Stacy
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Lois McMaster Bujold:
Do you have favorite characters in each of your series? If so, what about those characters makes them more appealing to you than the others?
Lois McMaster Bujold
Much too large a question to answer in this tiny typing box. The major viewpoint characters have to have appeal, or I won't be interested enough to write about them . As a rule of thumb, I like characters, in my own work and that of others, who are laboring on a road toward redemption. Barr from The Sharing Knife ferex, started out in a pretty deep narrative hole, but he grew on me as he gradually started to Learn Better.
A sense of humor or sly wit is always a good sell, not to mention invaluable in bringing snap to the dialogue. Intelligence natch, though intelligence without humor... is mainly funny from the outside.
This question seems like a game anyone could play. Anyone else who cares to compare their answers in the comments, feel free.
Ta, L.
A sense of humor or sly wit is always a good sell, not to mention invaluable in bringing snap to the dialogue. Intelligence natch, though intelligence without humor... is mainly funny from the outside.
This question seems like a game anyone could play. Anyone else who cares to compare their answers in the comments, feel free.
Ta, L.
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Steven Sarafian
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Lois McMaster Bujold:
Having read "The Prisoner of Limnos" several times, I was startled when a friend from the U.P. mentioned yesterday a cruel local practice among youth there of tossing food to seagulls, which they caught on the fly, and then tossing an Alka Seltzer tablet, which MADE THE GULL EXPLODE. (I cannot vouch for the accuracy of this story--it may be so or it may be rural myth.) Had you heard of this?
Jay
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Lois McMaster Bujold:
How do you approach writing book reviews? I often have a lot to say about a book while I'm reading and reacting to it, but trouble finding the heart of how I felt about it in a short review. I enjoy reading your Goodreads reviews and those of Patrick Rothfuss a lot, and respect your taste. Any advice for those of us who read a lot, but could stand to recommend more?
CY
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Lois McMaster Bujold:
One thing I value very much in books is if they make me laugh or smile, but I'm very rarely amused by the overtly comic. Perhaps one of the reasons I love your books so much is that they can be deeply insightful to comic. So ... I am in need of something to cheer me up. Can you recommend anything? Books by preference, but movies okay too. Thanks!
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