WoTaLong (Wheel of Time Readalong) discussion
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Yes, a chapter summary would be great! Even if it's just the location and people, that's often enough to trigger the memory.
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Also, do you think we could add sections for discussions of at least next few books? I know we're doing one book per month, but it might be nice to write down thoughts as soon as we finish reading each section of the books while it's fresh in our minds (and since I'm currently in book 3, my memories are already fading for earlier books).
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I would love to participate, but I feel like I'm a little late. I had no idea that this was going on until today and I've never read any of the books, but I'll definitely try to jump in and participate as much as I can especially since I wanted to read this series or at least start it this year.
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Bookishreal, don’t worry start reading them and join in the boards you are on, you are not too far behind and I’m still on the first book third week in.
Jade I’m curious when u will put the prequel book New Spring on the schedule. For this read through I read it first in December.
Scott, I thought that too, although general consensus on booktube is that you need to have read a few of the books first to fully appreciate the lore contained within. I found out about the prequel after I was 1/4 through the eye of the world and thought”oh no”, but it apparently it wasn’t published in full as a novel until after book 8.
Yeah probably better to read it after a few of the main books. I found discussion elsewhere that u should wait to at least after book 6 but some feel u should wait till after 10. New Spring might be very good for someone that has read some of the series in the past and starting over to read it first.
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Between 6 and 10 is where the series loses some momentum so it make sense to read it somewhere in there, but I'm open to suggestions on exactly when people are interested in reading it!
I vote for reading in publication order, so after book 9 sounds good to me.
I'm splitting the first book up into four sections for discussion. As we go along (and the books gets longer :P ), we may split into smaller sections for discussion. I thought starting with four was a nice number to correspond roughly with weeks in the month. January this year technically is more like 4.5 weeks, but that just means you'll finish ahead of time! Let us know if you like this sort of set up!
I set up the discussions as spoiler discussions, so please finish the sections listed in the discussion title before going in there (or enter at your own risk!). I know some of us (like myself) have already read (some of) the books previously, so I'm wondering if it would be helpful to have a chapter by chapter summary available for us to review. I've found a few recaps and such online, but honestly they are full of spoilers! So I was thinking of making my own that are spoiler free. What do you guys think? Would that be helpful? Would you prefer non-spoiler discussions with people using spoiler tags as needed?
Please leave any questions or feedback on how the readalong is set up in this thread. We will respond as we can and any feedback is appreciated and will be taken into consideration!
EDIT: Chapter summaries have been added to the discussion boards by section.
Thanks!
Roya and Jade