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nineveh_uk) wrote2010-08-05 02:23 pm
nineveh_uk) wrote2010-08-05 02:23 pm
AKICOLJ
Where can I buy a copy of Winterfair Gifts without buying Miles in Love?
Where would you recommend I start my parents on Bujold? I am convinced they'd like them, but my mother seems never to have read any SF, and my father seems virulently allergic to it. They are otherwise open-minded readers who like Patrick O'Brien and Sayers, and I'm convinced they'd like Bujold if only they could open it in the first place. Would Komarr be impractical for my mother, who enjoys Heyer?
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Seen in a remaindered bookshop at lunchtime, a book on Finnish cooking. I let it stay remaindered - any book that thinks beestings is commonly obtainable anywhere there's dairy farming (hands up if you are not a dairy farmer and have ever heard of it) is not a book that I want to rely on serving me edible food.
Where would you recommend I start my parents on Bujold? I am convinced they'd like them, but my mother seems never to have read any SF, and my father seems virulently allergic to it. They are otherwise open-minded readers who like Patrick O'Brien and Sayers, and I'm convinced they'd like Bujold if only they could open it in the first place. Would Komarr be impractical for my mother, who enjoys Heyer?
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Seen in a remaindered bookshop at lunchtime, a book on Finnish cooking. I let it stay remaindered - any book that thinks beestings is commonly obtainable anywhere there's dairy farming (hands up if you are not a dairy farmer and have ever heard of it) is not a book that I want to rely on serving me edible food.
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I didn't know what beestings was until a Finnish cookery teacher I was teaching English to asked me about it and I rang my dad who said his great aunt used to refer to beestings but he'd never heard anyone else use it in living memory. I think it got into a Finnish-English dictionary at some point and has fossilised. If I was translating the recipe, I'd have said colostrum, with a footnote pointing out that it is illegal to sell colostrum in the UK and you will have to actually be a dairy farmer to make the recipe.
As to Bujold, I would recommend Komarr as that's where I got into it again after being put off by bouncy Miles. After Civil Campaign I then went back as far as Borders of Infinity, Brothers in Arms and Mirror Dance (in one volume) and feel I could even cope with early Miles again now. I ended up discussing them with my mother this week as a result of lunchtime conversations about cloning (dairy cow milk crisis) but don't know where to start her either as she's not particularly into romances. However, she does read Ian M Banks and many years ago lent me The Left Hand of Darkness.
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I incline towards Komarr for Mum at least - I liked Cordelia's Honor, but she doesn't read Heyer for the romance, and there are lots of spaceships and violence. Komarr feels more of an ordinary novel that happens to be set on another planet. I still haven't read Borders, Brothers, or Mirror Dance - I started with the Cordelia ones, then went to Komarr, then back to the beginning with Miles so am still catching up.
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