Moira Mackinnon asked Lois McMaster Bujold:

I am taking the Read Harder 2023 challenge, and the second task is to read your favourite author's favourite book, and you have long been my favourite author, so if you don't mind my asking, do you have a favourite book, or favourite author?

Lois McMaster Bujold Wow, that's a hard question to answer. There have been many many books I've liked over the years, fewer I've liked over decades, fewer still that I'd want to reread right now, some authors that are lingering faves but have a lot of books or a tight series -- Pratchett, Heyer, Turner, Tolkien. But you need a book, not a bookcase. I'll assume you've read The Lord of the Rings, so let's go with, hm, Georgette Heyer's Cotillion. There are half-a-dozen titles of hers that are first tier that I could have offered instead.

Otherwise, Megan Whalen Turner's fantasy The Thief, but N.B., that's the first book of a 6-book series, and it takes the first three for the full reward to really slot in. (Not a hardship.)

Ta, L.

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