves)