'Potential'
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."
I don’t know how I feel about my huge collection of Gaiman-related books and collectibles. I think I’m going to hang on to everything, at least for a while, but it’s all going to be boxed away.
Same here - I have a lot of stuff. Including dolls from ita. I'm not sure when I'll be able to look at them again.
Including dolls from ita.
Oh, ouch. Yeah.
Ouch, Juliana. That’s rough.
Atropa I thought of you when I read about Gaiman , not that I thought he hurt you , but I know what a big deal he had been and...the whole thing sucks.
If I wanted to get the kids (18 and 21, currently reading Brandon Sanderson aloud to each other) into Bujold, what’s my starting point?
Much as I love Cordelia's stories, I'd start with Miles' - Warrior's Apprentice. He's more their age.
Oh, huh, I am somewhat surprised to find I don't have an obvious answer. Penric is the series I am most in love with, and I think they probably are best read in order, so maybe Penric's Demon?
For Vorkosigans, jeez, what is a good entry point? I really enjoyed my internally chronological readthrough but I don't think that's a good way to get introduced. Hm.
I second The Warrior's Apprentice; you can pick up enough from context to see what's going on, and it's got some good narrative drive. Then if they want they can go backwards to Shards of Honor and Barrayar. (I admit that Barrayar is one of my all-time faves; Cordelia is such a badass but not in an obvious way.)
I haven't read the Sharing Knife novels, so I don't know if they are a good entry.
I'm listening to City of Bones by Martha Wells on Hoopla. It's better than I remember it being, given that it was one of her earliest novels.
It took me a couple of runs at the Sharing Knife series to get into it. I did eventually like it well enough, but not as much as her other stuff and I don't remember much about it.