Cordelia question!

[shimotsuki]

To any Vorkosigan fans out there: Do we know Cordelia's mother's first name?

ETA: Oh, that's interesting, someone has just posted a story where she's "Elizabeth." So is that canon?

ETA2: Wow, that was quick -- yes, she's Elizabeth. Thank you!

Good luck to everybody writing for the metamorfic_moon Summer Hallows Jumble and the bujold_fic Ficathon as deadlines approach. I know I could use some! ;)
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Comments

[glishara.livejournal.com]

Elizabeth! She's the doctor whose article Ethan reads in Ethan of Athos.

[shimotsuki.livejournal.com]

Oh, excellent! I had forgotten about that, and EoA is one canon source it wouldn't have occurred to me to check for this question.

Thank you.

[mrstater.livejournal.com]

I can't see the name Cordelia without hearing Anne Shirley say, "Could you call me Cordelia?"

/unhelpful comment

[shimotsuki.livejournal.com]

LOL!

Brace yourself, because I saw your post about book suggestions (which I'll hopefully read at lunch), and I'm definitely on an LMB kick lately, Ficathon aside. ;)

[mrstater.livejournal.com]

Oh good, because the Ender series has broken me into the sci-fi genre! I've been meaning to tell you that I think I can finally read LMB's stuff since I'm using an ebook reader and don't have to see the cheesy covers. ;)

[shimotsuki.livejournal.com]

LOL! Can't you just cover them with brown paper or something? Maybe they have the right idea in Japan, where they put a cover (with the bookstore's logo) over a book when you buy it...

Seriously, I don't think I can say that I like the Miles books better than Chalion and Paladin, but certainly as much -- and there's a very thoroughly developed universe, too.

[gilpin25.livejournal.com]

Hope first day back is going okay, and yes, much good luck to you re deadlines!:D

This icon is meant as a reflection of my current state of mind, not yours! LOL(

[shimotsuki.livejournal.com]

That icon is a great match for my current state of mind as well! ;)

Today was officially "registration day," or something. Classes start tomorrow, and my first classes aren't actually until Wednesday, so I haven't technically started-started yet. Today I was scrambling around online all day, trying to finalize the reading list for my seminar... I'm looking forward to the classes but at the same time not looking forward to the time-suck.

Now: Can I come up with a Vorkosigan ficlet in the next three hours? Here goes! ;P

[gilpin25.livejournal.com]

Now: Can I come up with a Vorkosigan ficlet in the next three hours? Here goes! ;P

I'd put money on it. :D

[shimotsuki.livejournal.com]

You'd have won, lol, but probably not high stakes, as it's only a ficlet. ;)

(Another wonderful icon! You do have the best icons.)

[gilpin25.livejournal.com]

(Another wonderful icon! You do have the best icons.)

A lot of them were from toocuteicons, which, as you can see, is recently and sadly no more. The icon-maker was very considerate and gave us all notice beforehand, so I have saved about twenty more to keep me going for a while!

That one of yours above is my fave to see on my f-list. It rather gives me a mental kick up the backside and says 'Stop faffing around here'! ;)

[shimotsuki.livejournal.com]

That's too bad about the icon maker, but how nice that you've saved up a stock to play with!

'Stop faffing around here'! ;)

LOL! That's why I like it, too. I don't know if you've made the acquaintance of one Kareen Koudelka in the Vorkosigan 'verse yet, but I'm very fond of her -- this is one of her lines.

[gilpin25.livejournal.com]

I don't know if you've made the acquaintance of one Kareen Koudelka in the Vorkosigan 'verse yet, but I'm very fond of her -- this is one of her lines.

No, my haphazard reading order hasn't introduced us yet (I've still got Memory sat patiently on my shelf*), but I did read your fic and felt I'd like her. Even more so now I know she'll tell me to stop faffing around!

Btw, I couldn't think of anything to say as a review that wasn't idiotic-sounding: "I don't know who this is but I hope to meet her (and Mark, for that matter) sooner rather than later!" But what I picked up about Cordelia and their relationship was tantalizing. :)

Partly your fault as I enjoyed Dicey's Child so much I'd like to read the rest of that series now. ;) Though I'm also having a Madeleine L'Engel craze. So many books, not enough time in a day!

[shimotsuki.livejournal.com]

I have to leave to go meet my statistics consultant[*] in about five minutes, but I couldn't not answer this, and who wouldn't rather think about books than work? ;P

Very glad to know you liked Dicey! That book is written in such a simple style, but I feel like there's a lot there and the simplicity must have been kind of hard to achieve. The other books in that series are also pretty good; Homecoming is the beginning of the whole thing, of course. Then there's a book that tells Jeff's story (Solitary Blue), which I really like, and one about Dicey as a young adult trying to run a boat business (Seventeen Against the Dealer). There are a couple more -- one for Mina (Come a Stranger), one for James and Sammy (Sons from Afar) -- that I've skimmed but haven't read properly. And I think there's one about Bullet, too.

I love L'Engle! Had you read her as a child, or is this a new discovery? Which ones are you reading?

And, Kareen appears mostly in Mirror Dance and A Civil Campaign. We first meet Mark in Brothers in Arms, and after that we find him where we find Kareen, lol, but I'm sure he's at least mentioned in Memory.

[*]This is a humanities stats consultant for the math-deprived like me. I tell him, "I want to know if these numbers are the same as these other numbers?" and he puts things in his computer and tells me what the answer is.

[gilpin25.livejournal.com]

who wouldn't rather think about books than work? ;P

Absolutely! I like the sound of your humanities stats consultant; I think I have managed to successfully forget at least 90% of life in a banking environment and could probably make a lot of use of him, lol.

That book is written in such a simple style, but I feel like there's a lot there and the simplicity must have been kind of hard to achieve.

I'll say more in something sporadic (one day very soon;)), but yes, it's the type of book I inwardly call 'a grower': where the characters and the story creep up on you almost unawares and you suddenly realize you're deeply involved in these people and their lives. It is very simple and easy to read and yet there is such depth to the characters: I ended up wanting to read Gram and Mr. Lingerle's stories as well. So, a great choice on your part that I would almost certainly never have come across otherwise. :)

I love L'Engle! Had you read her as a child, or is this a new discovery? Which ones are you reading?

I should have known you would. I'm fairly sure I read one of her books when very young, borrowed from my local library, but her granddaughter has got her first YA book coming out shortly, and there was an interview with her on one of the book blogs I follow where she talked about her famous gran and I wondered why on earth I hadn't read any more over the years. I eventually got second-hand copies of The Summer of the Great-Grandmother and Two-Part Invention, both of which I loved. I'm hoping to read the rest of The Crosswicks Journal before too long and then try some of her others.

I'm sure he's at least mentioned in Memory.

I shall have a Aha! moment of recognition. ;)