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[mrissa]

What are your favorite comfort reads? Which books do you reach for when you're sad or harried or upset? And why? Or don't you read that way, and what do you do instead?

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[dd-b.livejournal.com]

I can read pretty much any Smith book by itself at this point without any confusion. I tend to pick First Lensman or Skylark Duquesne or Subspace Explorers most, I think.

Rereading an entire Smith series is equivalent to about one volume in a lot of modern series, after all.

I've recently acquired a 2nd edition hardcover of The Skylark of Space, which is interesting because it has a different text from all the paperback editions. Dunno if there's going to be a detailed booklog article some day or not; I wish I had both in ASCII. (I'd really need the magazine text too for that, anyway; it's supposed to be roughly the same as the early hardcover editions, but I'd need to check.)

ACC is the only Bujold that I've really bonded to that way. The others I merely like very much, so far.