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I've been reading Go Tell The Bees That I am Gone, by Diana Gabaldon. There are 912 pages to this book. My main problem is holding it up in bed to read it! Gabaldon explains its title meaning:
“Talking to your bees is a very old Celtic custom (known in other parts of Europe, too) that made it to the Appalachians. You always tell the bees when someone is born, dies, comes or goes — because if you don't keep them informed, they'll fly away.”
I put this book on my 65th birthday wish list, after I heard a radio interview, and when we 🎂celebrated in February, it was a gift! That said, I did not realize that it was the most recent in a series of books begun in 1991. Nor did I realize that it was a TV series!
There are nine books in the series:
- OUTLANDER (1991)
- DRAGONFLY IN AMBER
- VOYAGER
- DRUMS OF AUTUMN
- THE FIERY CROSS
- A BREATH OF SNOW AND ASHES
- AN ECHO IN THE BONE
- WRITTEN IN MY OWN HEART’S BLOOD
- GO TELL THE BEES THAT I AM GONE (2021)
I dove into the book, and appreciated the map and the family tree in the end papers. I toyed with the notion of going back to book 1, but as I read I began to understand it. I just didn't have the energy to find book 1, and wait for it. I never jump into the middle of a series unless I can help it.
Gabaldon, on her website, assures me that I can jump in. She has even created an Outlander Companion piece, although I managed to grab the gist of it. Even Gabaldon wrote that she cannot explain the series in under 25 words! Wiki cannot manage it (28 words!):
"The Outlander series focuses on 20th-century British nurse Claire Randall, who time travels to 18th-century Scotland and finds adventure and romance with the dashing Highland warrior Jamie Fraser. The books have sold over 25 million copies worldwide as of August 2014.[5]"
I like it, but I'm not done. It's pretty heavy with death and dying, wars, and all that went on in what became the US in the good old days of yore. I have taken a break from it for now.
I made the mistake of finding book #1 in another series: Guido Brunetti novels, by Donna Leon. The next available books are numbers 5 and 9. I'm not sure what I shall do.
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