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.

I've been seeing updated/revised editions of some of those early works, is City of Bones one of those? No idea how much they are actually changed

I don't know if this is the revised version of CoB. I know she's releasing a revised version of Wheel of the Infinite, which I quite liked in the original form.