This Vorkosigan project has already paid off for me: i apparently never read Shards of Honor, or at least not all of it. I must have read part of a serialization or excerpt somewhere to give me the idea I could check that off when I was actively trying to catch up on the series.
Saffron: You just had a better hand of cards this time. Mal: It ain't a hand of cards. It's called a life.
'Trash'
Literary Buffistas 3: Don't Parse the Blurb, Dear.
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
-t - Mar 20, 2016 11:43:50 am PDT #23785 of 28293
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Gris - Mar 20, 2016 12:32:35 pm PDT #23786 of 28293
Hey. New board.
I'm reading and listening to it right now! My library has most of the audiobooks to check out on overdrive so I can go back and forth.
Jesse - Mar 23, 2016 4:43:35 am PDT #23787 of 28293
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Is it weird that I just realized that Aral Vorkosigan in my head looks like Bruce Wayne from Batman Beyond??
-t - Mar 23, 2016 5:30:02 am PDT #23788 of 28293
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Nah, that seems about right. He's not quite that broad in my head, but I have more of an impression than a real picture built up. Mental images are not my strong suit.
I'm up to Warrior's Apprentice, and I don't think I read the beginning of this one before, but I have actual memory of my first exposure to Miles being a serial in Analog that I came into part way through, so that's as it should be.
Jesse - Mar 23, 2016 5:49:38 am PDT #23789 of 28293
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
I pretty much always have a mental image, but I could almost never describe what it actually is.
-t - Mar 23, 2016 5:53:06 am PDT #23790 of 28293
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
That might be what I mean? There's an image in there, but I can't look straight at it, it just flits past when it wants to.
Jesse - Mar 23, 2016 5:59:44 am PDT #23791 of 28293
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Yeah! Like that.
Calli - Mar 23, 2016 6:49:29 am PDT #23792 of 28293
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
I generally think of Aral as looking like Patrick Bauchau (Sydney on The Pretender). Which probably isn't that far off from the older Bruce Wayne.
Jesse - Mar 23, 2016 6:51:44 am PDT #23793 of 28293
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Ooh, good one.
-t - Mar 23, 2016 7:29:17 am PDT #23794 of 28293
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
That works.