[Red Pen Reads] A Game of Thrones – Jon
It’s been a while since the book’s last visit to the Wall. I believe we last left Jon on a high note — he’d just arranged a suitable placement for Sam, probably saving his life in the process — don’t...
View Article[Red Pen Reads] A Game of Thrones – Eddard
Ned! Back again so soon? Yes, yes he is. On one hand, King’s Landing is where all the action is reaching its climax, so it makes sense that we’d spend so much time there. On the other, when you have a...
View Article[Red Pen Reads] A Game of Thrones – Arya and Sansa
After chapters of chasing cats and balancing precariously at the top of stairwells, Arya is finally getting to practice some swordplay. Syrio is calling out his blows (high, low, left, right) and she’s...
View Article[Red Pen Reads] A Game of Thrones – Jon
Having climbed our way out of the pit of teenaged girl suckitude that is vintage A Game of Thrones Sansa sprinkled with a good dose of Cersei’s vileness, we’re transported to the testosterone-steeped...
View Article[Red Pen Reads] A Game of Thrones – Bran
Bran is watching men arrive in Winterfell for the army Robb’s gathering. The latest (and last) arrivals are the Karstarks — a thousand-year-old offshoot of House Stark, they are descendents of Karlon...
View Article[Red Pen Reads] A Game of Thrones – Daenerys
It’s Dany’s first chapter AV — After Viserys. Life is somehow a little brighter AV, like that scene post-sex from 500 Days of Summer. Sex happens a lot in A Game of Thrones, so that’s nothing special,...
View Article[Red Pen Reads] A Game of Thrones – Catelyn
Catelyn and her uncle have taken the sea route to Robb, travelling to the White Harbor — the North’s primary port — and then on to where Robb’s gathering his forces with the sons of White Harbor’s...
View Article[Red Pen Reads] A Game of Thrones – Tyrion
I’ve missed Tyrion. That’s nothing new, I always miss Tyrion. Not even specifically in this book, just generally, in life. Somehow, his chapters are always so much less horrifying than everybody...
View Article[Red Pen Reads] A Game of Thrones – Sansa and Eddard
Sansa’s in a weird in-between state where she understands that she’s a hostage and that things are bad for her and her family, but still clings to the delusion that Cersei and Joff give a damn about...
View Article[Red Pen Reads] A Game of Thrones – Catelyn
Ladies (not hello, ladies, see Weston for that), a poll: for those of you who took your husband’s last name upon marriage, how many continued to think of yourself as Firstname Maidenname fifteen years...
View Article[Red Pen Reads] A Game of Thrones – Jon
And we’re back! Ok, so I’m back. I apologize for my protracted absence. It’s a combination of real life, propensity for procrastination, and the fact that the last chapter that I recapped reminded me...
View Article[Red Pen Reads] A Game of Thrones – Daenerys and Tyrion
Dany is inspecting the aftermath of a battle — more of a slaughter, really — from the privileged height of her horse. Another khalasar had come across a shepherding village and were in the process of...
View Article[Red Pen Reads] A Game of Thrones – Catelyn and Daenerys
Catelyn, guarded by thirty knights, is waiting for the fighting to end one way (in Robb’s favour) or the other (in Jaime’s favour) and ruminating on all the times she had to wait for her men to come...
View Article[Red Pen Reads] A Game of Thrones – Arya and Bran
Arya is hunting pigeons on the streets. It’s a good thing Syrio’s training has her so well-prepared for the life of a street urchin. Unfortunately, bakers are not interesting in trading freshly baked...
View Article[Red Pen Reads] A Game of Thrones – Sansa and Daenerys
Sansa and I finally have something in common — when things are horrible, we hide under the blanket in our beds. For some time after Ned’s execution (at least several days), she spent all of her...
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[Red Pen Reads] A Game of Thrones – Tyrion
Tyrion, my little ray of sunshine in a sea of misery and horror, how I love thee. Tyrion is with his father as Tywin is being notified of Jaime’s capture. Tywin is distraught at the danger the son he...
View Article[Red Pen Reads] A Game of Thrones – Jon
You know what scene at the end of Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone where Harry, Ron, and Hermione are sneaking out to go after the Stone and Neville stands up to them and asks them not to go so...
View Article[Red Pen Reads] A Game of Thrones – Catelyn
Ned and Catelyn were married at Riverrun, it was there he left her when he rode off to war, and there that she gave birth to Robb. Now, Riverrun is indisputably Robb’s birthplace, and it is Catelyn’s...
View Article[Red Pen Reads] A Game of Thrones – Daenerys
The last chapter! We started this book north of the Wall and we’re ending it across the Narrow Sea. I think this is symbolic of the series as a whole, since I suspect that it will come down to dragons...
View Article[Red Pen Reads] Wrapping up A Game of Thrones and future plans
I’m so glad I did this. Writing down my thoughts as I’m reading proved a really interesting experience. It made me analyzes the book, think about it, much more so than I ever have before. It’s more...
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