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Oct. 12th, 2023 07:41 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
beccaelizabethToday I read the first novella in
Penric's Labors, by Lois McMaster Bujold
It was very pleasing, and showed you around a new place while making the plot go and introducing the characters *and* fitting in a happy ending.
Penric was not as swift as the reader, but Penric does not know he is in a novella, so everything is going to fit together and the clues have to happen quite quickly.
I have had this book on the To Read pile since it was new in hardback, but I haven't been reading as much lately. Being novellas makes it easier, I can finish a bit and do something else.
Also today mum brought me a new present
https://jeremyshomestore.co.uk/jellycat/bashful-red-dragon-by-jellycat/
Bashful the red dragon
(possibly his particular name will not be Bashful but that is on his label, so.)
He is pleasing with a good texture and I like how he moves and that his horns go in different directions. So I have been holding him since he arrived and we read a book together. New soft friend!
also today we had to do stressful admin so it is a good day for a new soft friend.
I forget sometimes that simple things continue to work even when you are a grown up.
Bashful red dragon is sitting with Awesome the unicorn and Rainbow Heart Bear. He is smaller than both of them but they are pleasing sizes for different things. Very good all of them.
Pretty good day
:-D
Penric's Labors, by Lois McMaster Bujold
It was very pleasing, and showed you around a new place while making the plot go and introducing the characters *and* fitting in a happy ending.
Penric was not as swift as the reader, but Penric does not know he is in a novella, so everything is going to fit together and the clues have to happen quite quickly.
I have had this book on the To Read pile since it was new in hardback, but I haven't been reading as much lately. Being novellas makes it easier, I can finish a bit and do something else.
Also today mum brought me a new present
https://jeremyshomestore.co.uk/jellycat/bashful-red-dragon-by-jellycat/
Bashful the red dragon
(possibly his particular name will not be Bashful but that is on his label, so.)
He is pleasing with a good texture and I like how he moves and that his horns go in different directions. So I have been holding him since he arrived and we read a book together. New soft friend!
also today we had to do stressful admin so it is a good day for a new soft friend.
I forget sometimes that simple things continue to work even when you are a grown up.
Bashful red dragon is sitting with Awesome the unicorn and Rainbow Heart Bear. He is smaller than both of them but they are pleasing sizes for different things. Very good all of them.
Pretty good day
:-D
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Date: 2023-10-13 03:34 pm (UTC)I like your point about Pen not knowing he's in a novella, I think that's probably his natural state of being, he's a character from a big sprawling novel doing these little bits where he just about has time to get his head around them. I find I really want to read the 'shadow novel' that takes place in and around and beyond the first three Penric stories, the one about him coming to terms with sorcery and its limits, and who he and Des are. It sort of largely happens offscreen with some of the highlights in the novellas.