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Discussion for chapters 6 thru 10. Please comment on anything from these chapters, but remember to hide spoilers within a spoiler tag. Please note which chapter a spoiler is from so other readers will know if it is safe to "peek" or not. You do not have to wait until reading all of the chapters to comment, but please restrict your posts to content from chapters 1 thru 10. Enjoy!
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Jeannette wrote: "I just finished chapter 8. I don't think [spoilers removed] is such a great idea."Because it's such a creepy idea, Jeannette?
that's what I thought: don't sleep at the convent! but she's going to, isn't she?
I just finished chapter 10 and we haven't gotten to sleeping at the convent yet but chapter 11 is titled Nocturne so I assume that's next. it's been well set up as a dangerous idea. chapter 7:
with Jennifer's discovery of all the excessively valuable art, I feel like now I have a good idea what's going to happen in the plot, but I might be surprised.
lovely the way we first had a good idea of how the convent as a whole is humble but with a beauty that is - austere? at least inside: the garden is luxurious, but only with practical plants.
chapter 8 - the sweet, blind Mother Superior gives Jennifer away to Dona Francisca! is she as naive as she seems? or could she realize something is wrong and they need Jennifer to bring it all out in the open? I love the line where Dona Francisca says Jennifer won't want to stay and Jennifer responds "on the contrary" "I shall be delighted"
"Blue eyes met black with the kiss of a sword's salute".
oh, it's ON.
chapter 9 - as a hero, I might always be disappointed in Stephen for telling Jennifer "it's all nonesense". maybe he will redeem himself. I note the chapter title means "with desire" - but only on his side at this point, she is wanting a big brother.
I was hoping Luis, the "lad" with the three chestnut horses, would show up again. of course he does, Mary knows what she's doing!
I’m enjoying your updates and comments, Jackie!
Jackie wrote: "chapter 9 - as a hero, I might always be disappointed in Stephen for telling Jennifer "it's all nonesense". maybe he will redeem himself. I note the chapter title means "with desire" - but only on..."
Stephen has his own agenda at first, it seems. He’s come to Gavarnie hoping to progress things with Jennifer, and instead finds her embroiled in all this mystery! At least, when he can see she’s determined to pursue it, he agrees to get involved.
Tadiana ✩Night Owl☽ wrote: "I’m enjoying your updates and comments, Jackie!"thank you! I'm enjoying the heck out of the book. I don't remember much about her "cottage" books, but I can tell that this one, like all the "vacation in exotic European locale and then DANGER" books, will be one I want to re-read.
@Julie, that's true, and once he's in he is all in.
Interesting to read your updates - it seems so long since we read this - so perhaps I’m ready for a re-read! 😉 Just checked and it's 6 years!!!
Susan, I decided to read it now because there is a group read starting Sept 1 in "reading the detectives" - so of course anyone would be welcome to post there as well as here. a mountain setting seems like a perfect read for these hot August days.
Jackie wrote: "Susan, I decided to read it now because there is a group read starting Sept 1 in "reading the detectives" - so of course anyone would be welcome to post there as well as here. a mountain setting ..."
Jackie - Yes - I'm looking forward to the group read in 'reading the detectives" I haven't started it yet! See you over there!!
Susan in Perthshire wrote: "Interesting to read your updates - it seems so long since we read this - so perhaps I’m ready for a re-read! 😉 Just checked and it's 6 years!!!"Six years?!? It doesn't seem like it, at all!
Julie wrote: "Jackie wrote: "chapter 9 - as a hero, I might always be disappointed in Stephen for telling Jennifer "it's all nonesense". maybe he will redeem himself. I note the chapter title means "with desire..."
Yes - as I said in Reading the Detectives I did find Jennifer & Stephen's relationship a bit odd.
Jackie wrote: "chapter 9 - I might always be disappointed in Stephen for telling Jennifer "it's all nonsense". Thanks for noting down the chapters with your comments, Jackie! I've been listening to the audiobook and having a hard time remembering what happens in which chapter.
I quite liked Stephen's (and later Gillian's) reaction to Jennifer's tale; it seems so realistic. All too often in fiction someone comes along with wild, paranoid theories that no one in real life would accept, and all the other characters just go, yeah, hm, we'd better investigate (but not call the police, of course, for all sorts of spurious reasons, because that woud spoil the plot, wouldn't it?). So this made a nice change.
Although, come to think of it, this disbelief is also a bit of a trope, isn't it? In another book – is it Madam, Will You Talk? – Stewart even has her heroine comment on it: "I was not to be spared the disbelief, the raised eyebrows..." (something along those lines; I quote from a sievelike memory).
