Tuesday. Sunny and cold. Trash and recycling at the curb. Breakfast was cottage cheese with canned peaches and toast. Reward for getting the trash and recycling to the curb in 2F/-16F, cookie with second cup of tea.
Lunch will likely be the last yam in the larder, which ought to be a song. Looks like I will be hitting the grocery this morning, too. How the errands do pile up.
Eye doctor appointment in an hour. Need to write a couple checks so I can throw them at the post office along with my holiday cards while I’m out in the world.
Finished Tie Me Knot, which brings me to 60 books read this year. In 2024, I read 61 books (including Diviner’s Bow TWICE), so I’ll probably match last year.
I do believe I will be scheduling a read of the Liaden Universe novels, in publication order, for 2026. I have never read the series straight through, though I’ve obviously read older books as they came up for reprint, so this will be … an experience.
How’s everybody doing this morning?
I’m thinking of doing another complete reread myself. Is there a reason you want to read the novels in publication order rather than reading them according to their own internal chronology? What will you be looking for by choosing publication order? I ask because I really am curious. My brain seems to require keeping everything in chronological order in order to follow characters and their surrounding events mentally. I was happiest when I discovered that someone on Wikipedia had helpfully catalogued everything, slotting in the short stories and which titles they appeared in so that I could find them without scrambling through all the collections each time.
I like to start my re-read of the entire series of novels in universe order (starting with Crystal Soldier) whenever you give us the ‘Submitted to Madame’ message. By the time the new one is published, I have refreshed myself of the entire universe.
In RE: my previous comment . . . Huh. Correction–I *thought* that’s where I found the helpful list of internal order for both novels and short stories, but I don’t see it there now. Somehow I had managed to make my own list, which I saved several years ago and I’ve kept updated. (shrugs)
The psychiatrist Eric Berne wrote a Foreword to the Revised Edition of his “A Layman’s Guide to Psychiatry and Psychoanalysis”. In it, he wrote: “Rereading … at times I had the well known Wilde reaction: ‘I wish I’d said that!’ It was agreeable, after a moment’s reflection, to remember that I had.”
I believe you will feel the same, many times, as you reread All Of Liad.
https://sharonleewriter.com/liaden-universe-correct-reading-order/
https://sharonleewriter.com/liaden-universe-which-book-is-which/
I tend to think of the short stories as asides, and not necessary! to! the! canon!
On the other hand, I have a . . . unique relationship with the universe as a whole.