My last Outlander post for 2016! First, I would like to thank everybody who read my posts. I am in the process of writing two more Outlander posts that will be published in the first week of January 2017. Today’s post will be highly speculative and thought-provoking. First, this post is related to another one – Symbolism […]
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Outlander: Rereading Voyager – Second Sight, the Hidden Laird and More
– – – – -Spoiler Alert – – – – – This post will concentrate mainly on chapters 4 and 5, and it is not a summary of them. It is about some hints and quotations that I consider significant. Brianna’s Second Sight Voyager reveals one of the gifts that Brianna inherited from Jamie, the […]
Continue readingOutlander: Rereading Voyager – Claire and Frank Part 1
———- SPOILER ALERT ——– This post will concentrate mainly on Chapter 2, and the first memory that Claire has about Frank in Voyager. The main reason for this post is the fact that Frank and Claire lived together for twenty years. Therefore, his conceptions and opinions play a major role in his relationship with both Claire […]
Continue readingOutlander: Rereading Voyager – Chapter 1
I am currently writing several Outlander posts. Of course, I will be writing about Frank in subsequent posts. This short post is only about the first chapter of Voyager. Thanks for reading! Memory Lapses Chapter 1 opens with the events after the Battle of Culloden. The reader for the first time in the series experiences […]
Continue readingOutlander: Rereading Voyager – The Prologue
In Voyager, the narrator in the prologue expresses a fear of stepping onto puddles. Of course, at this stage, it is not clear who the narrator could be. There are two possibilities: Claire or Brianna. I tend to suspect it is Claire. The prologue also brings to mind the notion of time-traveling and different, parallel worlds. […]
Continue readingLord John Grey: The Twelvetrees in Jamaica
I have been a little bit late in updating my blog. I was supposed to go the Outlandish Gathering in Savannah this year. However, it got canceled because of Hurricane Matthew (I have started to hate Mother Nature recently because of it). As a result, I was very busy packing and unpacking. This post is mainly […]
Continue readingLord John Grey: The Snake as Lord John’s Spirit Animal
Snakes seem to be everywhere in “Lord John and the Plague of Zombies.” In this post, I will try to interpret what snakes represent. Of course, I have not read yet any of the books that the author used as a source to write the novella, even though I acquired one of them, The Serpent […]
Continue readingLord John Grey Series: Confirmation of Geillis Having Syphilis
While I was away, I was able to finish reading A Trail of Fire. This post will be mainly about a detail revealed in “Lord John and the Plague of Zombies,” the confirmation that Geillis had syphilis. In his interaction with her, Lord John recognizes the syphilitic infection. She rubbed absently at her forehead, and he […]
Continue readingOutlander: Summer Reading
I am going away for three weeks by the end of this week. Of course, I will be doing plenty of reading. I am taking with me a copy of A Trail of Fire. It includes the following novellas “Lord John and the Plague of Zombies,” and “The Space Between.” I finished reading “The Space […]
Continue readingTime Traveling in Game of Thrones and Outlander
Time-traveling in both Outlander and Game of Thrones has been in my head for the last few weeks. Until recently, only Outlander exhibited time-traveling as one of its fantasy elements. However, a recent episode of Game of Thrones, Episode 605 – “The Door,” revealed that greenseers are capable of some time-travelling. If you are not […]
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