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regallibellbright · 2 years ago

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I’m rereading alongside a Tor.com reread club from back after Gentleman Jole and the Red Queen was first published.

Some excerpts as they pertain to the current book:

“In most cases where I’ve only read the book once, it’s because it hasn’t been convenient. I lost my copy, or it came out after A Civil Campaign and I was busy rereading that. Whether I’ve read the book one time or a thousand, I usually give it a thoughtful skim before embarking on the reread. This time, we’re flying blind because Mirror Dance is terrifying.” - Staring Into the Abyss of Mirror Dance

“Nothing clearly bad has happened yet. Mark gets on the Ariel and no one gets tortured or dies. That’s it. We’re OK. Everyone is OK except Mark.” - Chapters 1-2

“As of the end of chapter four, no one has been killed.” Chapters 3-4

I share Ellen Cheeseman-Meyer’s sense of looming dread. Here it comes.

#vorkosigan saga #mirror dance #i guess this is a vorkosigan saga liveblog now #Chapter Five gets a post to itself. In case you too did not remember which is the chapter where It Happens #Memory’s one of my favorites because the lows are LOW but the highs are spectacular #this one… ‘no one gets tortured or dies (yet)’ really does sum it up #I can reread October Daye’s increasingly inventive methods of exsanguinating Toby without blinking #but Bujold has a gift for paychologically torturing her characters and making it feel BRUTAL

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