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ninedaysaqueen.livejournal.com

This is the final week for The Queen of Attolia!

QoA Section One
QoA Section Two
QoA Section Three

Thanks to the leads and everyone who has participated in the read-along so far. You're all doing a great job!

Next week is a break week, which will give anyone who's fallen behind on their reading or discussing time to catch up. Therefor this Sunday, March 19th, there will be a live chat held in the Conspiracy Room, where we can further dicuss QoA or speculate about TaT or just squee randomly.

The chat will start at...

5pm Pacific Time

6pm Mountain Time

7pm Central Time

8pm Eastern Time

If your timezone does not appear here, please check the World Clock.

The password for the Conspiracy Room is HERE. You must be a member of the community to use the chat room. This is the first of three pre-release chats. The others will be held at the same time April 16th and May 14th. I will also have to schedule a few post-release Conspiracy Room chats for discussing TaT closer to the release date.

The read-along will continue March 26th with KoA section one (chapters 1-5) lead by

live_momma. If you're just joining us, the read-along schedule is HERE.

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pendrecarc.livejournal.com

Many thanks to

ninedaysaqueen for organizing this!

This is the third discussion for Queen of Attolia. The first section is here, and the second is here.

These discussions are spoiler free for the new short stories, “The Wine Shop” and “The Knife Dance,” as well as the Thick as Thieves arc.

There will be spoilers for books 1-4, so if you haven’t read all the published books yet, proceed with caution.

Next week is a break week with a chat on March 19th.

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I'm going to structure this a little differently, with a very brief (and irreverent) summary under the cut and discussion topics in comments to this post. If you want to start new comment threads with completely different topics, please do!

Section three runs from Chapter 15, which begins "Attolia turned to look at him, where he kneeled watching her face," and Chapter 21, which ends, "And she believed him."

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checkers65477.livejournal.com

I was looking for some quotes for a project I'm working on and came across this:

“Where there's life there's hope.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit

What do you all think? I've seen this line in other books but have never been able to come across where it originated.

freenarnian.livejournal.com

Today at Barnes & Noble...

Seeing these beauties in person has officially won me over to the new covers! Pretty sure this one’s my favorite.

(Shout-out to Checkers for inspiring the userpic.)

live-momma.livejournal.com

If you haven't already, check out last week's discussion of QoA Section One (chapters 1-8) lead by

ninedaysaqueen.

This week we’re reading from the beginning of Chapter 9, "The hunting retreat was a summer home..." through the end of Chapter 14, "...and ran back down the rampart stairs even faster than he had climbed them."

Chapters 9-14 of The Queen of Attolia

These discussions are spoiler free for the new short stories, “The Wine Shop” and “The Knife Dance,” as well as the “Thick as Thieves” arc.

There will be spoilers for books 1-4, so if you haven’t read all the published books yet, proceed with caution.

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"My Queen?"

"Only for that."

Next week we will continue with QoA chapters 15-21 lead by

pendrecarc!

Current Music: Ellie Goulding - Lights

checkers65477.livejournal.com

Hey, everyone, if you use social media please post a link to our community reread of Chapters 1-8 of the Queen of Attolia. Invite them to join in the fun! Here's a link to the discussion: http://sounis.livejournal.com/684877.html

ninedaysaqueen.livejournal.com

This week we’re reading from, “He was asleep, but woke at the sound of the key turning in the lock.” To “‘He sighed inwardly.”

Chapters 1-8 of QoA.

These discussions are spoiler free for the new short stories, “The Wine Shop” and “The Knife Dance,” as well as the “Thick as Thieves” arc.

There may be spoilers for books 1-4, so if you haven’t read all the published books yet, proceed with caution.

( Long Post is Long )

ninedaysaqueen.livejournal.com

Thanks to everyone who's volunteered so far! With the deadline for sign-ups fast approaching (February 12th), I'm still in need of at least two more people to help lead discussions.

