I think that SRD uses Joan and the leprosarium as a backdrop to help us understand TC. I think that trying to analyze her is taking "dissection" to the cellular level, and basically not necessary, except to provide the background color. When I read these two chapters again, and I got to th...

Can't wait until we get further into the book and can talk about the Lords and Giants and Bloodguard! All of this debate is pretty exciting. I've loved these books since I was a teenager, and don't know many other people who like them. So I love this group reread and debate! :D Ahh, duquesa, I agre...

.. as an aside .. there's many a time I get a scratch and never use a bandaid .. never even occurs to me. If I had an open sore that was oozing some kind of gunk .. then admittedly I would go in search of a bandaid and some antiseptic .. but knocks and scratches happen all the time .. just a flesh ...

I think Donaldson wants to get us into the story as fast as possible, he gives us the minimum information we need to understand what Covenant had gone through. Maybe he didn't have any relatives, maybe his close freinds abandoned him as Joan did, Donaldson just didn't think it was worth mentioning....

Does this mean we will start with Chapter 1, First Chronicles on Friday the 4th of Oct?