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Ethan Of Athos

Bujold, Lois McMaster
Ethan travels to Kline Station to track down some missing bio. materials to make babies with, since they don't have or believe in women on his planet! Yikes!

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6/2006

Falling Free

Bujold, Lois McMaster
How the Quaddies came to be. Pretty good, read it before, I think.

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6/2006

Horizon

Bujold, Lois McMaster
Book four of the series. Dag and Fawn head homeward, but meet up with a couple a malices along the way.

Words I Had To Look Up:

cantle (pg. 249) -- The raised rear part of a saddle.

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8/2010

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8/2016

Komarr

Bujold, Lois McMaster
Miles Vorkosigan investigates an incident on the Planet Komarr. Very good story.

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4/2000

Legacy

Bujold, Lois McMaster
Book two of the series, Fawn and Dag are married, but his people don't like it much.

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8/2010

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8/2016

Memory

Bujold, Lois McMaster
Miles Vorkosigan investigates who stole Simon's memory.

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12/1999

Miles Errant

Bujold, Lois McMaster
Vorkosigan Omnibus (#4)
This omnibus edition is fun to revisit Bujold's wonderful stories.

Contents:
The Borders of Infinity
Brothers in Arms
Mirror Dance

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3/2023

Miles In Love

Bujold, Lois McMaster
Vorkosigan Omnibus (#6)
I love reading these stories over and over again!

Contents:
Komarr
A Civil Campaign
Winterfair Gifts

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8/2023

Miles Mutants And Microbes

Bujold, Lois McMaster
Vorkosigan Omnibus (#5)
Contents:
Falling Free
Labyrinth
Diplomatic Immunity

I enjoyed this omnibus very much, even with the repeat of Labyrinth!

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4/2023

Miles, Mystery, And Mayhem

Bujold, Lois McMaster
Vorkosigan Omnibus (#3)
Contains:
Cetaganda
Ethan of Athos
Labyrinth.
Great stories, I am re-reading them in the omnibus edition.

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4/2023

Mirror Dance

Bujold, Lois McMaster
Miles Vorkosigan goes to Jackson's Whole to help his brother

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12/1999

Paladin Of Souls

Bujold, Lois McMaster
Ista goes on a pilgrimage.

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5/2012

Passage

Bujold, Lois McMaster
Book three in The Sharing Knife series. Fawn, Dag, and the rest of the crew (and captain) are in the south.

Words I Had To Look Up:

towhead (pg. 318) -- A sandbar or low-lying alluvial island in a river, especially one with a stand of trees.

Quote:

Not a tidy heart shot, but that straw bale sure wasn't getting away. (pg. 197)

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8/2010

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8/2016

Penric's Progress

Bujold, Lois McMaster
Three Penric stories, very good!

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8/2021

Penric's Travels

Bujold, Lois McMaster
Three Penric stories. Penric's Mission, Mira's Last Dance, The Prisoner Of Limnos. Very enjoyable!

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8/2021

The Curse Of Chalion

Bujold, Lois McMaster
A washed-up wreck from the wars begs a job in the scullery at the castle where he used to be a page. Gets job as tutor to princess. First book in Chalion series.

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5/2012

Vorkosigan's Game

Bujold, Lois McMaster
Three stories about Miles Vorkosigan.

QUOTE:

"Where are you?" Ivan demanded suspiciously. "Stuck in limbo." "Well, I don't want any of it stuck to me," said Ivan roughly, and punched off-line.

BONUS QUOTE:

I can't believe this. Trapped in Ryoval's basement with a sex- starved teenage werewolf. There was nothing about this in any of my Imperial training manuals...

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1/2000

Young Miles

Bujold, Lois McMaster
Vorkosigan Omnibus (#2)

Contents:
The Warrior's Apprentice
The Mountains of Mourning
The Vor Game
Author's Afterword

Quote:

It isn't easy, being Vor...

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3/2023

SOS Titanic

Bunting, Eve
A boy travels from Ireland to America, part of the way, on the good ship Titanic. Good story, but why do I not have any other Bunting books on my list, eh?

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5/2015

Bankok 8

Burdett, John
Thai police detective investigates the death of an American Marine, with the help of an FBI agent. Lots of Buddhist thoughts. Snakes. Observation on the Thai sex industry.

Words I Had To Look Up:

Glyph -- A symbol, such as a stylized figure or arrow on a public sign, that imparts information nonverbally. (pg. 307)

Quote:

The new age of biotechnology will require a highly developed intuition which operates outside of logic, and anyway the internal destruction of Western society will have reached such a pass that most of your resources will be concentrated on managing loonies. -- pg. 153

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6/2007
20 books displayed
[Babbit - Baker] [Baldacci - Barnard] [Barnard - Barnes] [Barnes - Barr] [Barr - Beanton] [Beanton - Beaton] [Beaton - Beaton] [Beaton - Benrey] [Berendt - Block] [Block - Block] [Block - Bosch] [Bosch - Brenaman] [Brennert - Bryson] [Bryson - Bujold] [Bujold - Burdett] [Burroughs - Bythell] 

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