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 “…His outflung hands traced over the threads of his rug, passed loop by loop through some patient woman’s hands. Or maybe she hadn’t been patient. Maybe she’d been tired, or irritated, or distracted, or hungry, or angry. Maybe she had been dying. But her hands had kept moving, all the same.”

Curse of Chalion, Lois McMaster Bujold
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MWT posted this on her tumblr. I haven’t read the other three books, but I definitely think of Curse of Chalion and the Queen’s Thief books as connected. There’s a straight line from the Sermon of the Cups to “If I am the pawn of the gods, it is because they know me so well, not because they make my mind up for me.” And surely Gen would sympathize with Caz’s description of being loved by the gods “as a teamster loves his mule that carries his baggage, whipping it over the high passes”.
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 Yuletide 2018 recs, first edition!

Lord Peter Wimsey - Dorothy L. Sayers
Katherine Climpson explores the documentation of an unusual example of medieval matrimony.
 
It's an 'as seen by later historians' fic! I love these. And of course Peter and Harriet are Peter and Harriet still, even in medieval times.
 
Chalion Saga - Lois McMaster Bujold
First through the stone arches, with a self-supplied fanfare of unladylike but triumphant whoops, rode a pair of young women on blowing horses belly-splashed with mud.
 
This one is Betriz's story. I've always loved Betriz, and this story makes her shine, with all her courage, joy, and loyalty. 
 
Murder on the Orient Express (2017)
If Linda was honest with herself, she’d only done what she’d done because Sonia would have laughed to hear of it.
 
Everything you need to know about this story is communicated by the tags: "Ensemble Cast; Post-Canon; They Provide....Leverage"

(crossposted to pillowfort)

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