Mythical & Magical Book Group - "Water Outlaws"
Schedule
Fri Mar 06 2026 at 09:00 pm to 11:00 pm
UTC-08:00Location
503 Main St, Oregon City, OR, United States, Oregon 97045 | Oregon City, OR
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Looking for more magic in the world? Do you love witchy vibes? Enjoy mythology and myth retellings from around the world? Do we have a book group for you--join us for the first meeting of White Rabbit's Magical & Mythical Book Group on the first Friday of the month at 6pm 🙂Looking for some escapist reading with some magic sprinkled around strong protagonists, and then a little chatting and some nice people? We hope you join us! Come to this one, come to all of them or come every now and then--you are always welcome and wanted here. We typically meet for around 1.5-2 hours with a short break in the middle. If you haven't read the book, but would like to enjoy nice humans, listen to the discussion and maybe ask some questions...absolutely, come.
Book is not included, but White Rabbit would love for you to use the public library or purchase from an indie! Water and bathrooms are available, and Black Ink will be open for treats or drinks if you so desire--thank you for not bringing in outside food or drink.
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Paperback edition includes a Locus-Award Finalist Novelette!
A Best-Of Pick for Vulture | The Washington Post | Publishers Weekly |Men's Health | IGN | Polygon | Goodreads | Amazon | Nerd Daily | WeAreBookish| Paste | Books, Bones & Buffy | The Escapist | Paste Magazine | SciFixFantasy | Distractify | Gizmodo | Ms. Magazine |Booklist |Popsugar | Book Riot | Autostraddle | The Mary Sue & others
Finalist for the American Library Association Carnegie Medal | British Science Fiction Association Award for Best Novel | Nebula Award for Best Novel | Ignyte Award | Dragon Award | Locus Award
Inspired by a classic of martial arts literature, S. L. Huang's The Water Outlaws are bandits of devastating ruthlessness, unseemly femininity, dangerous philosophies, and ungovernable gender who are ready to make history―or tear it apart.
"This wuxia eat-the-rich tale is a knockout."―Publishers Weekly, starred review
In the jianghu, you break the law to make it your own.
Lin Chong is an expert arms instructor, training the Emperor's soldiers in sword and truncheon, battle axe and spear, lance and crossbow. Unlike bolder friends who flirt with challenging the unequal hierarchies and values of Imperial society, she believes in keeping her head down and doing her job.
Until a powerful man with a vendetta rips that carefully-built life away.
Disgraced, tattooed as a criminal, and on the run from an Imperial Marshall who will stop at nothing to see her dead, Lin Chong is recruited by the Bandits of Liangshan. Mountain outlaws on the margins of society, the Liangshan Bandits proclaim a belief in justice―for women, for the downtrodden, for progressive thinkers a corrupt Empire would imprison or destroy. They’re also murderers, thieves, smugglers, and cutthroats.
Apart, they love like demons and fight like tigers. Together, they could bring down an empire.
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