Jay
asked
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?
Lois McMaster Bujold
I consider my little reviews to be my personal informal reader responses, and don't set a particularly high bar for myself. I try to capture how I reacted and why without putting in too many spoilers, and offer something of what I see as the mode or mood of the book for others considering reading it, but really, they're on their own. The accumulation here on Goodreads acts as much as a reading diary for me as anything else, so I can look back and find, "What the heck was the title/author/what that book was about that I was reading last year...?"
It's interesting, looking back over a long enough baseline, to see which books were memorable, and which have settled into the sludge at the bottom of my memory and dissolved.
Ta, L.
It's interesting, looking back over a long enough baseline, to see which books were memorable, and which have settled into the sludge at the bottom of my memory and dissolved.
Ta, L.
More Answered Questions
Jay
asked
Lois McMaster Bujold:
Are you excited about the new Star Wars movie? Planning to see it in theaters? What do you think of Star Wars as a universe/mythology/saga of stories in general? Thanks for your books, they've given me hours of meaningful entertainment and inspired a few great potential name ideas for children and/or pets (I really want a Persian cat named Simon Ilyan).
Kris Sellgren
asked
Lois McMaster Bujold:
Did you know that Sergei Lukyanenko, the author of the "Night Watch" urban fantasy series, is a fan? In his recent SF novel "The Genome", he references your Vorkosigan series not once but twice. At one point the main character stands in a customs line in some spaceport behind a tall guy named Ivan and a misbehaving hunchbacked dwarf named Miles...
About Goodreads Q&A
Ask and answer questions about books!
You can pose questions to the Goodreads community with Reader Q&A, or ask your favorite author a question with Ask the Author.
See Featured Authors Answering Questions
Learn more