'Destiny'
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."
Oh, yes, love that world! And Penric's Demons, that might be a novella? Short story? I forget.
Have not read all the Sharing Knife books. I think I read the first one but was kind of meh on it. And I have Proto Zoa waiting in the wings - I read Dreamweavers Dilemma because it came up on the Vorkosigan timeline but the rest of the collection will, I think, be new to me.
Penric's Demon is an e-book short story/novella - loved that one!
Didn't much like Dreamweaver's Dilemma. I also have somewhere The Spirit Ring, which I also didn't much enjoy. Maybe after reading some of her other books I'd appreciate it. I didn't like the Sharing Knife books at all, although I gave the first two a good try.
I'm pretty sure I read The Spirit Ring but I don't remember a thing about it.
Set in Renaissance Italy ... there's a mercenary captain, an artist, someone becomes a statue ... yeah, it's been a long while.
Much as I love the Vorkosigan books, the Chalion books are my favorites. Interestingly, I didn't fall for Curse of Chalion or Hallowed Hunt the first time through. However, on reread, their characters really grew on me. And now Caz probably out-ranks Aral in my list of favorite characters.
Beyond that, I find the five gods fascinating, particularly the Bastard, and really wish she would write one set in the Quadrene (sp?) lands for comparison.
Right? It's such an interesting religion.
Mostly, I just think Gentleman Jole and the Red Queen is such a perfect bookend with Shards of Honor/Barrayar that I don't need anything more.
I feel the same way about A Civil Campaign And The Warrior's Apprentice.
I didn't read A Civil Campaign until after I'd read Diplomatic Immunity and Cryoburn, so I hadn't looked at it like that, but now that you point it out I can definitely see it.
A few of the things that are extra-funny are the very Seattle things. For instance, weather scientist Cliff Mass. Who is a real guy who really does have a blog that many of us follow (and used to be on the radio). I just re-read it and enjoyed many parts all over again, even if some of the main plot was not my favorite
Now I should read this! Because Cliff Mass!
My library website is down, so I'm just going to leave it here that Sharp Objects is the Gillian Flynn book I haven't read yet.
My favorite Gillian Flynn. Structurally, Gone Girl is better, but Sharp Objects is the one that sticks with me most.
sj, have you tried any of Megan Abbot's novella-length stuff?
You really should, Plei--there's a bunch of Microsoft stuff that I'm sure I only partly got, and so on...