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I have the first book of that series in my possession and next on my reading list!
I've read and loved the Sharing Knife series a couple of times now. I'm sure that there will be another reread in the future.
I love them, have them on audiobook and listen to them on dog walks and in the car!
I own the eBooks and have read at least twice, and listened to the audiobooks from the library. I would probably put the series third in my ranking of your series's, but that is just because the Vorkosagan and 5 Gods are so very high. I consider the Sharing Knife to be very good indeed. But I do think that the story arc has reached a satisfactory completion. If you, Lois, get inspired I am sure you could do something more with this world, but unless you really develop a story idea that you WANT to write, it is good as it is.
Now, more Penric and Des comes higher on my wish list.
The Sharing Knife books are very good indeed. It is a varm and wonderful story. Good story arc and a varm and wonderful romance.
This was one of my favorite series to hand-sell here at the library. I have them in hard back and e-book both, so I can read them whenever I have the fancy to.
I re-read Sharing Knife regularly. Softness, you are in for a treat! I almost think I'm jealous, imagining you getting to read it for the first time. ;)
I admit I read it, but I can't put my finger on why it didn't click the way the Vor and Chalion books did. There wasn't anything wrong, and I suspect I'm not the only one who doesn't know.
I loved it too. It had a charm all its own.
WotFG has gods? Sharing Knife has none? I know I was personally touched by the spirituality and warmth and sincerity of the WofFG stories. They have an impact. Miles has an impact. I really enjoy the SK novels, and have reread them more than once, but there is less impact.
It took me a long time to finally set out to read The Sharing Knife. It was years after it had been completed.
I'm not entirely sure what held me back. I'd enjoyed everything Lois had published previously, starting back with Falling Free and Shards of Honor; I read Falling Free when it first came out, that was my introduction to Lois' writings.
It may have been that due to my having soured on Orson Scott Card's Alvin Maker series, I was hesitant to touch another series set in a similer miliu; if that was the case, it wasn't a conscious decision.
Ever since, I've regretted that delay. I've read through the multi-volume novel at least five times now.
The thoroughness of the envisioning of the world resulting from the creation of the malice, and the societies within it, and their interactions as a result of their only partial acceptance of their inter-dependence, and what occurs as a result of Fawn and Dag becoming involved and Dag's seeking a way to allow them to be an accepted couple in the eyes of his home society, fascinate me.
Plus, I'm always a sucker for a good romance. And hands down, The Sharing Knife is a very good romance!
John, I love the sentence:
"The thoroughness of the envisioning of the world resulting from the creation of the malice, and the societies within it, and their interactions as a result of their only partial acceptance of their inter-dependence, and what occurs as a result of Fawn and Dag becoming involved and Dag's seeking a way to allow them to be an accepted couple in the eyes of his home society, fascinate me."
This is what I love and admire most about the Sharing Knife series.
I always wondered about the adventures their children had.
I have reread the Sharing Knife series five or six times. Whenever I need to hang with friends. I'm grew up in northern Illinois, and my mother was a born and raised farm girl, who had the same patois that Fawn has. It's like these people were my relatives! The Mississippi River was in my front yard, and my father was a born and raised "river rat". So the river tales in the SK series resonate also. You have recreated the ambiance of a bygone era in the midwest to perfection. Thank you. (PS: I'd love some more Fawn and Dag....as well as Miles!....and Penric.) Wonderful, unique and deep characters all.
I must be one of these strange readers. I have read the Vorkosigans numerous time and tried twice at least to get interested in the Chalion series with little success. recently I have discovered the Shared Knife and I liked it a lot. Its peaceful pace, the ying-yang encounter between a man raised in a matriarchal society and a girl raised in a patriarchal one, the numerous levels of their sharing... I could go on for days... And if a short or long plot in this universe imposes itself one day, i would be there to read it.
For those who have trouble getting into the Chalion books (or Five Gods universe) through the original three novels, although I came to love them, on first reading I found them tough. I strongly suggest giving the novella Penric's Demon a try. Set chronologically between The Hallowed Hunt and the other two Chalion books, I find Penric a darling and strong competition to Miles for my favorite Bujold creation. Penric's Demon and the other 5 novellas in that sub-series not only tell some varied tales of some interesting characters, but also fill in world building into the Five Gods Universe, in my view making the novels easier to get into.
Count me as one where you have an overlap. I loved the Sharing Knife books when I first discovered them, as dead tree books, then again as Audible books, a third time as eBooks, and now they're on my re-read regularly list.
Some purists might not be interested but there are some Truly Brilliant Dharing Knife fanfic stoires on Archive Of Our Own. https://archiveofourown.org/works?utf...
Some might almost have been written be Lois they are so spot on.
I reread the Vorkosigan books regularly, and really love the Pen & Des series. I've read the Chalion books, but for some reason have had no desire to reread so far. Ditto the Sharing Knife - I own and have read the tetralogy, and bought the Children, which I haven't yet managed to read. (But my TBR pile is very high, mostly with rereads!)
I highly recommend Knife Children, although part of me wishes that Barr and Lily had managed to make it to Clear Creek. I am currently re-listening to selected items from the Vorkosigan series, especially ones with some Ivan in them. But I think my current favorite Bujold sequence are the Penric novellas. I just love Pen and Des and their friends and family.
