Month 45 of 260 (17.31 percent)
Size of list: 89,870 pages (15.55 percent above start)
Pages read: 23,167 (25.78 percent)
H-list: 6,333/23,472 (26.98 percent)
N-list: 8,475/36,960 (22.93 percent)
O-list: 8,359/29,438 (28.4 percent)
Finished: Shards of Honor, Golden Fool
Added: Shards of Honor, The Warrior's Apprentice
Shards of Honor is the first novel in the Vorkosigan series by Lois McMaster Bujold. Fans recommend reading it before Barrayar, which was a Hugo winner, so I read it. I loved it; it's a fantastic novel about two people from opposing sides of a war stranded together, and then what happens when they return. Neither side is presented as good, or right, except that there's a power struggle within one side of the war and the main characters are on the right side of that conflict. It takes place in outer space but isn't especially speculative; the characters and the world behave and react like modern Earthlings would. But the joy comes from the characters, which is why I devoured it in a week.
Golden Fool is the second book in the second Fitz trilogy; it was my favorite of the five so far, and especially a contrast to the last book, Fool's Errand. Golden Fool actually makes use of its length for multiple things to happen -- there is a three-sided cultural clash, there is factional strife within the court and within the society, and Fitz is dealing with relationships with women and with his foster son and and and... and then it sets up for a major, series-defining quest in the next book, which I only hope is not as long and monotonous as the quests in books 3 and 4.
Shards of Honor is the first novel in the Vorkosigan series by Lois McMaster Bujold. Fans recommend reading it before Barrayar, which was a Hugo winner, so I read it. I loved it; it's a fantastic novel about two people from opposing sides of a war stranded together, and then what happens when they return. Neither side is presented as good, or right, except that there's a power struggle within one side of the war and the main characters are on the right side of that conflict. It takes place in outer space but isn't especially speculative; the characters and the world behave and react like modern Earthlings would. But the joy comes from the characters, which is why I devoured it in a week.
Golden Fool is the second book in the second Fitz trilogy; it was my favorite of the five so far, and especially a contrast to the last book, Fool's Errand. Golden Fool actually makes use of its length for multiple things to happen -- there is a three-sided cultural clash, there is factional strife within the court and within the society, and Fitz is dealing with relationships with women and with his foster son and and and... and then it sets up for a major, series-defining quest in the next book, which I only hope is not as long and monotonous as the quests in books 3 and 4.
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