If you're unfamilar with the community wide re-read and discussion to celebrate the release of "Thick as Thieves" (starting February 26th and concluding May 14th), please read all about it HERE. We're starting with "The Queen of Attolia" having just done a read-along for "The Thief" in September. If you didn't get a chance to participate back in September, there's no time like the present!
Chapters 1-3 - Chapters 4-6 - Chapters 7-9 - Chapters 10-12.

These discussions will be spoiler free for "Thick as Thieves" as well as the new short stories, "Wine Shop" and "Knife Dance."

If you're just participating in the read-along, no sign-ups are required. Just bring your lovley reprobatish selves!

What does it mean to volunteer as a discussion lead and how do I sign up?

If you sign up, you will be responsible for opening discussions the start of your week, which will be a Sunday. It would be preferable if the opening post is up by Saturday (the day before your week starts), but the official due date is midnight on Sunday, the first day of your week. You're free to make your post as elborate as you like or keep it simply with just a few topics and observations to get things going. It would also be best if you’re available during your week to respond to comments and foster discussion, but that’s not absolutely necessary.

Sign up by emailing me at ninedaysaqueenmod@gmail.com or comment if you have any questions. Please, title your email QT read-along.

I will need-

Your Livejournal username.

Which section or book you’d prefer. (This helps me make decisions.)

If there are any sections you absolutely cannot take because of a RL scheduling conflict.

Whether or not you’d like to be a pinch-hitter, if someone cannot get their post done on time.

The deadline to sign-up is this Sunday, February 12th. Official assignments along with further instructions will be emailed to all volunteers the following Monday or Tuesday. This should give everyone plenty of time to prepare thier post.

Please, consider signing up if you have any time to spare during these weeks. PLEAAASSSEE!

Spread the word about the read-along!

ninedaysaqueen.livejournal.com

Back in September, we re-read “The Thief” as a celebration of its twentieth anniversary and held weekly discussions in order to once again carefully dissect each and every sentence. You have no idea the details you can miss till you’ve gone over the text with a microscope!

Check those out if you missed them.

Since “Thick as Thieves” was announced, I've been plotting to continue the re-read with “The Queen of Attolia" and the other two books. I’m guessing, like me, many of you are due for a re-read, and it’s a lot more fun to re-read together.

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mouseguru.livejournal.com

Hello Sounis members!

I have read this journal since the last book came out - I didn't know any fellow fans in real life and had so many questions and things I wanted to think about after reading it that I went searching online for fans and found this wonderful site. The discussion here helped me so much - I swear I missed at least a third of what was going on the first time round! I also owe this group a huge debt for recommending the Vorkosigan saga - I found them through you and love them almost as much as this series!

My user name of mouseguru is because before having kids I worked in a lab with transgenic mice:) Despite being a science type, I love to read and happily ignore my housework whenever I find a good book. I have four kids who are my full-time job :)

I am lucky enough to have a 16 year old daughter (who was a toddler and my only child when I first encountered these books!)who recently became obsessed with these books, so we've been reading and re-reading and talking about them for the last month or so. Added to the excitement of the news of the new book, I was inspired to jump in and join the discussion here. Anyway, we came up with a question for pondering that I don't think I've seen here yet. I don't think we can figure out the answer, just wondered what ideas other fans might have.

While rereading QoA, I noticed this statement from Nahuseresh, speaking of how Attolia secured her throne with brilliant tactics from "an advisor, probably the Baron Oronus, or Erondites's father." I thought it was interesting that he sees Erondites's father as a candidate for one of Attolia's closest early advisors, when the current baron is her greatest enemy. Could the father, after initially supporting Attolia, have become one of those early traitors that was executed horribly as a deterrent, thereby earning the current baron's enmity? Or do you think it's more likely that the current baron is just power-hungry with no particular personal anti-Attolia feelings?

