Do you know the feeling?

[oneiriad]

When you've just got your hands on a new book, a shiny, new, lovely book - and it's the newest book in a series, an awesome series, which you love, and you have been waiting for this book, because even though you can read it free of charge online quite legally, you like physical books and you wanted to wait and now you have it and you can't wait, but at the same time, what if it isn't awesome, not that it can't possibly not be awesome, because the whole rest of the series is and how could this be any different, I mean, it's not like it's Anne McCaffrey or Stephen King or someone like that we're talking about, so of course it's awesome, but it's the only book in the series you haven't read, and once you've read it, there won't be more, unless you ever manage to get your claws into that short story that supposedly was never collected, because it was with a different publisher - and you totally would, didn't you get hold of the original collection of three short stories just to read the handful of connecting pages not in the omnibus's, but seriously, this is the last and there won't be more unless the lady writes more and of course, you can investigate those other series she's written, and you definitely will, but that doesn't change that this will be...

Do you know that feeling?

Or am I the only one ever feeling like that, like I can't wait and can't get started at the same time?

Psst. Guess the book and request a drabble? Because I'm a crazy, procrastinating girl who needs to get her writing gears going for Yuletide...

Comments

[aella_irene]

Cryoburn!

(Ivan! And, you know, she is writing something with the working title: Ivan: His Book.)

[oneiriad.livejournal.com]

However did you guess? Here I thought I was being all clever and obfuscating...

Drabble prompt?

Oh, and an Ivan book would be kind of awesome, yes :-)

[aella_irene]

Ivan, fatherless

The first two scenes have been linked from the Vorkosigan comms here and on DW, I think.

Here goes absolutely nothing, not my usual fandom - spoilers for Cryoburn

[oneiriad.livejournal.com]

Ivan used to be jealous of Miles.

True, the little twerp couldn't run and play rough like other boys, but he had something else. He had a Dad. A Dad who was the most important man on the planet and still had time to play with him. While Ivan just had the most formidable Mom on Barrayar (true, Aunt Cordelia came a close second) who would drag him out to the place his father died every year without fail. Of course he was jealous. Not that he'd ever say or anything.

Years later he's watching his cousin the Count at the Viceroy of Sergyar's funeral and...

No, the thing is, he's still bloody jealous.

[soho-iced.livejournal.com]

Yup, I recognise that feeling all right. I actually tend to put off reading books (including this one, as it happens) to enjoy it longer, if 'enjoy' is the right word.

Happy reading!