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[nineveh_uk]

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.

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[executrix.livejournal.com]

I'm not a dairy farmer, and I know what beestings is (colostrum) but I must say it sounds kind of yucky even if it were readily available.

I know some parents are a) slow readers b) insist on finishing everything and c) feel entitled to condign vengeance if they spent hours reading something they hated because of a recommendation, but if yours are not, then the worst that can happen is they'll get a few pages into a Bujold book and say, "This really isn't engaging me."

[nineveh-uk.livejournal.com]

I certainly don't feel the need to make beestings pudding. Though it is probably too much exposure to fandom that makes me thing that it sounds like some sort of sexual practice.

My parents are happily (d), but I would like Dad to get further than the half-a-page he managed of "The Left Hand of Darkness". Actually, I made a mistake with TLHoD; I told him it was SF and looking at the first page would turn me off, too. I ought to have told him it was a seminal work of women's SF dealing with issues of gender, sex, community and self. He might have kept going.