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Patience for her vengeance dripped like vitriol from her voice

The Spirit Ring by Lois McMaster Bujold

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This is a one-off fantasy novel by Lois McMaster Bujold that she wrote a decade of so before The Curse of Chalion really thrust her into the fantasy world of publishing. It’s strong in some ways — the kind of humor we’ve come to expect, the creation of characters, the action sequences, and a sense that magic has to be chained to the nature world in understandable ways (as opposed to the kind of Wishing for More Wishes of Harry Potter’s charms and hexes). There’s weaknesses as well: I’ve written before that I don’t really like when Bujold writes about […]

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8/23/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:481 |

I am so lost.

Cryoburn by Lois McMaster Bujold

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The most recent and I think perhaps last Miles Vorkosigan novel. Miles, now 35 or thereabouts is on an outer planet whose main economy is cryogenics investigating a rash of recent economic moves by factions from Komarr. While doing so, he is stunned into oblivion and we actually begin the novel in his consciousness, which is completely frazzled, having hallucinations, and chucked into the underworld looking for clues. He’s able to stumble onto a group of somewhat rogue cryoworkers who not only is able to help him on his feet, but also provides him with an alternative set of mysteries […]

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8/17/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:473 |

“And still ducking promotion, Captain Vorpatril?”

Captain Vorpatril's Alliance by Lois McMaster Bujold

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This is probably my second favorite novel in the whole series and it was the first one I’d ever heard about. It came out in 2013 and was listed in a Buzzfeed preview list and the enthusiasm of the review made me really interested in the series. It’s funny too because the novel is a departure from most of the rest of the books. Here we have Miles’s cousin Ivan Vorpatrail, familiar to regular readers in his ancillary role. Ivan is a foil to Miles in many ways. He’s a rules-follower, he’s tall and handsome and a more traditional ladies-man […]

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8/15/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:471 |

This galactic honeymoon was delayed, but perhaps better so.

Diplomatic Immunity by Lois McMaster Bujold

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Another detective novel! Miles and Ekaterin, now married, are on their honeymoon, somewhere, when Miles gets waylaid in capacity as imperial auditor in order to investigate a possible murder, the detention of Barayaran ships and spacers, and a fraught diplomatic situation. Ekaterin, realizing this is her life now, joins the fun along with their two developing children, currently incubating in uterine replicators. The mission brings them to “Quaddie space”. This novel ties together a 20 year old novel that Bujold wrote early in her career and won a Hugo for: Falling Free. Falling Free is a very good novel about […]

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8/5/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:446 |

Is that your idea of how men advance?

Komarr by Lois McMaster Bujold

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I love this series and this book clearly marks a different era of the series. In the previous novel, Memory, Miles’s career as a covert military admiral reporting back to his home planet’s imperial security agency comes to an end. He has taken up the post of imperial auditor, an investigative role similar to an inspector general or head of a fact-finding mission with blanket authority. That temporary post led to a new ImpSec head and a permanent posting as auditor. So now we begin the start of MilesVorkosigan, Space Detective! These detective novels (and there’s three of them so […]

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8/5/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:444 |

He was shaken by an unwelcome insight. Lives did not add as integers. They added as infinities.

Mirror Dance by Lois McMaster Bujold

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This is a reread of this book, which I first read about 5 or 6 years ago. This is also me listening to the audiobook read by Grover Gardner, whom I love, but is an acquired taste. He’s the voice of the Vorkosigans for me now. Also, this was inspired by reading Jo Walton’s rereviews of the books in What Makes this book so great? And like with her book, you should expect a lot of these. Spoilers. The last book previous to this one in terms of publication order is Cetaganda, a book I liked better as an audiobook […]

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5/19/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:274 |

I love you dearly but if I’m going to be throwing up, I’d really rather be at home.

Winterfair Gifts by Lois McMaster Bujold

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight by Unknown

Some of Your Blood by Theodore Sturgeon

Door in the Wall by Marguerite de Angeli

The Prophet by Kahlil Gibrain

The Mysterious Stranger by Mark Twain

Screwtape Letters by CS Lewis

Fire in the Blood by Irene Nemirovsky

Start Now! by Chelsea Clinton

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Winterfair Gifts – 3/5 Stars This is a reread from a few years ago when I read all of the Miles Vorkosigan books by Lois McMaster Bujold. I also started rereading them last year and got through about half before I stopped short, but I bet this will get me started started again. This book also starts out or sets of to tell the story through an alternate perspective from the other books. So far we’ve had Miles being the lead protagonist in the most of the books, followed by his mother Cordelia, and then two one offs — Ethan […]

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5/6/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:241 |

Lois Pulled a Bait-and-Switch on Me

The Sharing Knife: Beguilement by Lois McMaster Bujold

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  So, I am more than familiar with LMB’s two main series – The Vorkosigan Saga (Which is mostly a space opera), and her books set in the world of the Five Gods. (Which are a sort of semi-medieval fantasy.) What I’ve been slow to pick up though is her Sharing Knife series. Mostly because they are almost impossible to find in print! I’ve never stumbled on these books in a bookshop and had to go searching really hard across libraries to find a hard copy. So I have this search to thank for me briefly renewing my membership to […]

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5/27/2018 's CBR10 Review No:16 |


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