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: Seanan McGuire (seanan_mcguire) wrote,
2011-09-07 10:03:00

Seanan McGuire
seanan_mcguire
2011-09-07 10:03:00

Mood: awake
Music: Glee, "Run, Joey, Run."

ONE SALT SEA open thread!

To celebrate the release of One Salt Sea, here. Have an open thread to discuss the book.

THERE WILL BE SPOILERS.

Seriously. If anyone comments here at all, THERE WILL BE SPOILERS. So please don't read and then yell at me because you encountered spoilers. You were warned.

You can also start a book discussion at my website forums, with less need to be concerned that I will see everything you say! In case you wanted, you know, discussion free of authorial influence.

Have fun!

Tags: one salt sea, toby daye

mariadkins

September 8 2011, 21:01:43 UTC 5 years ago

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Did the rocks say they cried when the towers fell?

I'm sitting here bawling.

seanan_mcguire

September 8 2011, 21:04:58 UTC 5 years ago

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mariadkins

September 9 2011, 14:05:00 UTC 5 years ago

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well i have to admit i've been hormonal all week. too, i've been watching 9/11 documentaries off and on all week, even though i probably shouldn't be. all they do is make me upset. even though i know that's not what the sea witch meant by that comment - i know she meant something else - that's where my heart went at the time. i stopped reading and made myself get myself together and went back and read that section again, and once again knew that's not what she meant.

seanan_mcguire

September 9 2011, 14:11:55 UTC 5 years ago

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I have honestly no idea what you're talking about.

ladymondegreen

September 9 2011, 17:54:41 UTC 5 years ago

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From what I'm reading here, she's relating the quote above to the fact that the 10th anniversary of the bombing of the World Trade Center is on Sunday. Hence 'the towers' echo oddly for people who are thinking of current events.

Clearly that's not the context in the novel, but I can certainly see how it would trigger that image, especially with the level of media bombardment we're seeing with the upcoming anniversary.

seanan_mcguire

September 10 2011, 15:37:04 UTC 5 years ago

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Lovely. Now I want to rewrite the entire history of Toby's Bay Area because people are thinking that. And I can't.

ladymondegreen

September 11 2011, 01:35:02 UTC 5 years ago

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*hugs you*

I suspect a lot of people also thought of the Tower card from Tarot, or the Tower of Babel. It's all personal filter. What you mean by it and what they carry away is always going to depend on who is reading and when. Art helps people process. That you're creating art strong enough to support all those emotions is the important thing. You're making passages of comfort reading for people, and that's invaluable, and I suspect they're grateful.

briargrey

September 12 2011, 15:42:57 UTC 5 years ago

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If it makes you feel better, I didn't get what she meant at first, then I did, but I certainly never ever would have gone that direction myself, and I personally think that the books make it clear that that is not what is meant. Not discounting that some may choose to interpret it that way, just that I felt it was clear it wasn't (and I never even remotely THOUGHT of the twin towers in relation to it). So no need to change!