Like everybody else this week, I was supposed to read Shadow Ticket. But I’ve come down with yet another virus of some sort, and so I’m comforting myself by re-reading another Vorkosigan book.
This one I’ve only read once before, I think.
And it’s one of those patch-up books — that is, it’s three novellas with a framing story that has Miles in a hospital bed telling these stories.
I skipped the first of the novellas — The Mountains of Mourning — because I think I’ve read that one more times already. Was it also included in some anthology or something? And I remembered it being as something of a downer.
The second novella is a Vorkosigan classic. Lots of fun; just what the doctor would order if the doctor ordered novellas.
The final novella has a very satisfying ending, but is very claustrophobic and grim otherwise. Not ideal for somebody with a bit of a fever.
Now what… perhaps I’ll read another Vorkosigan book? Or perhaps I should nap for the third time today.
Borders of Infinity (1987) by Lois McMaster Bujold (buy used, 4.26 on Goodreads)