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Violanthe
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PostTry this Opener! (08/16)

Posted: Thu Aug 16, 2007 8:36 am
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How does this opener strike you?

The first time Qynhelein Reoder remembered seeing the little boy was when she was just six years old. He appeared shortly after her mother died, and Qynh often wondered if her mind had somehow produced the apparition in response to the horror and shock of that terrible afternoon.

Qynh remembered lying on her back on a quilt beneath a towering cottonwood tree, with a trunk so large she could stand on one side and stretch her arms about it and her brother, Mahres, could stand likewise on the other side and they could not clasp hands with each other. They were on the banks of the Thiar River on a midsummer's afternoon: her father, Deog; mother, Evonne; Mahres and Qynh.



If you've never read this book, or had no clue where the opener comes from, then how does it strike you? If you had only this opener to go on, would you read more? Does it grab you and spur you to read on? Or does it leave you unenthusiastic?

If you read the book it came from, did you remember right away or did you have to look it up? What made it so memorable - or not so memorable?
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PostUm...

Posted: Tue Aug 28, 2007 9:42 pm
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I have no idea what this is or where it is going.

I'd read a bit more just in case, but I'm not hopeful...
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Posted: Thu Aug 30, 2007 3:22 pm
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Hmm... I tried googling this one, but I can't find what it is. I got it from somewhere but... where...?
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