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Here we are -- the last discussion post! Thanks to everybody who's been reading along and joining in the discussions. It's been fun to read this while having people to talk to. :)

( Summary and discussion -- spoilers under the cut )

All comments welcome -- for the whole series. How did it work? Lingering thoughts or questions?

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Past discussion posts:

• Beguilement, ch 1-3 | ch 4-11 | ch 12-19
  
• Legacy, ch 1-9 | ch 10-19
  
• Passage, ch 1-12 | ch 13-24
  
• Horizon, ch 1-11

A Sharing Knife fic for the 2012 Ficathon at bujold_fic. Spoilers for Passage (Book 3).

The Worth of Water (1040 words, PG | Passage)
Berry considers what the river found in Alder, and what it found in Whit.

[For a prompt by katyhasclogs, which I won't repeat here because it's also spoilery for books 3 and 4 -- and some of my f-list may still be reading the series! ;)]

( Berry poked at the sea foam with one bare toe. )
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Life continues to imitate art, as today I'm traveling south toward the general vicinity of what's most likely the model for Graymouth. We're not going quite that far, though, and in fact aren't quite close enough to the actual Mississippi River (although I did see it when the plane was landing!). So you've escaped a picspam this time. ;)

( Summary and discussion -- spoilers under the cut )

It will probably be next Tuesday before I can put up the discussion post for the second half of Passage, since on Monday we'll be traveling once again (on our way home). Although, I may surprise myself and be efficient. ;)

By the way -- they're having another Ficathon right now at bujold_fic, and Sharing Knife prompts and fic are fair game! Can we get something going for this fandom over there? I'll be pondering prompts...

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Past discussion posts:

• Beguilement, ch 1-3 | ch 4-11 | ch 12-19
  
• Legacy, ch 1-9 | ch 10-19

Welcome to the special Lakewalker edition of our TSK discussion group! I am posting from a small lake at roughly the latitude of Dag's Hickory Lake, and the water is indeed a bit murky, but the sixteen (!) of us gathered here in two tents lake houses do not yet smell green. Possibly because we have a shower that is fed by the city water system. I have not yet been out in a narrow boat, though I plan to if the wind dies down a little, but there has been lots of swimming and floating. On the other hand, no plunkin, (un?)fortunately, has graced our dinner table...

( Summary and discussion -- spoilers under the cut )

Next Monday (or Monday-ish, as I might be on the road on Monday), I'll put up a post for the second half of Legacy, chapters 10-19.

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Past discussion posts:

• Beguilement, ch 1-3 | ch 4-11 | ch 12-19

My flight was late getting back last night, so I don't have a fancy discussion post ready to go yet! But I did want to post something before everybody in the UK went to bed. So I'll put this here now in bare-bones form, and maybe come back later this evening to fix up the little chapter synopses. ;)

( Summary and discussion -- spoilers under the cut )

Thoughts? Reactions?

Next Monday I'll put up a post for the remainder of Book 1, and then after that (if anyone is still around, heh) we can start on Book 2. :)
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The poll about book discussions for the Sharing Knife series was pretty evenly split between votes for one discussion per book and one discussion for every few chapters. So here's what I'm thinking: Because some people may still be waiting for their book orders to arrive, let's start things off on Monday with a discussion for Ch 1-3 of Beguilement.[*] But the chapters are somewhat shorter than I was thinking when I made that poll (didn't have the books on hand), and some people wanted to read faster than three chapters per week. So for the next post (on or around Monday, July 9), maybe we could try covering something on the order of 5 chapters, and see how that goes.

[*]Now that I have my copy of Beguilement to check, I see that the end of Ch 3 turns out to be an evil cliffhanger. I bet no one will actually stop there, lol.

Also, instead of spending my Friday night working on my conference talk for next week(!!), I spent it making icons. If anyone would like to grab some Sharing Knife icons, help yourself. :) (Non-spoilery.)
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It looks like there are a few people who are interested in a read-along of the Sharing Knife series!

I'm not quite sure what the best way is to do this. A super-organized person would probably post one discussion post per chapter, lol, but I'm not that organized. (Besides, doesn't that make it feel more like homework?) And it sounds like people could use a little time to find the books and read. So...

( ...a poll. )

Read-alongers, let me know what you think!

For the record, I have started reading and am enjoying the series muchly. To the tune of staying up a little too late reading once or twice. ;)
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