For the umpteenth time, Your Humble Blogger has read Cordelia's Honor (Riverdale: Baen 1996) by Lois McMaster Bujold. This is an omnibus edition of Shards of Honor and Barrayar, which were written some five years (and three or four books) apart, but I read them for the first time as one book, as they are printed here. It has become one of my top five (or so) comfort books. Oh, heck, I’m not going to actually review this book; I like it too much. So, instead, here are Vardibidian’s comfort books, read in the tub or in bed, better for Vardibidian than potato chips or ice cream.
- Lois McMaster Bujold, Cordelia's Honor; but you knew that.
- Dick Francis, Hot Money; I’m putting this one on the list over The Edge, although in truth I’ll just be thinking ‘a Dick Francis’.
- Samuel Shellabarger, Prince of Foxes; no excuses, it’s just a comfort book.
- Mary Renault, The Mask of Apollo; an old friend.
- Dorothy L. Sayers, Busman’s Honeymoon; I pretty much read them all once a year or so, but this is the comfort one.
- P.G. Wodehouse, Leave it to Psmith; a perfect novel.
Redintegro Iraq,
-Vardibidian.