Two Postscripts

[mrissa]

1) I want to thank all of you who have been reassuring about our decision to go this weekend and all of you who have expressed your good wishes for my family and Mark's side of it in specific. I really value your support and (particularly, for reasons I don't want to go into here and now) your reassurance. Thank you. Very, very much.

2) I'm absolutely and non-sarcastically sure that it is a coincidence that the things I packed for comfort reading are all by Minnesotans. Still: Teckla, Brothers in Arms, The Secret Country, and Growing Up Weightless. Strange, that. (I picked those particular volumes of Brust and Bujold because that's where I am in my rereading of those two series, not because they're any more favorite than Orca and Cetaganda.)

(In my head, I now hear pameladean's inflections when I read the dialog she's written. It's very like having her read me a bedtime story. I mentally snuggle into the covers and relax. I never was put to sleep by bedtime stories, so that part isn't a problem. My poor Aunt Doris would try to get me to read to put me to sleep. Hah.)

Take care. Hug your old people if you can.

Comments

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Pamela doesn't sound particularly Minnesotan. Some, but not particularly.

Chocolate: always of interest, almost never a necessity. That is, almost never a necessity from other people: we keep a stash in house, some of which is packed in the front seat bag with the CDs and the fruit leather and the granola.

[pameladean]

You and Eric and I are all at the same place in the Vorkosigan Saga. Well, Eric is rereading the ones I've already lent him because he hasn't got anything after MEMORY yet, but still.

Oh dear oh dear, I hope all my characters don't sound alike. Very glad that the effect does not induce somnolence, though.

Pamela

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

It's the difference between thinking the characters all have the same voice and being able to hear someone reading their different voices to you. My dad's Sam Gamgee obviously doesn't sound like his Galadriel, but it's still Dad's voice doing the reading. I think there are three things here with similar terminology: voice in reading, voice in writing style in general, and characters' voices within that style. Clear as mud?

We're in Milwaukee safely. Only 17 more hours of driving to go. Not tonight, though.

[porphyrin.livejournal.com]

Many hugs.

Thinking of you & Mark.

Hang in there.