A new convert!
Jan. 28th, 2013 01:45 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
selenayOh, Monday, you only took an hour to defeat me completely. How do you do this to me?
In more cheerful news...
During yesterday's weekly Skype with my parents, Dad told me he'd finished reading Warrior's Apprentice (I gave it to him for his birthday last year in hopes he'd enjoy something I love) and please could I tell him what to read next and what the best order to read in is and by the way HE FREAKING LOVES LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD WHY DIDN'T YOU TELL ME ABOUT HER BEFORE.
Ahem.
I decided not to point out that I've been trying to pimp her to him for the last few years :-D And then I gave him advice on where to go next and we had a mutual geek out about the awesomeness of Miles Vorkosigan. He's decided that as this was such a solid rec from me, he's going to start his copy of Scalzi's Redshirts next and I think he was downloading Old Man's War as we hung up. Dad, sometimes you need to trust me when I tell you to read stuff.
Internally I was screaming "ANOTHER CONVERT WOO!" because everyone should read Bujold and love her :-D This must be why I'm on the Bujold panel next month...
In celebration, I decided to let myself start Captain Vorpatril's Alliance even though I don't have a long weekend to settle in with it. So far, thirty pages in, my major reaction is "Oh, Ivan, NO".
My mantra for Miles books tends to be "Miles Vorkosigan what did you do" with "Oh, Ivan, NO" for any chapters where Ivan appears. So I think this book is going to really work for me despite the lack of Miles :-D
Thinking about this, I'm starting to understand why I've turned into a Hawkeye fangirl. When I'm reading Hawkeye (and any Avengers books where Clint appears, to be fair) I tend to vacillate between "Oh, Clint, NO" and "Clint Barton what did you do". Apparently Clint combined all my favourite Miles and Ivan traits into one big, adorable, totally lethal dork.
If anyone thinks my day at work is mostly me thinking "I could be at home reading, I hate you all, why can't I be at home reading?", you'd be right.
In more cheerful news...
During yesterday's weekly Skype with my parents, Dad told me he'd finished reading Warrior's Apprentice (I gave it to him for his birthday last year in hopes he'd enjoy something I love) and please could I tell him what to read next and what the best order to read in is and by the way HE FREAKING LOVES LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD WHY DIDN'T YOU TELL ME ABOUT HER BEFORE.
Ahem.
I decided not to point out that I've been trying to pimp her to him for the last few years :-D And then I gave him advice on where to go next and we had a mutual geek out about the awesomeness of Miles Vorkosigan. He's decided that as this was such a solid rec from me, he's going to start his copy of Scalzi's Redshirts next and I think he was downloading Old Man's War as we hung up. Dad, sometimes you need to trust me when I tell you to read stuff.
Internally I was screaming "ANOTHER CONVERT WOO!" because everyone should read Bujold and love her :-D This must be why I'm on the Bujold panel next month...
In celebration, I decided to let myself start Captain Vorpatril's Alliance even though I don't have a long weekend to settle in with it. So far, thirty pages in, my major reaction is "Oh, Ivan, NO".
My mantra for Miles books tends to be "Miles Vorkosigan what did you do" with "Oh, Ivan, NO" for any chapters where Ivan appears. So I think this book is going to really work for me despite the lack of Miles :-D
Thinking about this, I'm starting to understand why I've turned into a Hawkeye fangirl. When I'm reading Hawkeye (and any Avengers books where Clint appears, to be fair) I tend to vacillate between "Oh, Clint, NO" and "Clint Barton what did you do". Apparently Clint combined all my favourite Miles and Ivan traits into one big, adorable, totally lethal dork.
If anyone thinks my day at work is mostly me thinking "I could be at home reading, I hate you all, why can't I be at home reading?", you'd be right.