Thanks for all the reading pleasure you all have given me over the years!

checkers65477.livejournal.com

This is cool -- QoA has recently been translated into Persian for sale in Iran.

http://www.tehrantimes.com/news/403798/The-Queen-of-Attolia-comes-to-Iranian-bookstores

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jessre.livejournal.com

After years of watching my eyes turn into hearts at the mention of The Queen's Thief series, my friends have decided to read the books for themselves. We've decided to do a readalong starting in March. One month per book.

Some of us (okay, I) have read the books forward and backwards; others are completely new to the world. I'd love for you to join us, and maybe if you've got a hold-out family member or friend this might convince them to meet Gen?

The formal announcement post is here: https://thebookwars.wordpress.com/2016/02/11/announcing-the-queens-thief-readalong/

Anyway, I hope to hear your voices in the discussions, and also hope to send a few people this way to join Sounis once they've fallen for Gen et al.

stealingfiction.livejournal.com

So I remember a while back someone made a really nice, detailed post about the ages of the characters. It went along the lines of Eugenides was 16 when the events of The Thief occurred, which made Eddis Helen 21, and Attolia Irene would be a couple years older (probably). I assume that there's a gap between TT and TQOA of maybe a year or so, because Eugenides is a little more mature, even before he got his hand cut off.

ANYWAY, I was reading a passage from TQOA earlier, and it said:
"For two years he had been trying to build his defenses against her..."
Two years. Does that refer to the beginning of TQOA? After all that would make sense, considering how much they talked about the harvest in the differing seasons.

So that would mean that the events so far took place like so:
The Thief: a month or two (don't have my copy on hand, I lent it out. Yay!)
intermission of about a year
The Queen of Attolia: happened over two and a half years
The King of Attolia: took 3 or more months
Because of the part where Irene and Gen are talking about how he promised her the fall of Erondites in six months, but achieved it in 98 days.
As for TCOK, we know that the first half of Sophos's story happened during TKOA, and I think the latter half would probably happen directly after TKOA. Again, I lent my copy :(

But I honestly haven't done more than a little research, and this is really just to find out how you all feel about the timeline and such. Also, does anyone know where the names of Eddis, Attolia, and Sounis came from? All the names MWT uses are really interesting and I know there are often meanings to her selection (because she's awesome like that).

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Current Location: A sunny isle ( I wish!)
Current Music: Hallelujah- Jeff Buckley

puppeteergirl.livejournal.com

I had so much fun during the character chat, that I thought it was worth it to pay ten bucks in order to save the full transcript. I do think it's a pretty sneaky way for Chatzy to get money. Honestly, it is better than ads though. Can you imagine being forced to watch a commercial for toilet paper before you are allowed to enter the chat room? Bleh.

Anyway, Livejournal won't let me paste the chat directly into this post, saying that it is too large. So I made a google doc and changed the settings so that anyone can see it, google doc users or not. Let me know if you can't access the link. There is a fun surprise ending (some of you are already aware of it though.)

https://docs.google.com/document/d/11FEcHJTQPypnEUKvbNHG6Qxb-8LOlszWkzTYTfjqK_4/edit?usp=sharing

furem.livejournal.com

"No one was going to start a war over me, and I could be tremendously useful...." Thief, chapter 11.

"'You started a war in my name without telling me?' he asked." Queen, 7.

and,

"'I thought that if I went away to study, I could come back in a few years and be...useful.'" Queen, 6.

"He...made no sound, only breathed in sharply and didn't let the breath go." Queen, 3.

"...The king took a deeper breath and didn't let it go." King, 8.*

"He warned me that if I set a foot on the floor, he'd cut it off. I said that I thought the followers of Asklepios took an oath to do harm to no one. He said he'd make an exception for me." Thief, 12.

"'Do you imagine I am going to pour a cup of lethium down your throat and let you go?' Galen asked finally.
'I'd appreciate it,' Eugenides said.
'I took an oath to heal people.'" Queen, 4.

What are some of your favorite book-to-book comparisons?

