Andrew
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Lois McMaster Bujold:
What notable items have you crossed off your bucket list, and what are the top items left on the list?
Lois McMaster Bujold
I can't say as I've thought much about bucket lists. One of my long-time ambitions was realized when Captain Vorpatril's Alliance made the real NYTimes bestseller list, what gets shorthanded as the Big List -- my later books had tapped the extended list enough times by then to make me think it possible and not a pipe dream.
Regrets, I think, are not bucket-list material. "I wish I'd done X differently in 1969," and the like. Also dangerous; if one could go back and change things, one might risk arriving at a less satisfactory outcome in the long run. Other things tend to be not under anyone's control, such as, "I wish my spine would stop having arthritic deterioration." Death would halt such declines, I suppose, but it's not a solution I favor. Be careful what you wish for and all that.
I'm pretty happy right where I am, really.
Ta, L.
I can't say as I've thought much about bucket lists. One of my long-time ambitions was realized when Captain Vorpatril's Alliance made the real NYTimes bestseller list, what gets shorthanded as the Big List -- my later books had tapped the extended list enough times by then to make me think it possible and not a pipe dream.
Regrets, I think, are not bucket-list material. "I wish I'd done X differently in 1969," and the like. Also dangerous; if one could go back and change things, one might risk arriving at a less satisfactory outcome in the long run. Other things tend to be not under anyone's control, such as, "I wish my spine would stop having arthritic deterioration." Death would halt such declines, I suppose, but it's not a solution I favor. Be careful what you wish for and all that.
I'm pretty happy right where I am, really.
Ta, L.
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I am trying to find the title of a book I read maybe 10 years ago. Probably a harlequin presents. All I remember is that a woman that wants a baby possibly hires a man to spend months at her house, seems like a remote farm with land, to get her pregnant. I think he was a bit of a stranger. I do remember her getting her cycle and his thoughts on how pitiful she was and that it drained her energy. Thx for any info?
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