Sharing Knife: Poll!

[shimotsuki]

It looks like there are a few people who are interested in a read-along of the Sharing Knife series!

I'm not quite sure what the best way is to do this. A super-organized person would probably post one discussion post per chapter, lol, but I'm not that organized. (Besides, doesn't that make it feel more like homework?) And it sounds like people could use a little time to find the books and read. So...

...a poll.

Please note that I'm not expecting that everyone will be able to drop everything and comment all over the discussion post in real-time; the posts will be there, and we can keep on discussing things if people have more thoughts or want to go back to earlier sections. So even if you want to jump in a month later, why not? :)

[Poll #1849766]

Read-alongers, let me know what you think!

For the record, I have started reading and am enjoying the series muchly. To the tune of staying up a little too late reading once or twice. ;)
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Comments

[roh-wyn.livejournal.com]

I may have messed up your poll by picking both the "one per book" and the "one post per few chapters" options. ;) The point is, I'm happy with either, but I understand the "one per book" discussion might be a bit harder to follow.

I'm out of town this weekend (fandom meetup!), but I could definitely read over the course of the next week or so.

Looking forward to a new world!

[shimotsuki.livejournal.com]

No worries -- I deliberately used check-boxes instead of radio buttons, precisely because I thought people might want to pick more than one option. (Yes, I did just spend my lunch break coding a poll, lol. My excuse is that my lunch buddies M and K are both on vacation this week, so it's just me up here on the third floor today.)

Have fun on the fandom meetup!

[roh-wyn.livejournal.com]

All downloaded on The Kindle, and I even read the first two pages of the first book! I feel so accomplished, lol.

It's very slow here this week too. And next week, with an official holiday smack in the middle? It will be a ghost town here. Unfortunately, I've used up about half my vacation time for the year, so I'm reluctant to take anymore until the fall.

[shimotsuki.livejournal.com]

I always feel like downloading something (or photocopying an article) is practically as good as actually reading it, lol.

Unfortunately, I've used up about half my vacation time for the year, so I'm reluctant to take anymore until the fall.

That's frustrating, especially if your time isn't being used for anything interesting. :/ Here's where I go back to a conversation you and I had last winter where I was whining about being so busy at work and you were trying to make me see straight, lol -- I need to acknowledge that I do really appreciate the schedule flexibility I get to have in the summer. I need to have two article manuscripts and all my pre-semester course prep (including for a new course, ouch) ready by mid-August, or I'll be in bad shape going forward. But it's true there's nothing stopping me from working from home, or working from another state on a family visit. Or (for example!) taking an extra day before and after the conference in Munich to do a little sightseeing. (The Munich conference is where I'll be presenting a chunk of one of those article projects, so that at least is me being "on message.")

[katyhasclogs.livejournal.com]

I have ordered the books from Amazon now (my library only stocks the Vorkosigan series), so hopefully I'll have them by the end of the week. After that I think I could comfortably read a book a week, so discussion can move pretty quickly as far as I'm concerned.

Looking forward to it!

[shimotsuki.livejournal.com]

Let's hope Amazon is quick! I hate it when I'm waiting for something I want to read to arrive, lol.

I picked up Book 1 last year sometime, but got #2-4 out of the library. I think I may be looking to remedy that, though, heh.

[katyscarlett76.livejournal.com]

I've ordered the first book so hopefully it will come in the next couple of days in which case I'll be good to go on Monday if we're doing a few chapters per discussion. If we go for the whole book then I'll need a little more time. Number of chapters depends, how long are the chapters generally? I would say three chapters per discussion as long as they are not too long.

Excited! Looking forward to getting into a good book!

[shimotsuki.livejournal.com]

I hope the post owls are speedy so you can start reading soon! I'm definitely finding it fun.

You're very right that when we start ought to depend on how much we're breaking down the discussions. I'll see what further answers come in today and tomorrow.

I don't have the books with me just now, but I'm thinking the chapters are "medium-long" -- maybe on the order of chapters in Curse of Chalion? Not little short ones like you can get in thrillers, but not too long either. I actually tried to check this out on Google Books this morning, but I couldn't view enough pages to tell, lol.

[alias-amy.livejournal.com]

I'm not an official read-alonger because I already have 2 books that I'm supposed to read and a mountain of work besides, but I am downloading the first book on Kindle so that in theory I can pop in, or at least follow your discussion!

[shimotsuki.livejournal.com]

Yay! Come by when you can. ;)

[wildmagelet.livejournal.com]

In some ways, for a multiple book series, I think one post per book works really because sometimes it's easier to took about the plot as a whole and discuss where it's going and how it fits into the rest of the series, whereas things can be very fragmented with just a few chapters. Of course, you probably miss discussing a lot of the smaller details that way - I'm really open to either. :)

[shimotsuki.livejournal.com]

I was originally sort of assuming we would just do one post per book, but as I thought about it some more, I realized it might depend on how fast everybody wanted to read through these...

By the time the discussion actually starts, I will probably be on a reread anyway. ;) Which I'm quite looking forward to.

[etiam-quietus.livejournal.com]

Got it from the library, but they only had the audiobook version via electronic media, no kindle version (boo hiss). It's downloading as I type.

[shimotsuki.livejournal.com]

Ooh, an audiobook would be fun!

You'll have to tell me whether the audiobook does different accents for farmer characters versus Lakewalker characters. ;) From the eye-dialect in the books, it looks like Bujold has southern-Midwest-shading-into-Southern in mind, maybe for both groups. They say things like "goin'" and "might could" sometimes.

[philomytha.livejournal.com]

I'm glad you're enjoying it! I don't have any strong opinions on what kind of discussion you hold when, so I didn't vote in the poll, but I do look forward to hearing what you think!

[shimotsuki.livejournal.com]

I'm looking forward to seeing what everyone has to say!