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What am I reading Wednesday
Jan. 28th, 2015 07:09 amI am reading: Still on Pioneer Girl by Laura Ingalls Wilder and I’m also reading Barrayar by Lois McMaster Bujold
What I have finished reading: Shards of Honor by Lois McMaster Bujold. If you haven’t read her, then I can’t urge you enough. She writes both fantasy and S.F, but Shards of Honor is S.F. All of those by her takes place in the same universe and most have the same hero, Miles Vorkosigan. Shards of Honor and Barrayar, however, are about his parents. Bujold have a knack for making almost every character interesting, even minor ones, writes great dialogues and good plots. She had created a universe with no aliens but where humans have spread throughout the universe. There are a number of very different cultures and she often show hos different cultures deal with the same problem. There is Jackson’s Whole were the only law is that the one with money can get what s/he wants, however unethical it may be. Beta Colony which is hyper-tolerant and emancipated, the Cetagandan Empire which tries to genetically tinker up the perfect human and Barrayar, a planet were the aristocracy are all military and have no tolerance for mental or physical disability at all. For example, there are even more cultures described, though those are the most important. Shards of Honor is, however, a bit uneven. It is one of her first books and really reads like three novellas more than one continuous book, albeit with the same main characters.
Cordelia Naismith from Beta Colony is on a planetary survey is taken captive by Aral Vorkosigan. Initially alarmed as he is known by the charming nickname “The Butcher of Komarr”, she soon realise that he is so much more and falls in love with him, and him with her. The book is in three very distinct parts and could be called “before the War”, “The War” and “The Aftermath”, and is part a love story and part thriller with capture, mutiny and conspirators as ingredients.
I have also finished the short story The Nameless City by H. P. Lovecraft. It isn’t my favourite short story by him, even if I am a Lovecraft fan.
What I will be reading next: I’ll probably continue reading Bujold; I feel a re-read coming up. I will also read The Haunter In the Dark by H. P. Lovecraft.
What I have finished reading: Shards of Honor by Lois McMaster Bujold. If you haven’t read her, then I can’t urge you enough. She writes both fantasy and S.F, but Shards of Honor is S.F. All of those by her takes place in the same universe and most have the same hero, Miles Vorkosigan. Shards of Honor and Barrayar, however, are about his parents. Bujold have a knack for making almost every character interesting, even minor ones, writes great dialogues and good plots. She had created a universe with no aliens but where humans have spread throughout the universe. There are a number of very different cultures and she often show hos different cultures deal with the same problem. There is Jackson’s Whole were the only law is that the one with money can get what s/he wants, however unethical it may be. Beta Colony which is hyper-tolerant and emancipated, the Cetagandan Empire which tries to genetically tinker up the perfect human and Barrayar, a planet were the aristocracy are all military and have no tolerance for mental or physical disability at all. For example, there are even more cultures described, though those are the most important. Shards of Honor is, however, a bit uneven. It is one of her first books and really reads like three novellas more than one continuous book, albeit with the same main characters.
Cordelia Naismith from Beta Colony is on a planetary survey is taken captive by Aral Vorkosigan. Initially alarmed as he is known by the charming nickname “The Butcher of Komarr”, she soon realise that he is so much more and falls in love with him, and him with her. The book is in three very distinct parts and could be called “before the War”, “The War” and “The Aftermath”, and is part a love story and part thriller with capture, mutiny and conspirators as ingredients.
I have also finished the short story The Nameless City by H. P. Lovecraft. It isn’t my favourite short story by him, even if I am a Lovecraft fan.
What I will be reading next: I’ll probably continue reading Bujold; I feel a re-read coming up. I will also read The Haunter In the Dark by H. P. Lovecraft.
