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wow, so a new pope. My mother is stunned (in a good way)--she never thought she'd see a non-European pope in her lifetime. She & my dad were having lunch with their priest (which they do every week, so you know, no, I don't share my writing with them, koff) when it was announced; apparently, she whipped out her iPad and started googling him at the restaurant ('well,' she said, 'you know I don't eat') when they realized it wasn't the Italian frontrunner. ::beams:: This from the woman who 'didn't need anything electronic'. hah.

Circling back to What I'm Reading Wednesday...

What I'm Reading Now
The Dark Enquiry (Deanna Raybourn) - I'm very happy to see that Aquinas remains in Julia's employ; people are just starting to die. I like Julia but she is suffering in comparison with Cordelia Naismith.

Barrayar (Bujold) - I went and raided Oldest's bookshelves for this once I finished Shards. So far I'm only a few pages in, so I can't offer much but Oldest assures me I will continue to love Cordelia.

Grave Mercy (Robin LaFever) -- Still haven't made much progress, but still not giving it up.

What I Just Finished
To Marry A Prince (Sophie Page) -- SO much better than the last royal-with-commoner debacle. It's actually kind of sweet and mellow and while nothing massively exciting happened, I found myself wanting to know more about the characters, all of them, so I think we can call it a success.

Shards of Honor (Lois McMaster Bujold) - I really did (as predicted) love Cordelia and Aral, enough that I mostly didn't care about the semi-odd pacing. As mentioned above, went off to find the next book as soon as I finished this one.

What I'm Reading Next
I swear I'm buckling down with the nun assassins next. Also, if comixology ever un-fucks their downloads, I have a whackload of Marvel #1s to read through.

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i love cordelia and aral SO DAMN MUCH. "barrayar" is one of my favorite books in the series, and it contains cordelia's Crowning Moment of Awesome.

Oldest has much the same opinion and I can't believe I haven't read any of these yet, but I'm enjoying them now. Cordelia is pretty awesome already, so I can't wait to see what's to come. :D

He's still Italian. His parents immigrated from there to Argentina. So in a lot of ways he's non-European, but they still snuck in an Italian.

hah, my mom actually did say that, too--she said, 'he's Italian like I'm Italian' because her family is from Calabria, so we get the food and the crazy relatives w/o the trying to farm on solid rock like the rest of the family

Finished the nun assassins book yesterday.:) Will definitely read the sequels!

Might have to look into some of the others too. Where would you steer me?

I can't hit my groove with the nun assassins; I keep reading in little bits and having to go back and re-read. If I can't get it now, spring break is coming in a few weeks; I should have a couple of hours then to dig in.

If you haven't read any of the Vorkosigan Saga, I am pretty sure you'll find more than one favorite character.