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Reading in Public – “Winter’s Tale” (part 4, chapter 6 – “Ex Machina”)

Onwards to the climax of “Winter’s Tale” – we’re down to the last four chapters. This chapter’s title is a play on the phrase “Deus...

Reading in Public – “Winter’s Tale” (part 4, chapter 4 – “The White Dog of Afghanistan”)

When we left off, Praeger de Pinto had just clinched the election for Mayor of New York. We pick up the story soon after, with...

Reading in Public – “Winter’s Tale” (part 4, chapter 3 – “White Horse and Dark Horse”)

We open right where we left off in the previous chapter, and we pay a visit to Athansor, still toiling away in his mill deep...

Reading in Public – “Winter’s Tale” (part 4, chapter 2 – “Battery Bridge”)

Before I go any further, I want to take a step back and follow up on something I mentioned at the end of the last...

Reading in Public – “Winter’s Tale” (part 4, chapter 1 – “A Very Short History of the Clouds”)

We’re into the home stretch now (although there’s still about 1/3 of the book to go – we’ve got some VERY long chapters coming up),...

Reading in Public – “Winter’s Tale” (part 3, chapter 6 – “The Machine Age”)

We’ve come to the end of Part Three, and quite a few questions are going to be answered. What’s the huge ship carrying? Who does...

Reading in Public – “Winter’s Tale” (part 3, chapter 5 – “An Early Summer Dinner at Petipas”)

This is a short chapter, with only one scene, and yet it’s hugely important. So without further ado, onwards! We join a group of Sun...

Reading in Public – “Winter’s Tale” (part 3, chapter 4 – “…and The Ghost”)

Onwards, with one more chapter of background, backstory and explanation. This one is a lot of fun – a dive deep into the mind of...

Reading in Public – “Winter’s Tale” (part 3, chapter 3 – “The Sun…”)

After the return of Peter Lake in the last chapter, we skip ahead a couple of months to the springtime – specifically May 15th, and...

Reading in Public – “Winter’s Tale” (part 3, chapter 2 – “Peter Lake Returns”)

The action of part 3 picks up, naturally in the midst of a brutal – yet beautiful – winter. It’s the first such winter after...

Reading in Public – “Winter’s Tale” (part 3, chapter 1 – “Nothing is Random”)

We’re onto part 3 of the book now, which is titled “The Sun…and the Ghost”. We’re a little past the halfway mark of the book,...

Reading in Public – “Winter’s Tale” (part 2, chapter 5 – “Hell Gate”)

We’re coming to the end of part 2, and our final new character. She’s a young woman by the name of Christiana Friebourg, and we...

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