Rereading Lois McMaster Bujold, with earworms
My current Box-O-Books brought home for rereading includes all of Bujold's that I have in paperback, which means the whole Vorkosigan saga except Cryoburn and Capt. Vorpatril's Alliance, plus the Chalion books and The Spirit Ring.
I started the V-verse saga actually with Falling Free, which I can remember reading originally when it was serialized in Analog. I find I actually *like* Leo Graf better as a person than I like Miles. Miles drags one along by the eyelashes in a state of horrified fascination punctuated by cackles. Leo is a lot more like the folks I worked with at the Arkansas Highway Department, actually *analyzing* a problem to find the key to its solution.
Falling Free did not come with any attached earworms, but as soon as I started on Shards of Honor I started having the Suttons' song "Vor" running off and on in my mind. Barrayar added Kipling's "Female of the Species" to the mix. And right at the very end, "Aral's Nightmare" [about having 500 Miles' around the home] chimed-in.
I started the V-verse saga actually with Falling Free, which I can remember reading originally when it was serialized in Analog. I find I actually *like* Leo Graf better as a person than I like Miles. Miles drags one along by the eyelashes in a state of horrified fascination punctuated by cackles. Leo is a lot more like the folks I worked with at the Arkansas Highway Department, actually *analyzing* a problem to find the key to its solution.
Falling Free did not come with any attached earworms, but as soon as I started on Shards of Honor I started having the Suttons' song "Vor" running off and on in my mind. Barrayar added Kipling's "Female of the Species" to the mix. And right at the very end, "Aral's Nightmare" [about having 500 Miles' around the home] chimed-in.