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I've read and loved the Sharing Knife series a couple of times now. I'm sure that there will be another reread in the future.
I love them, have them on audiobook and listen to them on dog walks and in the car!
I own the eBooks and have read at least twice, and listened to the audiobooks from the library. I would probably put the series third in my ranking of your series's, but that is just because the Vorkosagan and 5 Gods are so very high. I consider the Sharing Knife to be very good indeed. But I do think that the story arc has reached a satisfactory completion. If you, Lois, get inspired I am sure you could do something more with this world, but unless you really develop a story idea that you WANT to write, it is good as it is. Now, more Penric and Des comes higher on my wish list.
The Sharing Knife books are very good indeed. It is a varm and wonderful story. Good story arc and a varm and wonderful romance.
This was one of my favorite series to hand-sell here at the library. I have them in hard back and e-book both, so I can read them whenever I have the fancy to.
I re-read Sharing Knife regularly. Softness, you are in for a treat! I almost think I'm jealous, imagining you getting to read it for the first time. ;)
I admit I read it, but I can't put my finger on why it didn't click the way the Vor and Chalion books did. There wasn't anything wrong, and I suspect I'm not the only one who doesn't know.
I loved it too. It had a charm all its own.
WotFG has gods? Sharing Knife has none? I know I was personally touched by the spirituality and warmth and sincerity of the WofFG stories. They have an impact. Miles has an impact. I really enjoy the SK novels, and have reread them more than once, but there is less impact.
It took me a long time to finally set out to read The Sharing Knife. It was years after it had been completed.I'm not entirely sure what held me back. I'd enjoyed everything Lois had published previously, starting back with Falling Free and Shards of Honor; I read Falling Free when it first came out, that was my introduction to Lois' writings.
It may have been that due to my having soured on Orson Scott Card's Alvin Maker series, I was hesitant to touch another series set in a similer miliu; if that was the case, it wasn't a conscious decision.
Ever since, I've regretted that delay. I've read through the multi-volume novel at least five times now.
The thoroughness of the envisioning of the world resulting from the creation of the malice, and the societies within it, and their interactions as a result of their only partial acceptance of their inter-dependence, and what occurs as a result of Fawn and Dag becoming involved and Dag's seeking a way to allow them to be an accepted couple in the eyes of his home society, fascinate me.
Plus, I'm always a sucker for a good romance. And hands down, The Sharing Knife is a very good romance!
John, I love the sentence:"The thoroughness of the envisioning of the world resulting from the creation of the malice, and the societies within it, and their interactions as a result of their only partial acceptance of their inter-dependence, and what occurs as a result of Fawn and Dag becoming involved and Dag's seeking a way to allow them to be an accepted couple in the eyes of his home society, fascinate me."
This is what I love and admire most about the Sharing Knife series.
I always wondered about the adventures their children had.
I have reread the Sharing Knife series five or six times. Whenever I need to hang with friends. I'm grew up in northern Illinois, and my mother was a born and raised farm girl, who had the same patois that Fawn has. It's like these people were my relatives! The Mississippi River was in my front yard, and my father was a born and raised "river rat". So the river tales in the SK series resonate also. You have recreated the ambiance of a bygone era in the midwest to perfection. Thank you. (PS: I'd love some more Fawn and Dag....as well as Miles!....and Penric.) Wonderful, unique and deep characters all.
I must be one of these strange readers. I have read the Vorkosigans numerous time and tried twice at least to get interested in the Chalion series with little success. recently I have discovered the Shared Knife and I liked it a lot. Its peaceful pace, the ying-yang encounter between a man raised in a matriarchal society and a girl raised in a patriarchal one, the numerous levels of their sharing... I could go on for days... And if a short or long plot in this universe imposes itself one day, i would be there to read it.
For those who have trouble getting into the Chalion books (or Five Gods universe) through the original three novels, although I came to love them, on first reading I found them tough. I strongly suggest giving the novella Penric's Demon a try. Set chronologically between The Hallowed Hunt and the other two Chalion books, I find Penric a darling and strong competition to Miles for my favorite Bujold creation. Penric's Demon and the other 5 novellas in that sub-series not only tell some varied tales of some interesting characters, but also fill in world building into the Five Gods Universe, in my view making the novels easier to get into.
Count me as one where you have an overlap. I loved the Sharing Knife books when I first discovered them, as dead tree books, then again as Audible books, a third time as eBooks, and now they're on my re-read regularly list.
Some purists might not be interested but there are some Truly Brilliant Dharing Knife fanfic stoires on Archive Of Our Own. https://archiveofourown.org/works?utf...Some might almost have been written be Lois they are so spot on.
I reread the Vorkosigan books regularly, and really love the Pen & Des series. I've read the Chalion books, but for some reason have had no desire to reread so far. Ditto the Sharing Knife - I own and have read the tetralogy, and bought the Children, which I haven't yet managed to read. (But my TBR pile is very high, mostly with rereads!)
I highly recommend Knife Children, although part of me wishes that Barr and Lily had managed to make it to Clear Creek. I am currently re-listening to selected items from the Vorkosigan series, especially ones with some Ivan in them. But I think my current favorite Bujold sequence are the Penric novellas. I just love Pen and Des and their friends and family.
