Story Stories
Story #1: Passage
Excerpts from Sharing Knife: Passage went up on the HarperCollins site yesterday. At first, the excerpts were bizarrely the first 3 pages of each of the first 5 chapters (or so I hear). This seems like a reasonable way to preview a non-fiction book, but extraordinarily unhelpful for a novel.
( more story, a little review, and some thoughts on viewpoint technique )
Excerpts from Sharing Knife: Passage went up on the HarperCollins site yesterday. At first, the excerpts were bizarrely the first 3 pages of each of the first 5 chapters (or so I hear). This seems like a reasonable way to preview a non-fiction book, but extraordinarily unhelpful for a novel.
( more story, a little review, and some thoughts on viewpoint technique )
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To be honest, I have no idea what Greenspring is/was, especially as we seem to be missing a preposition (at?). I tend to gloss over details like placenames, which occasionally leaves me very confused when reading Bujold.
I didn't find the beginning terribly jarring, except that it seems to start awfully slowly for a Bujold book. But then, I guess I'm used to Miles, and we know what he gets like if you try to keep him quiet for ten pages at a stretch. But even then, I think most of the other books I've read by her have started in the middle of the action, so to speak, even if only psychologically (e.g. Paladin of Souls); this one starts a good chapter before anything really amusing (IMO) happens ( ... )
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