Books read 2012

[rolanni]

*The Reluctant Widow, Georgette Heyer (read aloud w/Steve)
Friday’s Child, Georgette Heyer (read aloud with Steve)
Dragon Ship manuscript, Sharon Lee and Steve Miller (e)
Kim, Rudyard Kipling (e)
Regency Buck, Georgette Heyer (read aloud w/Steve)
Pollyanna, Eleanor H. Porter (e)
Chimera, Rob Thurman (e)

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*The Reluctant Widow was the very first Heyer I ever read and includes the character on which Pat Rin yos’Phelium is based. In which “is based” obviously does not mean “was snabbled up and copied, word-for-word and action-by-action” but does mean that I thought a very great deal about what sort of man would behave in the way this character is shown as behaving, what sort of training he must have had, with a side dish of how doing the right thing is so very often thankless, and even personally painful.

Edited to add:  Steve reminds me that the character above also got me to thinking about the dangerous person who doesn’t present as dangerous — something that we play with quite a lot in the Liaden Universe® — and indeed isn’t dangerous. . .until and unless necessity exists.

Originally published at Sharon Lee, Writer. You can comment here or there.

Comments

[jhetley.livejournal.com]

Stopped in at the Borders-replacement Books-a-Million the other day. They had a couple of copies of CAROUSEL TIDES and some other Lee and Miller titles. Not a large selection of F&SF, though.

[rolanni.livejournal.com]

It's been my experience of Books-a-million that they don't have a large SF/F section. It's also been my experience of Books-a-million that the staff isn't actually used to dealing with authors. I was kinda hoping BAM would hire the displaced Borders folk up here.

[jhetley.livejournal.com]

This is the first BaM I have entered. Can't say I was impressed. Their "Christian" section was larger than "Reference" . . .