QUESTIONS FOR THURSDAY at 8PM PST (CHANGED TIME!)

[Felicia, Grand Duchess]

Please leave comments/thoughts you want us to address here in the comments for Tuesday's hangout! The books are Hundred Thousand Kingdoms, and Archangel!

ALSO we will be THURSDAY at 8pm PST!
I had a scheduling thing, and I had food poisoning last week so I messed up and didn't think about it. So Sorry you guys, don't be mad!!! :(
XOXOX
Felicia

[Emmie]

I really loved Hundred Thousand Kingdoms. One of the big striking emotions I felt when I finished was relief. As a SFF author myself (even a baby one), I've been closely following discussions of diversity in these beloved genres, and NK Jemisin herself is one of this discussion's most powerful voices. Growing up on a steady diet of epic fantasies where the protagonist was always both white and male, having Yeine as both an excellently-developed female protagonist and a person of color was a refreshing, freeing feeling for me. I felt for a long time that I'd been waiting for this book my whole life.

I'm not sure I have a specific question, but I would love to hear you all discuss how Jemison created a diverse and powerful world in this book.

Edit: We met at BurCon in November and I felt silly commenting without mentioning that, so erm...hi! *waves* I'm still a Goodreads n00b, and I can't believe I just now found this group. :P

[Felicia, Grand Duchess]

Emmie wrote: "I really loved Hundred Thousand Kingdoms. One of the big striking emotions I felt when I finished was relief. As a SFF author myself (even a baby one), I've been closely following discussions of di..."
Welcome to the group! I'm so glad you've joined us!

[Emmie]

Thank you! I'm looking forward to tomorrow night!

[Sarah]

Hey! It'd be great if you could discuss the way things ended for each character. I was a little surprised at how casually Kurue was killed. Almost everyone else had more consideration when it came to their fate.

[Kat]

Both of this month's books have worlds that feel "epic" compared to recent picks.

Do each of you prefer to learn about the world along with a character or have the world building all nicely laid out for you?

Does your narration preference (2nd vs 3rd person) change on re-reading a book when you already know the basics of the world?

[Gary]

DATING DIVINITIES -- The Plusses and Minuses

Good things about sleeping with a god:

1. Earth shattering, mind-destroying orgasms that could kill you with pleasure.
2. Teleportation.
3. Shapeshifting sexiness.
4. Destroy your enemies with extreme prejudice.
5. Possible apotheosis.
6. Your relationship might save the world.

Bad things about sleeping with a god:

1. Earth shattering, mind-destroying orgasms that could kill you with pleasure.
2. Constant negative judgement and disdain.
3. Really aggressive ex-boyfriends/girlfriends.
4. Exposure to lots of collateral human misery and general shittiness.
5. Under all that sexy is a freaky, pale embryonic glob of slimy protoplasmic goo, the image of which kind of kills the mood of any boyfriend/girlfriend experience. (Dinner and a movie sitting next to the the goo shell is a little tense, and could put you off your cob salad....)
6. Your relationship might destroy the world.

Others?

[Felicia, Grand Duchess]

Guys if you didn't notice I had to change the Hangout time to this Thursday night at 8pm PST at youtube.com/geekandsundry, because I had a Geek and Sundry conflict. Sorry to do that, it's my bad. I hope you can tune in, the books this month were so fun!

XOXOX
Felicia

[Molly]

Which god would you most like to date? Any mythology you want, who do you choose?

[Minsta]

I just finished up a webinar earlier this evening, checked my email and wow! An email from Felicia Day :) Thanks for the reminder of the change to Thursday night.

Lot's of good questions already and Gary (dating divinities) - LOL! My questions are:

1) Why did it seem that both novels had a common theme of slavery being acceptable in a world that included gods? Even some of the gods were enslaved in HTK - though I knew they would get their revenge eventually...

2) Would you want to live in either of these worlds? I liked the physical description of Darre but I do not think I would be tough enough to live there! Very Amazon woman-ish...

[Richard]

Felicia wrote: "Guys if you didn't notice I had to change the Hangout time to this Thursday night at 8pm PST at youtube.com/geekandsundry, because I had a Geek and Sundry conflict. Sorry to do that, it's my bad. I..."

Thx for mailing, too. Just checked: there is no way to follow a specific forum as a whole. Goodreads, do you hear me?

[Kamil]

Molly wrote: "Which god would you most like to date? Any mythology you want, who do you choose?"

And before you say loki, remember he shifted into a mare and did lots of nasty things...

[Tereza]

I enjoyed both picks this month, big thanks for choosing them!
My questions are:

What aspects of the societies described in both books did you like best?
And which bothered you most?

[Mariko]

Do you think that the pageant/succession (final) chapters should have been longer? Perhaps give the reader more details about the paths and journeys of the characters (gods and humans). It felt to me that the book ended too quickly. I have only just begun book two (The Broken Kingdoms), so perhaps I should be patient and just continue to read. Would it be cheating to ask whether or not I should continue reading all the way through this trilogy (to book 3, The Kingdom of Gods)?

[Gary]

Molly wrote: "Which god would you most like to date? Any mythology you want, who do you choose?"

My choice: Freya.

Ancillary question: Which fictional or mythological god's soul would you most like to have implanted in your mortal flesh to gestate back to divinity and then meld into you so that you could take over their role?

I guess another way of asking this kind of thing is: What kind of pagan are you? What god/dess or pantheon would be your faith?

My choice: Bragi.

[Robin]

Hey! This is my first time - I'm a Vaginal Fantasy virgin. I'm glad to join the group, though I've been following along since Thanksgiving. I finally had the chance to read along with everyone and am looking forward to becoming a participating member.

Chapter 9 of The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms begins with "the Walking Death." What are your thoughts on this take on zombies and/or an epidemic?

This was the point where the book started to grab me. I liked how Jemisin used it to comment on class and as a lead in to discuss death. It had me thinking about other issues of class within the book (and the genre). I liked the line, "Of course such a plague is nothing natural." It made me want to find out more.

[Lindsay]

In the Hundred Thousand Kingdoms universe, which god or godling would you worship/follow?

[Mary]

I super loved hundred thousand kingdoms, so I read all three books. LOVED all of them. really liked the whole 3 gods, all things balanced thing. wheredoesthis series rate for you out of all the books you've read specifically for VF? I'm a newbie, so I'm curious if future picks will stack up. :) thanks so much! this is now my stay in girls night book club. cheers!!!

[Mary]

isn't it 8:20 pst right now? the vid is not showing on YouTube...