What I am reading Wednesday
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scripsiWhat I am reading: Winterfair Gifts by Lois McMaster Bujold. I know I said I was going to read Captain’s Vorpatril’s Alliance, but I was a bit quick, there are also another novel before I reach that book.
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What I have finished reading: A Civil Campaign by Lois McMaster Bujold. This is her best book, IMO and also one of my favourite books ever! She calls it a comedy of biology and manners and dedicates it to Jane Austen, Dorothy L. Sayers and sisters Emily and Charlotte Bronte. It takes place the weeks before Emperor Gregor’s wedding and is very much an ensemble book. Apart from just about all of Miles’ Barrayaran friends and family we also get a few new faces. Most notable the unpleasant Richars Vorrutyer and his more pleasant cousins Lord Dono and By, the town clown. And Enrique and the butter bugs. It is also told from no less of five points of views, Miles, Ekaterin, Mark, Kareen and Mark. Miles just want to court Ekaterin, but unfortunately he is much better to plan secret missions and battle plans than courting and decide to keep the courtship secret from Ekaterin. If you don’t think that makes sense, then I can tell you that everyone of Miles’s friend thinks so too. Ekaterin just want to design gardens and not be bothered by all the eager suitors she has suddenly acquired. Lucky that Miles is just a good friend and no way she thinks of him as something more. Nope, absolutely not. Marks just want to do Kareen and make a lot of money. Kareen wants to do mark as well, but then there is the part about parents with a bit of a problem with children growing up. And Ivan just wants to stay out of trouble, manages to not do that spectacularly and, eventually, and actually is the one to save the day.
It’s a very funny book, sometimes even hilarious, but there is a serious side as well. The red thread throughout the book is the importance of respect. Respecting life choices, even if they aren’t your choices. respecting a child’s need for closure after the loss of a parent. Resect for relatives that you are used to just boss around. Respecting another person's boundaries, even if you love that person to bits. This is a book I would like to press into the hands of anyone I know, but I think you will have t read a few of the earlier books to really appreciate it. At least Brothers In Arms, Memory and Komarr.
The cover is really bad, though. The couple must be Emperor Gregor and his bride. Their wedding is the back drop of the story, but the focus and the wedding takes place in the epilogue. The soldiers flanking them has a very weird shape to their chests and the bugs… Well, bugs do have a place in the story, but they do not look like that. *sigh*
The Horror In the Museum by H. P. Lovecraft and Hazel Heald. Another Lovecraft I have managed to miss until now, but I found it too wordy and repetitive to really grab me and I predicted the end very quickly. The premises were good, though. A man makes wax models of the most peculiar monsters and eventually you realise that he goes to another worlds to find his inspiration.
What I will be reading next: Diplomatic Immunity by Lois McMaster Bujold.
Prudence by Gail Carriger
A Face Like Glass by Frances Hardine, thanks to
moreteadkWhat I have finished reading: A Civil Campaign by Lois McMaster Bujold. This is her best book, IMO and also one of my favourite books ever! She calls it a comedy of biology and manners and dedicates it to Jane Austen, Dorothy L. Sayers and sisters Emily and Charlotte Bronte. It takes place the weeks before Emperor Gregor’s wedding and is very much an ensemble book. Apart from just about all of Miles’ Barrayaran friends and family we also get a few new faces. Most notable the unpleasant Richars Vorrutyer and his more pleasant cousins Lord Dono and By, the town clown. And Enrique and the butter bugs. It is also told from no less of five points of views, Miles, Ekaterin, Mark, Kareen and Mark. Miles just want to court Ekaterin, but unfortunately he is much better to plan secret missions and battle plans than courting and decide to keep the courtship secret from Ekaterin. If you don’t think that makes sense, then I can tell you that everyone of Miles’s friend thinks so too. Ekaterin just want to design gardens and not be bothered by all the eager suitors she has suddenly acquired. Lucky that Miles is just a good friend and no way she thinks of him as something more. Nope, absolutely not. Marks just want to do Kareen and make a lot of money. Kareen wants to do mark as well, but then there is the part about parents with a bit of a problem with children growing up. And Ivan just wants to stay out of trouble, manages to not do that spectacularly and, eventually, and actually is the one to save the day.
It’s a very funny book, sometimes even hilarious, but there is a serious side as well. The red thread throughout the book is the importance of respect. Respecting life choices, even if they aren’t your choices. respecting a child’s need for closure after the loss of a parent. Resect for relatives that you are used to just boss around. Respecting another person's boundaries, even if you love that person to bits. This is a book I would like to press into the hands of anyone I know, but I think you will have t read a few of the earlier books to really appreciate it. At least Brothers In Arms, Memory and Komarr.
The cover is really bad, though. The couple must be Emperor Gregor and his bride. Their wedding is the back drop of the story, but the focus and the wedding takes place in the epilogue. The soldiers flanking them has a very weird shape to their chests and the bugs… Well, bugs do have a place in the story, but they do not look like that. *sigh*
The Horror In the Museum by H. P. Lovecraft and Hazel Heald. Another Lovecraft I have managed to miss until now, but I found it too wordy and repetitive to really grab me and I predicted the end very quickly. The premises were good, though. A man makes wax models of the most peculiar monsters and eventually you realise that he goes to another worlds to find his inspiration.
What I will be reading next: Diplomatic Immunity by Lois McMaster Bujold.
Prudence by Gail Carriger
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