Comparative mothering

[larryhammer]

Ilane of Mindelan* is Cordelia Vorkosigan** with a dye job.

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* Keladry's mother in The Protector of the Small books*** by Tamora Pierce.

** Miles Vorkosigan's mother in various books**** by Lois McMaster Bujold.

*** Which despite the series title***** are truly excellent, and if you don't know that because haven't read them you march out Right Now and Get Them: First Test, Page, Squire, and Lady Knight. Four paperbacks.****** That's not a lot to ask for, is it? Not when you'll totally thank me later.

**** I'm not bothering******* to pimp these for obvious reasons.

***** It is silly. It even gets lightly mocked when it finally comes up******** in the text.

****** Almost every library has them, too, so price is no excuse.

******* I'll stop this insanity now. Really. I can stop anytime.*********

******** Very late in the last book, as it turns out. I suspect Pierce named the quartet too soon, before she realized how awkward it would be to work in.

********* "Hi, my name is Larry, and I'm addicted to em-dashes and — and footnotes.**********"

********** Nested.

---L.

Comments

[sartorias.livejournal.com]

Dang, my screen shows this in such tiny print I cannot read it.

Ah well, I gotta go to the slave mines now anyway, sigh.

[larryhammer]

It's mostly Tamora Pierce pimpage buried in a pile of teh silly.

---L.

[stillnotbored.livejournal.com]

A big pile of teh silly. *g*

[larryhammer]

Teh recursive silly!

---L.

[sienamystic.livejournal.com]

Yay, Tamora Pierce pimpage!

[larryhammer]

And we're six books away from Tris at Lightsbridge University. Wa!

---L.

[borntofr4g.livejournal.com]

That's so many asterisks that I'd swear I was looking at a sea urchin party, not a journal entry.

[larryhammer]

Spider family reunion, actually. I stole the images from their Flickr stream.

---L.