I think I actually need to re-read the collection properly, as the joint staff rec came out of my gleefully foisting Bujold on my co-worker, with The Warrior's Apprentice as a starting point. And then we couldn't talk about anything else for weeks, and finally said, hey, we should rec something in time for Vericon. To my mind, Young Miles is the perfect Bujold starter kit, since The Warrior's Apprentice is pretty hard to find just by itself, and the Cordelia books are good but lack, well, Miles.
When she does it well, it's completely invisible, and it just feels like people, vivid and real, or realer than real. Yes to that, and everything else in that paragraph. When she's good, she's smokingly good. I haven't been as thrilled with the last two Vorkosigan books, and maybe it's just that I'm a more critical reader now than when I first read them, but things like nominal cultural appropriation really bothered me in Cryoburn. Grumpy critic is grumpy, but still wants more...
We weren't expecting it to be a bestseller, given that the cover is, um, um, but I'm hoping eventually it'll catch on. Until then, uh... we do this for the sake of Art and not Profit? ;)
I feel your pain. The new website can be clunky on several levels, no lie. Our web team does its best, but it is a very small web team and things change slowly...
...and now I'm going to re-read that part in Memory where Miles decides to go to the grocery store, because I don't know what it is about that scene, but it makes me ridiculously happy. :)
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Date: 2011-03-28 02:21 am (UTC)When she does it well, it's completely invisible, and it just feels like people, vivid and real, or realer than real. Yes to that, and everything else in that paragraph. When she's good, she's smokingly good. I haven't been as thrilled with the last two Vorkosigan books, and maybe it's just that I'm a more critical reader now than when I first read them, but things like nominal cultural appropriation really bothered me in Cryoburn. Grumpy critic is grumpy, but still wants more...
We weren't expecting it to be a bestseller, given that the cover is, um, um, but I'm hoping eventually it'll catch on. Until then, uh... we do this for the sake of Art and not Profit? ;)
I feel your pain. The new website can be clunky on several levels, no lie. Our web team does its best, but it is a very small web team and things change slowly...
...and now I'm going to re-read that part in Memory where Miles decides to go to the grocery store, because I don't know what it is about that scene, but it makes me ridiculously happy. :)