Apr. 5th, 2019

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This morning I drove Blitzen to the vet (on five hours' sleep), on the off chance that they'd make room in their schedule for her, even though they don't normally do surgery on Fridays. And they did. She's in the guest room now, and I'm going to have to avoid her until she's feeling a bit better, because seeing me makes her run around in a tizzy and she needs to rest.

Meanwhile, apparently Oberon thinks this is his chance for a power play. In the half hour that I sat outside to read, he attacked the much smaller Parker at least three times and provoked his mother into hissing at him twice. I think he's going to get his come-uppance when Blitzen emerges. That won't be for a week, though, as the vet says her come-hither pheromones will last that long so I need to keep her indoors.

The Ducks women played their Final Four game today, a very close game that was tied 12 times including with just 80 seconds to go, but they lost. It was a fun game to watch.
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Elizabeth Moon, Oath of Fealty.

Late last summer, I read the omnibus The Deed of Paksennarion, and this was a sequel to that. I had a lot of feelings about The Deed of Paksennarion. The first book wasn't even a story, properly, but more a chronicle - it just told what happened to Paks, with no real suspense or resolution. The first half of the second book was basically a D&D dungeon crawl. After that, things got more interesting, and I was enjoying the books, right up until our author decided that Paks needed to endure horrible rape and torture scenes (with no particular emotional or physical scarring). Honestly, it seemed gratuitous, and even though Paks came out of it okay, why should the reader? So I procrastinated reading the sequel for about six months, until it was almost due at the library. (I didn't read the prequel either, although I'd checked it out at the same time.)

But finally I read this one, the first in a five-volume story set immediately after Deed of Paksennarion. And it was fine. I went to the library and got the others. Fingers crossed that she doesn't think we need more trauma.

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