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[nishatalitha]

So my book arrived! The Sharing Knife: Beguilment by Lois McMaster Bujold. It's lots of fun - there's this joy that seems to sing through it, even in the hard parts. Which makes me wonder what is going to happen to the pair of them in the sequal Legacy. I like both of the main characters, and for a change, for Bujold, that is, the book is written from the perspectives of only the two main characters - I know, she experimented with multiple perspectives in Civil Campagin, but since then, has mostly written just from one POV, and there is double the joy because of it. But Beguilement is a love story, even more so than Hallowed Hunt was, and it's one of the reasons I like it. I think that's the one thing I would have liked most to be included in Curse of Chalion, something about falling in love with Cazaril from Betriz's perspective.

She wrote Beguilement and Legacy as one book and then split it, so there should only be six months or so to go before the second one is released. I think the fact that I know there will be a sequal makes me more impatient for it to arrive. But then, I can never savour books the first time through.

And it's so pretty. The icon is an amalgamation of the two covers, and it is actually a very pretty scene from the book. Accurate too, for all that I can tell.

When I haven't been squeeing over my new book this week, I've been generally quite tired. Hamilton proved to be more stressful than I expected. I mean, I kinda expected it, but I didn't expect to be completely put off wedding preparations from it!

Haven't been for a walk tonight, but I've gone walking every other day since I got back, more or less alternating between walking at lunch and walking after work at home. I haven't been today because I came home from work early with an incipent migraine. It didn't actually turn into a migraine (for which I thank my quiet workplace), but it was close, and I spent much of the hours between 1.00pm and 5.00pm sleeping. I should probably have something to eat soon - I haven't eaten since morning tea, what with the coming home and sleeping and everything.

I have a haircut tomorrow afternoon. I'm really looking forward to it.

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[altariel.livejournal.com]

A Bujold post seemed the best place for me to apologize for dropping the ball on making sure you got your story in the Bujold ficathon. I am going to pick up your story myself, but it will be a few weeks before I can lay my hands on a copy of The Curse of Chalion. How would Betriz's POV on falling in love with Cazaril suit?

Sincere apologies: work and life hit with a vengeance over the summer, but it would have been easy and polite to drop you a note much sooner.

[nishatalitha.livejournal.com]

Ooooh, fic!

...I was actually thinking recently that the reasons why Betriz fell in love with Cazaril and something from her perspective is the thing that's missing most from the book. I like Cazaril, but then, I get to see the inside of his head.

...that'd be lovely.

[altariel.livejournal.com]

It will take me a few weeks,but it's yours :-)