More Vorkosigage; also Pratchett [Reading]

[marydell]

Recent reads:

I trusted all of y'all and went ahead and read Memory despite my bad reaction to Mirror Dance. And y'all were right! It was excellent and mostly Mark-free. I really love Miles' relationships with Illyan and with Gregor, so this was a real treat, with a good mystery and a lot of interesting nuance.  Then I toddled along and read Komarr and liked that one quite a lot, too.

Then I skimmed around A Civil Affair Campaign a bit, and it seems to have large quantities of Mark, bugs, and romance--bleah.  Don't get me wrong, I like love stories, particularly when they're shoehorned into other genres, a la Dorothy Sayers or Ngaio Marsh.  I don't generally like love stories that are structured like romance, though. Sigh.   I think I might be more interested in reading it if I read some Georgette Heyer first, since it's an homage, and it's possible that I'll turn out to like Heyer. Recs?

Before this burst of Bujold reading, though, I read Terry Pratchett's The Color of Magic as a bit of a post-Mirror Dance unicorn chaser.  It was quite delightful--like Douglas Adams, but with structure and narrative purpose and more entertaining (to me) characters.  The luggage, of course, being my favorite.  Anyway, everyone on Earth but me has read piles of Pratchett, so you all know this already, but there it is. I'll read more soon.  The audiobook is extremely well-read, but I initially found it kind of boring, because the book strikes me as sort of a madcap romp that works best with the faster pace of reading-on-paper (well, on Kindle, in my case) than the more ponderous read-aloud pace.   Once I'd gotten about halfway into the book I did enjoy the audiobook quite a lot, though.

Comments

[rivka.livejournal.com]

papersky has a v. helpful post (http://papersky.livejournal.com/27014.html) giving her rankings of Heyer novels.

My personal favorites are A Civil Contract, Cotillion (oh, very much Cotillion), Frederica, and Sprig Muslin. papersky recommends The Grand Sophy, which is wonderful in a lot of ways, but has an extremely unfortunate and, for many people, book-ruining anti-Semitic scene.

[marydell.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the link! It sounds like I can't go wrong with A Civil Contract.