What Am I Reading Wednesday

What I am reading: Trigger Warning by Neil Gaiman

Motive by Jonathan Kellerman

What I have finished reading: Cetaganda by Lois McMaster Bujold. As there are a whole series of novels about Miles Vorkosigan they can be very different in themes, one is bound to have favourites. I’m not a big SF-fan, really, so perhaps it is not surprising that the Miles books that takes place in space are my least favourites and the one that takes place on Barrayar is those I like best. Then there are those that takes place on other planets, they are in the middle. Cetaganda is the first of them (at least in the internal chronology, Bujold doesn’t write in strict chronological order.) The plot is once again a murder mystery. Miles and his cousin Ivan are sent to the Cetagandan Empire to attend the funeral of the Dowager Empress. One of her servants is murdered at the bier and suddenly Miles finds himself more than a little involved. With the help of Ivan and an unusually adventurous Haut-lady, he sets out to find the murderer, save his own honour and, incidentally, also Cetaganda.

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On Doctor Who and fanfiction

I have the flu and what better use of me laying in bed than write a bit about Doctor Who? I plunged heads on into fandom in the past few months, but I’m not a new fan. Nevertheless, after starting writing fanfic about it, I have thought a lot more about the show than before and I feel the need to write it down.

I never saw Doctor Who as I grew up, something I am quite annoyed with. I’m a child of the 70’s and just about every British series was aired in Sweden in the 70’s and 80’s and I watched Monthy Pyton, Black Adder, The Young Ones and Red Dwarf, but never DW. So when I started watching the show around 2003 I had not real idea of what to expect. Tom Baker was for me Puddleglum in Narnia, not the Doctor. I started the 1970 season, the year when DW became a show in colour, which means the Third Doctor was my very first one. I had seen most of old Who when it started again in 2005 and I began watching the new series. I’m currently re-watching new Who with my husband, who has never seen it before and we have just begun season 4. I’m also re-watching old Who, starting from the beginning and currently on season 21 with the Fifth Doctor.

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