Lois McMaster Bujold Fans discussion

This is a place where we can go on about off topic topics :) It's a pub, but they serve coffee, tea and cream cakes as well.

Oh, dear. What do you think about off-topics? I really enjoy some of them on other Bujold lists, but . . . I'm running out of time. I really like that we've been able to stay on-topic here.

But then again, it's not human nature to stay on-topic all the time (-:.

Exactly. And I don't want to be the big bad moderator, if we drift off topic from time to time, which is inevitable if there will be some action around here :)
So, now we have a place for any off topic question or issue we would like to share with people here. With some cream cake on the side :D
Time worries me too, as the summer season is coming closer. I work in a travel agency, so I have like no free time at all in the summer. And my family would want to talk to me also, from time to time :) I hope I'll manage, but if I would be slower in summer, hopefully I would get in no trouble ;)

Micki wrote: "Oh, dear. What do you think about off-topics? I really enjoy some of them on other Bujold lists, but . . . I'm running out of time. I really like that we've been able to stay on-topic here.

But ..."

You shouldn't worry about joining in any discussions that you don't feel you have time for Micki!!

If a topic interests you feel free to jump in, if it doesn't or you don't have time no worries! ;-D

Hear Hear!

I've been wondering about that....what happens when I don't have the time or inclination? what am I committing to?

In the mean time....I've felt a kind of bubbly joy:


I feel like I'm standing, twitching at flies, and my herd mates have joined me nose to tail...standing hipshot in the shade.....

Or maybe we've sidled up to the bar in the spaceport and ordered a Romulan ale...

Hi everybody!

I want to apologize for my absence in the last three weeks. It was unintentional, and completely caused by the fact that I live on Barrayar :)
See, my computer's hard disc broke down, and it took the vendor's service (it is still under warranty) 3 whole weeks to replace it. Go figure.
But I am back now, and I see the new book is already scheduled. I am looking forward to our discussions :)

computers! can't live with 'em, can't live without 'em *sigh* glad you are back!!
I seem to have lost my copy of Paladin of Souls in the last month, but as soon as I locate it I'm hoping to start reading. If people need to push the date back that's okay -- I was thinking of May 1st as a start reading date to aim for. Does that seem okay for everyone? anyone need more time with The Curse of Chalion?

I already started. I was not sure if the 1st of May was a date to start to read or to start to discuss. I will definitely not be able to finish it till then. As for the The Curse of Chalion, one can always go back to it if something comes to one's mind, I guess.

I updated the currently-reading shelf, I hope it is OK the way I did it - 1st of May as the starting date...

Btw. I am in Porifors now, things are not quite revealed yet, but they will be, any time now... Oh, delight :))

Not sure if this is the best place to comment on this topic, but I just got "The Vorkosigan Companion" from the library and started it, and I gotta say that I hesitated just because I love her books and not necessarily reading ABOUT her books... but her nonfiction pieces just make me love her all the more. Lois is so honest, so clear, so centered. Maybe we need a "Lois is a wonderful person" topic!

Aren't all the topics here, where we praise her books and the wisdom in them, saying exactly that ;)

I do not expect to see "The Vorkosigan Companion" on the shelves of the Croatian bookstores, translated or not, and besides, in the overall atmosphere of crisis, I will rather save my money for the next Vorkosiverse book, that is - yippy ya yey!!! - to about two thirds done:
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I was wondering if you all had books that you love so much (in any genre) that you wear them out reading them so much?

When I was in high school I re-read Clan of the Cave Bear so many times that my paperback copy literally fell apart....

I try to be more careful now, but still read some books over and over and over and over.....

Me too.
In elementary school I had all the Tarzan books by Burroughs and read them to destruction (and White Fang, and The Call of the Wild). Pearl Buck's books as well, a bit later. Later still I almost did that to Clan of the Cave Bear (although it was a paperback copy, I still have it somewhere - possibly borrowed to someone, I should really keep a record), Auel's books that followed were not half as good IMHO.
But no other books I have ever read that many times as Bujold's.
I bought Bujold's Vorkosigan series after I've read all the books more then 10 times (borrowed from the library), so mine are still nice and new (reread only 2 times) and so are the Chalion books and the first two of the TSK. I take more care now, especially of these.

Oooh, I totally have books like that. Books I've treasured for MANY years. Still have my childhood copy of Tarzan. Have any of you read stuff by Dianna Wynne Jones? I read her book "Dogsbody" in the summer before sixth grade... I remember quite clearly getting it from the bookmobile. It etched itself into my mind. Still have my childhood copy of that one, too.

vorbore wrote: "Later still I almost did that to Clan of the Cave Bear (although it was a paperback copy, I still have it somewhere - possibly borrowed to someone, I should really keep a record), Auel's books that followed were not half as good IMHO.."

I agree completely. I loved CotCB soooo much. I was very disappointed with the others.... The Valley of the Horses was nice when it was just her on her own living in the valley with Whinny and Baby...

Kiri wrote: "Have any of you read stuff by Dianna Wynne Jones?"

I've read some of her stuff -- have a few more that I haven't had a chance to read yet. I didn't really discover her until after the film version of Howl's Moving Castle came out. Then I read the book and the "sequel" later I realized she had other books. I'm just now working my way through them slowly.

Oh, goodness gracious, we just ran out of beer, care for some maple mead instead? :)

Maple mead, yum.

Oh, this is a special delivery, straight from Silvi Vale. It selectively destroys only those brain cells one does not need anyways. Dendarii version of Forget-Me-Shot ;)

Cream cakes. Meh.
Now Ma Kosti's peach tart...

There's a lot of action on FB. I hang on a Callahan's page. Haven't looked for a Bujold page.

Space Opera Fans are reading Falling Free by Lois McMaster Bujold in August 2019.

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