TrixM
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Lois McMaster Bujold:
I just found my account was hacked, so that might explain some of the garbage appearing randomly under reviews (assuming my account is not the only one to be hacked). Some of the other "questions" are patently there to get people to click on their profile names even if no links are embedded. Goodreads' security options are lacking - e.g. we don't have to approve "friends". And authors have no ability to approve Qs?
Lois McMaster Bujold
I have the power to skip or flag peculiar Q&A entries. I should likely skip more of them, but years of ingraining from public schools -- answer every question you can on the test! -- is hard to overcome.
I do have to approve "friends", but as this is a public site for, well, publicity, I don't vet them. (For one thing, that would be much too large a tax on my time and attention.)
Ta, L.
I have the power to skip or flag peculiar Q&A entries. I should likely skip more of them, but years of ingraining from public schools -- answer every question you can on the test! -- is hard to overcome.
I do have to approve "friends", but as this is a public site for, well, publicity, I don't vet them. (For one thing, that would be much too large a tax on my time and attention.)
Ta, L.
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Rick Ellrod
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Lois McMaster Bujold:
The Sharing Knife maps are remarkably similar to the Midwest of North America. This has made me wonder occasionally whether it's really the far future of our own world - if one assumes a technological culture was succeeded by one based on groundwork, which then fell. Or is this an alternate America, like Patricia Wrede's Frontier Magic?
Kate Davenport
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Lois McMaster Bujold:
"As far as medical aid goes, I'd think Miles would be a lot more comfortable going to Beta Colony. We don't actually know that he hasn't.." Interesting. I know someone with ALS, luckily the slow kind. I've wondered how profoundly it would affect him emotionally if it were not just arrested but reversed after 20 years of fighting & dealing with a slowly progressing debilitation. Conflicted, redefining himself at 65?
Stephanie Hill
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Lois McMaster Bujold:
Hi, Lois! I just wanted to reach out to thank you so much for your amazing books. I read Curse of Chalion and Paladin of Souls back in high school, and I liked them, but I'm rereading them now as an adult and fully appreciating them in ways that are new. Thank you for writing books that stand the test of time. Curse of Chalion is magnificent and a breath of fresh air! Hope you don't mind me thanking in your questions?
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