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Yes, I had forgotten about that.
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Keep in mind the question are there to spur on discussion, so there may be many good interpretations. In the first part I was meaning to ask in it was inevitable that the Jesuit mission ended in flames, that the Jesuits would be brutally murdered b…
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I also didn't realize both groups were Iroquoian. I had assumed the Hurons were Algonquin. Which tribes, perhaps strangely since they occupied Southern Ontario, don't make much of an appearance in this book. Gosling is, I think Ojibwe from further n…
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I'm talking about a hypothetical person, and since I was comparing it to 'easterners' and 'orientals' (which are only eastern or oriental from a 'western' perspective) I put it in quotes. The term 'native' lumps a whole lot of different people toget…
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I'll work on putting the questions up on Friday.
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No I didn't. I just pointed out these things aren't unique to the black community.
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Well, I'm glad to hear that 'white people' isn't one of the reasons, anyway. Most of these reasons can be applied to any group. Why don't bankers play RPGs? 1. They don't know about them. 2. They aren't interested in them. 3. Banking culture doesn'…
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Great, thanks Richard!
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Ok, np - lots of time still left in the month. Are you reading this one, @BarnerCobblewood ?
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No change. My mistake. My thoughts: Thematically, I like it. Kind of like Napoleonic naval fiction, but on airships - and I like both of those. Will it stand up to the high standards set by O’Brien, Woodman, Kent, and Forester in that genre? …
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How is everyone doing with this book, btw? Neil, Richard, and I all finished it. Anyone else still reading it?
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So is The Guns Above by Robin Bennis what we're doing for May?
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In The Orenda, three islands are mentioned toward the end, the largest of which is now named Christian Island, so that puts the action somewhere between Tiny Township and Midland Ontario.
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I’m pretty sure Hiero travelled from Manitoba (he was somehow descended or associated with the Metis) around the north edge of Lakes Superior and Huron/Georgian bay. I remember Manitoulin island being referred to, and maybe that’s where he fought an…
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I think the author assumed a Canadian level of familiarity. As someone who grew up in Montreal and lived in Ontario for the second period of his life, the geography is somewhat plain to me. To give some geographical context. The Wendat land, We…
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Snow Falls also also says several times that there were places in the palisade where someone could slip through. I think this palisade would stop may arrows, likely not all. There’s another Iroquoian village at Crawford Lake, Ontario, and the constr…
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In the story, they also visit Quebec, shortly before the death of Samuel de Champlain in 1635. Champlain founded the permanent French colony of Quebec in 1608. Before that, his base had been at an earlier French trading fort called Port Royal, which…
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As we're reading (or thinking back on the read) I thought I'd post a few photos of some re-created historic settlements. This first batch is from Tsiionhiakwatha Archaeological Site near St. Anicet, Quebec, on the south side of the St Lawrence rive…
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I can order Five Decembers as a hardback, so I'm OK if you want to proceed for February.
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Hmmm. Good to know.
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I have no issue with quality musicianship, and I like that prog bands experimented and made long, variable songs. But even so, I like them to still be melodic and, you know, hummable. A lot of, for example, King Crimson’s driving metal work doesn’t …
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This is just to remind folks we'll be discussing The Orenda by Joseph Boyden at the end of the month.
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Could it get your name in The Guiness Book of World Records? I also had a major musical project, which was to listen to every obscure 70’s Progressive Rock album I could find. This amounted to over 1000 albums, not just from the 70’s and not just…
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Happy New Year to everyone, Here's a stock of what I what I read this year, and what I purchased for reading in future years. This year I managed to set a new record for both the number of books (85 books) which beats my old record by a whopping 13…
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Speaking of Lancasters, if you guys want to come and visit me we can organize a group ride in a Lancaster: https://www.warplane.com/aircraft/flights/buy.aspx
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Yes, I also enjoyed it very much. I thought it was a much more successful novel than The Gradual, with it’s nonsensical adepts. Sure, not much is explained in The Adjacent, but at least in a broad sense it is explainable as a million spheres type se…
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Makes sense! Though I'm not sure he's playing with us, so much as just giving us variations on Florence. I suppose they're all named after the city in their respective languages? It would be like using James, Diego, and Hamish. Not sure this can be …
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That reminds me - there's an H.G. Wells book The War In The Air I've been meaning to read.
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Yes, quite a long section - about a third of the book. And it'd divided into three parts. Each part is given a name, which corresponds to a patois meaning for Prachous. The first part is FENCE. You are quite correct about the schizophrenic nature o…
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Actually I was confusing it with Foundry. There’s also Fantasy Grounds, and some people use Discord for online gaming. But as it turns out the platform we’re going to use is Roll20. Lawrence tells me “ It’s easy to use, is a lot better for disp…