Yay (and intro)

[jenett]

I've been a Bujold fan since .. erm .. sometime before Memory came out, but I can't remember how much further back than that. I'm lucky enough to live local to her, and therefore get to see her at local conventions on a regular basis.

My favorites of hers are the Chalion books, and then Memory because I have a massive tropism for books about how knowledge and memory create identity, and I'm not afraid to admit it. Or something. Her books are also among the very few that I know I can't start reading at night if I want to be up at a reasonable hour, because skimming good bit to good bit doesn't actually shorten the reading length much, and I won't be able to put them down.

As a note, and because it's recent news: she's just confirmed that she will be attending the Fourth Street Fantasy Convention as a guest in June (19th to 21st in Minneapolis, with a play-reading evening on the 18th).

4th Street is a fascinating convention (revived last year after many years of hiatus): it has a single track of programming, and a small size (this year, our cap is 250 people) so everyone is part of the same conversation. I'm the hotel chair, and glad to provide more info in email/my own journal, but thought it worth mentioning here too, as it's a great chance to talk freely with all sorts of cool people. (Some of whom are well-known authors, others of whom are totally fascinating people you wouldn't otherwise know of.)

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[spiralsheep]

I enjoyed Paladin of Souls best and then Curse of Chalion and then Memory, A Civil Campaign and The Vor Game. I've never ranked LMB's books in order of my favourites before so that was instructive. I like her characters within a complex of social relationships. The more world-building there is around the characters, the better I like it. Adventure plots are very much secondary to my enjoyment. The adventures are merely what make characters reveal themselves and their worlds.