See what I did there?

Hah!

I loved the first Amber series--I got the whole sequence in a two-volume set from the SFBC when I was in high school, so I can't tell you what happened in each individual novel--but I bounced pretty hard off the second one. Merlin just never gelled for me as anything more than a more self-involved knockoff of Corwin.

ION, there's this auction going on to send fans of color to Wiscon this year, and among the items being auctioned is an ARC of Cryo-Burn, the next Vorkosigan novel.

Even the ARC won't be out until the fall, and already my heart is clenching in my chest in fear. This despite the fact that I found Diplomatic Immunity fairly dull and haven't reread it since it came out. But oh, I'm worried about Aral.

Has anyone done any studies in how the long-careered writers have treated women in their books? The various women in Nine Princes are referred to as girls, but in the second Amber series the women are more involved in the intricacies of the plot. I'm curious as to how women achieved more--though I hate the word--agency in the plots of a writer who might have tended to overlook women.

the next Vorkosigan novel.

Oh, yay!!!

(Please let this one be much more like Komarr than Diplomatic Immunity. Pleeeeeeeeeeeease.)

Pleeeeeeeeeeeease

From your lips to her ears. Or, um, fingers. Given the title, I suspect it's going to give us some more fallout from Memory, but of course I could be entirely wrong.

Diplomatic Immunity.

But wasn't that the one with the bug butter and that dinner party scene that played like it was straight out of a screwball comedy by Ernest Lubitsch? I'd love that book for that scene alone. Komarr was pretty forgettable though. I could never get into whatsherface that Miles married. Elena something? No, that's his first girlfriend.

That was A Civil Conflict (? do I have that right?)

Jumping in, it was A Civil Campaign.

I love Bujold!

Hey, anyone buy ebooks through Barnes and Noble?

They have a Lend an Ebook beta and I would love to know if anyone has tried it. SO far, you can do it on your PC and a Nook, but they say it's coming for iPhone/Touch soon.

I think I have one of the books in the Beta, but I would LOVE to try it out with someone.

Ok, I have Alien Taste by Wen Spencer and Demon Mistress by Yasmine Galenorn in my B&N library that are eligible for the LendMe beta, if anyone is interested.

Heh. I had to go check....but I"ve already read that Wen Spencer (and prefer her non-Ukiah Oregon books, but liked that series OK).