Briar's Book - reread
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Started rereading Briar's Book by Tamora Pierce.
I love this series, and I've lost count of how many times I've read it--heck, I own 3 copies, if you count paper, ebook, and audio book as separate copies.
It's been a while since I reread Briar's Book, and it's hitting differently. Briar and his friends are there for the early stages of an epidemic and assist personally in developing a magical treatment for it, and... It hits different. I was actually getting emotional, and we only just met patient 0. I can only wait and see how it goes when I actually hit the epidemic parts of it.
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12/10 - in the book, they have a building ready and waiting in case there is a need to send people into quarantine when a new disease arises. They have supplies and protocols. They have masks and gloves waiting (although if I recall correctly, they run out as the disease spreads) ._.
also, I adore this series because of the found family & diversity
- Something I find interesting is how close together the parts I remember seem to be in this early section. We just hit the part where Lark chides Tris for angrily saying, 'the poor breed disease.' Since I was reasonably young when I read this book the first time, I think Lark's 'if they could afford nice places to live, healthful food, and expensive medical treatment they wouldn't be the poor,' speech was one of the first "voices" I'd heard about such things.
- ha, Briar just made an observation about the boredom of being lucky enough to be healthy in quarantine. yep
12/11 - Finished. It's interesting to me how well the book partitions what the kids know & suspect & intuit from what they're told and what they Know-know. Because they are canny, and they've been through some shit, and they know enough to pay attention but there are still things the adults around them don't tell them outright out of concern for them. And I think it holds up well, both from my recollections as a kid reading these books and now as an adult reading them again. I continue to be warmed by the compassion at the heart of this series.
Later, at the end of Will of the Empress, they find Briar having recreated the roof of Discipline cottage as a kind of mental haven. He invites his sisters to inhabit the space too. I didn't really know what to make of it at the time--I liked it but that scene didn't really resonate with any part of me--but now I'm thinking about the series / universe as a whole and it's resonating.
Also, a belated happy Feast Day of Saint Magnolia, patron of small graces and outright distractions. She has been my pandemic saint, and I am very grateful for her blessings.
Started rereading Briar's Book by Tamora Pierce.
I love this series, and I've lost count of how many times I've read it--heck, I own 3 copies, if you count paper, ebook, and audio book as separate copies.
It's been a while since I reread Briar's Book, and it's hitting differently. Briar and his friends are there for the early stages of an epidemic and assist personally in developing a magical treatment for it, and... It hits different. I was actually getting emotional, and we only just met patient 0. I can only wait and see how it goes when I actually hit the epidemic parts of it.
--
12/10 - in the book, they have a building ready and waiting in case there is a need to send people into quarantine when a new disease arises. They have supplies and protocols. They have masks and gloves waiting (although if I recall correctly, they run out as the disease spreads) ._.
also, I adore this series because of the found family & diversity
- Something I find interesting is how close together the parts I remember seem to be in this early section. We just hit the part where Lark chides Tris for angrily saying, 'the poor breed disease.' Since I was reasonably young when I read this book the first time, I think Lark's 'if they could afford nice places to live, healthful food, and expensive medical treatment they wouldn't be the poor,' speech was one of the first "voices" I'd heard about such things.
- ha, Briar just made an observation about the boredom of being lucky enough to be healthy in quarantine. yep
12/11 - Finished. It's interesting to me how well the book partitions what the kids know & suspect & intuit from what they're told and what they Know-know. Because they are canny, and they've been through some shit, and they know enough to pay attention but there are still things the adults around them don't tell them outright out of concern for them. And I think it holds up well, both from my recollections as a kid reading these books and now as an adult reading them again. I continue to be warmed by the compassion at the heart of this series.
Later, at the end of Will of the Empress, they find Briar having recreated the roof of Discipline cottage as a kind of mental haven. He invites his sisters to inhabit the space too. I didn't really know what to make of it at the time--I liked it but that scene didn't really resonate with any part of me--but now I'm thinking about the series / universe as a whole and it's resonating.
Also, a belated happy Feast Day of Saint Magnolia, patron of small graces and outright distractions. She has been my pandemic saint, and I am very grateful for her blessings.
