Laura
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Lois McMaster Bujold:
(I keep bumping into the character limit!) After finishing The Hallowed Hunt, which I thoroughly enjoyed, I couldn't help but wonder how Ingrey and Ijada got along. Wencel had, at one point, offered to teach Ingrey if he'd but come visit him at his home, where he kept his library. Novel events went quite differently, of course. Is that knowledge something Ingrey and Ijada will ever find?
Lois McMaster Bujold
Good question; I 'd have to write a story to learn the answer. It is among other things unknown how much Horseriver was lying about that library, using it to explain his knowledge actually acquired by living through his times. It's also unknown if he left whatever he possessed behind, or destroyed it, although the progression of the story suggests the former. I'd think the Temple would be first in line to seize anything interesting, posthumously. I. & I. might get to see it later...
Ta, L.
Good question; I 'd have to write a story to learn the answer. It is among other things unknown how much Horseriver was lying about that library, using it to explain his knowledge actually acquired by living through his times. It's also unknown if he left whatever he possessed behind, or destroyed it, although the progression of the story suggests the former. I'd think the Temple would be first in line to seize anything interesting, posthumously. I. & I. might get to see it later...
Ta, L.
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Hi, huge fan here. Do you have any idea why ebook versions of the Penric & Des novellas are not available on Libby/Overdrive, but the audiobooks are? I'm on several libraries and the only ebook is "Penric's Demon." Usually there is an option to recommend books that your library does not have, but it's like the rest of the ebooks aren't even in Overdrive's system, even though they exist on amazon.
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