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While I was backing up old files on my laptop the other day, I discovered my proto-booklog from 2006, before I actually got brave and/or self-important enough to Share My Thoughts With the Internet! Becca-from-five-years-ago apparently had this to say to herself about Diplomatic Immunity:

Not exactly the slapstick comedy of the last one, and I don’t think quite as strong, but still pretty riveting (the disease plot was creepy, and I like Bel, but what on earth happened to the whole character of Ekaterin?)

Future Becca - who does not have an eyepatch or a goatee or an all-leather outfit, how have I been wasting these past five years? - finds herself pretty much in agreement with Past Becca's commentary. I like creepy galactic plague plots, I like the quaddie society, I like that Bel gets to be much more of an independent person (and with less of the problems that twitched at me about the way the narrative talks about Bel in previous books, too) but where on earth is Ekaterin for most of the plot? Given that this book is marketed as 'Miles and Ekaterin fight crime together!' I feel like Ekaterin is a bit underused.

(Also, as always, I miss the Barrayaran cast of characters.)

Still, it is a perfectly decent Vorkosigan book, and now I am officially caught up and ready for Cryoburn when it comes in for me at the library.

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Other things I discovered while backing up documents: some not-quite-as-old fic-bits I never posted. Most of which never will be posted, but on consideration I have decided I like this well enough to inflict it on the world.

Title: Gone Fishing
Characters: Roy Mustang, Riza Hawkeye
Word Count: 987
Summary: In eight or so years of nonstop political scheming, there may have been one faint doomed attempt at a vacation.

( “Lieutenant,” he says, “do you know much about fishing?” )