[LMB] (news-chat) Miles in Love in Print

[Lois McMaster Bujold]

Hi all --

    And Happy New Year's Eve! -- or New Years, for some.

    My 'eve gift was two cartons of _Miles in Love_ -- shipped straight 
from the printer -- which is a $14 trade paperback.  The cover actually 
looks quite classy.  With the two novels, the novella, and a new 
Afterword, it makes for a hefty volume and, I hope, a pretty good value.

    What I'd been watching eagerly for was the galleys of _The Sharing 
Knife, Vol. 3: Passage_, which were supposed to have arrived Saturday 
morning but still haven't shown.  Delayed in dispatching or transit, I 
suppose.  Can't pursue it till Wednesday, now.  I'll just have to find 
another project for New Year's Day.   I have a copy of _The Elegant 
Universe_ from the library, a stack of other books, and a home office 
due for its annual shoveling-out, so I won't lack for options.

    Tonight: pizza, wine, and DVDs with a couple of close friends, very 
low-key, which is just about my definition of an ideal party.

    And better still, my right ear functions again.  Like Miles, I now 
have a prosthetic bone transplant.  I have back about 80%, a trifle 
muddy when listening to music tho' that may yet clear out some more, but 
just fine for conversation, which had become a strain in monaural.  
Hooray for 21st Century surgery! 

     Ta, L.