TaT Re-read Starts Today!

[ninedaysaqueen.livejournal.com]

We're re-read Thick as Thieves here on sounis this month to celebrate the first anniversary of its release. Click HERE for the reading schedule and more info on how you can participate.

This week we're reading CHAPTERS 1-3 (p1-85)* 85 pages total or approximately the first 2 hours and 10 minutes of the audio narration if you're listening.

Revist Kamet's aquaphobia, Costis speaking Mede like an over-sized child, Laela's deceptive pallor, escaping the Namreen on a slow moving river boat that's on fire, and Kamet as an apathetic caravan guard.

This particular re-read will be a little more interactive, as we're asking each participant to make their own post each week for discussing the book(s) rather then follow a lead. Feel free to also use the comment section of this post to discuss. If you don't have anything to say one particular week, just skip on to the next.

In case you wanted to revist the initial TaT discussions from 2017, you can find that HERE.

Happy reading!

*page numbers are from the 2017 hardcover edition.

Comments

Boating

[sclerotia.livejournal.com]

I have question for someone who knows more about boating than I. Why would it be perfectly natural for a small riverboat to go up river at night, but be practically unheard of for it to go down river at night?

RE: Boating

[drollittle.livejournal.com]

Maybe because going down river implies going out to sea and they usually wouldn’t start a journey at night?

Re: Boating

[ninedaysaqueen.livejournal.com]

I got the impression it was more of a city planning thing. Boats folliwing shipping lanes usually go a certain direction at a certain time to avoid bumping into one another. In this case, people going up river leave during the PM and people going down river leave during the AM.

Since Ianna-Ir is the capital city of the Mede Empire, it must have very busy waterways. From Kamet's commentary, the river seems to be their primary method of transporting goods in and out of the city and travel.

I lived next to a river most of my childhood, and I've never heard of any particular reason to not boat down river at night other then getting lost and bumping into other boats. :)

RE: Re: Boating

[sclerotia.livejournal.com]

Thank you. This seems logical, although personally I think they are nuts for traveling at night. Other boats may be lit and avoidable, but what about samdbars?

Re: Boating

[ninedaysaqueen.livejournal.com]

Ah, sandbars! I was thinking the same thing. However if the Ianna river is very deep, sandbars may not be a concern.

The part of the river I lived on was a few miles below a dam and therefore very low at times. There were tons of sandbars, but I'd still see people out there on boats at night with flashlights. Crazy people! XD Above the dam, where it was deeper, there weren't any sandbars, therefore it was much safer to boat at night.

BTW, on Lake Superior there's an infamous sandbar that has wrecked multiply ships that were trying to harbor at night. It's so easy to run into a sandbar in the dark!