*I have a theory that this comparison is why Irene faints in that scene. It brings up...unpleasant memories.

frosted-feather.livejournal.com

Ready for another archaic analogy? You know how Beowulf and other ancient stories will take random tangents to talk about other people that no one cares about? Well, I was reading Beowulf and came across this little side story. When Beowulf returns home victorious, the queen of the Geats is introduced, and the poem pauses to contrast her favorably against another Ice Queen who was quite cruel. As a fan of the Attolia books, this story becomes a whole lot more interesting:( Read more... )

furem.livejournal.com

So, I was rereading QoA because~~there isn't a new book, hint hint~~ I like to torture myself, and I came across this passage, right at the beginning of chapter 15:
"The greatest change in him was not his height, nor the length of his hair, but the expression on his face. He looked at her as impassively as she knew she looked at him. She could feel the immobile mask of her own face. She thought that if she searched for the guardsman Teleus had sent to escort her, she would find him nearby, not unconscious, not bound and gagged, but dead."

And I realized that it never says if they do find that guard tied up or dead. I know Gen still doesn't like to kill people because in KoA he says:
"I thought being king meant I didn't have to kill people myself. I see now that this was another misconception."

What do you think? Was that an act or is the guard really dead? I kind of wonder if he wasn't giving Irene a taste of her own medicine considering how heartless she is to his pleas at the beginning of the book.

mollyringle.livejournal.com

Hello all! Newbie around here. Finished all four books lately, loved them, and am overjoyed there's a community for fellow fans. I'm finally daring to post, but only with the most inconsequential of questions.

I was thinking of the remark "What luck you have" at the time of a certain stolen kiss, and wanted to ask your opinions on its meaning.

When I read it, I assumed it meant, "Well, aren't you lucky, having an army come unexpectedly to rescue you," which it certainly could mean. But lately it occurred to me that it could mean, "I'll take whatever luck a stolen kiss from you could give me, thanks," in the manner of a knight getting a kiss or a flower or such from his lady before going off to combat. Either way, of course our speaker meant it with some irony. :)

But which do you suppose it was?

booksrgood4u.livejournal.com

Hey Sounis!

It's time to sign Megan's birthday card! Her birthday is tomorrow, but the card is going up a day early so everyone has a chance to sign. So, without further ado, everyone line up and sign the card, and no one steal the pen.....I'm talking to you, Eugenides!

( Open the Card..... )

elle-winters.livejournal.com

I might be late to the party but did ya'll read this article someone wrote??

I just feel like we need to talk about

Here's the link: http://www.newstatesman.com/culture/2013/08/i-hate-strong-female-characters

And here are some quotes...

"Sherlock Holmes gets to be brilliant, solitary, abrasive, Bohemian, whimsical, brave, sad, manipulative, neurotic, vain, untidy, fastidious, artistic, courteous, rude, a polymath genius. Female characters get to be Strong."

“Of course, normalwomen are weak and boring and can’t do anything worthwhile. But this one is different. She is strong! See, she roundhouses people in the face.”

Can we just talk about this, please? I'm not going to to lie and say I didn't notice this either. The 'strong' female character is usually super strong, knows kung fu and yet has perfect hair. Like in what world is that fair? Sure she's no longer damsel in distress but, really? How is this anymore realistic?

And then I couldn't help but think of ATTOLIA. She's drop dead (almost literally) gorgeous but I just can't see her drop kicking anyone...instead she's quiet and calculating smart, she makes sacrifices but doesn't flaunt them. And while, yes, somethings she's done are pretty down right crazy and extreme, her overall personality is more real. Quiet is her unmatchable strength and at the same time (through Gen) we see that she is very human and vulnerable.

Eddis on the other-hand definitely has the kung fu down, but I can't imagine Eddis being the "strong & sexy" character. More like "Strong and sensible" Ag

And this is why I love this series so much. Does anyone feel the same?? Or different?

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