The management apologises for this breakdown in sanity. Normal service will be resumed as soon as possible.
I manged to completely ignore NaNoWriMo and the real world yesterday because... well... I was going to do some real day-job work but I made a Big Mistake. I started to read the Miles in Love Omnibus by Lois McMaster Bujold. It's the one with Komarr, A Civil Affair and Winterfair Gifts. (The latter a novella). I had only intended to read Komarr, but I finished it at four in the morning and couldn't stop - I galloped straight on to Civil Affair. Finished that at two the next morning (having done no bloody work to speak of all day) and if that wasn't stupid enough I immediately turned the page to Winterfair Gifts, getting halfway thrugh before I couldn't keep my eyes open another minute, whereupon I staggered to bed at five a.m. so tird I was bouncing off walls.
The good news is that Winterfair Gifts is a novella and I should be able to finish it SOON - like tonight. After that I've only got one more Miles Vorkosigan omnibus to read - Miles, Mutants and Microbes - and there's really only one proper full length Miles book within that: Diplomatic Immunity. What am I going to do when there's no more Miles to read? Am I going to have to go back and start from the beginning?
Yes I probably am because what I have to do is figure out how Bujold keeps me reading past the point of exhaustion and commonsense. (That's enough, Go to bed. No just one more chapter. Just one more page. Just one more paragraph...) It's a real neat trick if you can do it. So HOW does she do it?
( Some mild spoilers... )
I realise that I've come late to Miles Vorkosigan and that most of you are sitting there nodding and saying 'We knew that!' Better late than never, though. The omnibus editions are great except... Miles in Love is a trade paperback that's almost too heavy for its own binding. Reading it in bed is well night impossible because it won't stand up for itself unless you clutch it firmly in two hands and support its weight on the end of the spine somehow. Sheesh.
I manged to completely ignore NaNoWriMo and the real world yesterday because... well... I was going to do some real day-job work but I made a Big Mistake. I started to read the Miles in Love Omnibus by Lois McMaster Bujold. It's the one with Komarr, A Civil Affair and Winterfair Gifts. (The latter a novella). I had only intended to read Komarr, but I finished it at four in the morning and couldn't stop - I galloped straight on to Civil Affair. Finished that at two the next morning (having done no bloody work to speak of all day) and if that wasn't stupid enough I immediately turned the page to Winterfair Gifts, getting halfway thrugh before I couldn't keep my eyes open another minute, whereupon I staggered to bed at five a.m. so tird I was bouncing off walls.
The good news is that Winterfair Gifts is a novella and I should be able to finish it SOON - like tonight. After that I've only got one more Miles Vorkosigan omnibus to read - Miles, Mutants and Microbes - and there's really only one proper full length Miles book within that: Diplomatic Immunity. What am I going to do when there's no more Miles to read? Am I going to have to go back and start from the beginning?
Yes I probably am because what I have to do is figure out how Bujold keeps me reading past the point of exhaustion and commonsense. (That's enough, Go to bed. No just one more chapter. Just one more page. Just one more paragraph...) It's a real neat trick if you can do it. So HOW does she do it?
( Some mild spoilers... )
I realise that I've come late to Miles Vorkosigan and that most of you are sitting there nodding and saying 'We knew that!' Better late than never, though. The omnibus editions are great except... Miles in Love is a trade paperback that's almost too heavy for its own binding. Reading it in bed is well night impossible because it won't stand up for itself unless you clutch it firmly in two hands and support its weight on the end of the spine somehow. Sheesh.