Miles to Go Before I Sleep With The Fishes

[captainsblog]

"Boy, could she drink. She drank like a.... she drank a LOT."

We've had an aquarium in our living room since Emily was in elementary school. She won a goldfish at a carnival; we named him Fishyfish and he spawned, in time, close to a dozen store-bought descendants and a now-20-gallon tank. For the past several years, that real estate has been shared by just two fairly large pieces of Pisces: Momo, a goldish looking guy, and Othello, a somewhat newer and visually darker soul of similar bulkish size.

Earlier tonight, Momo's monthlong fight against Ick or Whatever came to an end, and he's now buried in the front garden near three of our dear departed cats.  He was big enough at the end for me to consider placing sides of fries and cole slaw along with him.  And yes, we will be going to PetSomething soon to find a new tankmate for Othello who, we hope, will not meet a delicious fin in the clutches of his fins.

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Also earlier tonight, I finished #18 on my Books Read list for the year, and ayrshire_of_elm was good enough to remind me what I already had on hand for Hey Nineteen.

Her sister, our equally dear friend digitalemur, had duly gifted her with a copy of Lois McMaster Bujold's Cryoburn (which was #25 on my last year's list, which I didn't get to until October), and both her copy from Sarah and mine came with a CD full of the Miles Vorkosigan backstory, including all of her prior novels in the series.  And so, now duly transferred in .epub format to the phone and with Stanza humming along swimmingly- sorry, Momo:( - I'm now beginning at the beginning, with The Warrior's Apprentice, which, best as I can tell, is the Very Good Place To Start.

If this is the wrong place, I assume someone will tell me. Otherwise, I plan on catching as much as I can possibly school myself in:)

Comments

[digitalemur.livejournal.com]

Some people start with Shards of Honor, but I think The Warrior's Apprentice is a more accessible and better reading way to start.

[thanatos-kalos.livejournal.com]

Warrior's Apprentice will be okay, though chronologically Shards of Honour comes first. Bujold's brilliant, though; I started with Borders of Infinity and ended with Memory (this was before Cryoburn came out) and I could still follow everything.

[digitalemur.livejournal.com]

I was made to start with Falling Free. Which is great, but I now recommend one of the more direct approaches.

[firynze.livejournal.com]

Aww, poor Momo. May he rest in fishy peace.

I need to figure out what order the Vorkosigan series goes in...I have all the Mobi files courtesy of Baen, and no clue which order to read them in. Goodreads, ho!

[captainsblog.livejournal.com]

For all the billions of bytes they put on that disk- a lovely idea, don't get me wrong- it would've been nice if they'd dropped a few hundred K on something telling you WTF TO READ FIRST.

Per above, I've just picked "Warrior's Apprentice" (which Stanza insists on referring to as "Young Miles" for some reason) and it's going fine. (Thanks again, btw, for suggesting that app- it's SO much better than that Overture thing.)

[firynze.livejournal.com]

That's the problem with really long-running series - I never know what to read first! Especially in the case of some series, where the first book published is NOT necessarily the first one you want to read...!