Giles ,'Touched'
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."
So I don't know what this is actually about, but I like it for Taura!
Good one! I don't know what it's meant to be either, but I like the girliness with the leonine fierceness for Taura.
I'm glad you brought up the Vorkosigans - I find myself still periodically wondering why Gregor is not named Ezar. Maybe mentioning it out loud, as it were, will get it out of my head.
I just figured that Prince Serge was too much of a dick to bother following cultural naming practices.
That is an important question! Which I will now wonder about, but I think Serg=dick is probably the reason. I've also been wondering how Ivan rates a "Lord." Is it from the Vorbarra side somehow? (which, a minute later, I now see is what Wikipedia presumes...)
That's actually explained pretty well in Captain Vorpatril's Alliance. By, of all people, Ivan.
I just figured that Prince Serge was too much of a dick to bother following cultural naming practices.
I hadn't thought of that. I didn't have the impression that Serg was allowed to have much say in anything to do with Gregor. All I could figure was that it's different for Emperors for some reason, but he's also a Count, so I don't find that really satisfactory.
That's actually explained pretty well in Captain Vorpatril's Alliance. By, of all people, Ivan.
Oh! Then I'll finally get there this week.
I just finished the fourth Thursday Next book and I've got to say that was a pretty satisfying arc.
I reread Captain Vorpatril's Alliance recently, and I'd forgotten what a great book it is.
I really enjoyed it! Ivan PoV was a nice change.
I love this series and the wyverary especially and this is a wonderful review: [link]
Anyone read the Rivers of London series by Aaronovich? (I know him from having written some of the best New Adventures Doctor Who books; the New Adventure books were my introduction to Doctor Who long before I saw any episodes on TV. But have not read any of his Rivers of London series nor his Night Witch Graphic novels set in the same univerwse.)