new Bujold podcast interview
...at Unreliable Narrators.
http://unreliablenarrators.net/2017/0...
We recorded this a few weeks ago via Skype; audio only, thankfully not video. I can just barely talk in real-time -- although alas it comes out as first draft -- trying to track my physical presentation at the same time would be not fun. I'm a writer, Jim, not an actress.
Anyway, this one seems to have come out well.
Ta, L.
http://unreliablenarrators.net/2017/0...
We recorded this a few weeks ago via Skype; audio only, thankfully not video. I can just barely talk in real-time -- although alas it comes out as first draft -- trying to track my physical presentation at the same time would be not fun. I'm a writer, Jim, not an actress.
Anyway, this one seems to have come out well.
Ta, L.
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How do you do, and...uh..congratulations... awe-inspiring accomplishments - the writing and the awards!... also kudos for being able to talk in an interview...
Love "I'm a writer, Jim, not an actress."
(I'm not a writer, but I'm inescapably more not an actress.)
I have not read the Vorkosigan books sequentially. Yet I love the order in which I have happened to procure the books thus far, having completed, I think, six volumes.
I had to stop the interview recording as soon as the interviewer mentioned Memory, since I am reading the book now, and wanted no spoiling. When I finished the second chapter of Memory, I decided I needed to read Mirror Dance first, mostly to delay finding out the consequence of Mile's particular decision that seemed uncomfortably out of character to the "Miles I knew" from later books in the series. Yet subsequent delay in my receipt of Mirror Dance made it impossible not to return to reading Memory. I became beside myself with gladness to unexpectedly find 'Oh, the meeting of Laisa,' and, peculiarly more greatly elating, Mile's first encounter with the stylings and person of Ma Kosti.
I am looking forward to revisiting the interview. Thank you!!
The interview, the genuine interest and pauses that gave you, Lois, breathing room is refreshing. It was a pleasure being able to fully hear your answers without sidetrack from immediate 'next prepared question.' The entire atmosphere of both questions and answers bespeaks marvelous thoughtfulness. {Sounds like a Canadian accent... ah, it's Minnesota-an....why do I think a Science Fiction writer isn't supposed to have a Minnesota accent?...}
Your statement "otherwise...you could easily slip into trying to make art a democratic process, which it is not" strikes me profoundly for all its applications or selective removal with consequence to many arenas our very present time.
As a newcomer, I am tickled. Thanks for offering so much greatly spoken substance of your thoughts and evolution... and for the lead to 'The Chef's' reading order recommendations.
https://www.goodreads.com/story/show/...
The Curse of Chalion was my introduction to your books. I read it because the commentators on Laurie R. King's Virtual Book Club were raving about it.
I had lived in Spain for 7 months in 1974 so could see where the theology of the 5 gods came from.
I enjoy and love most of your books but Cazaril and Chalion is still my favorite.