Nikohl K.

http://nwhyte.livejournal.com/1796565.html

This is an absolute must-have for any fan of Lois McMaster Bujold's Vorkosigan books, which reach their dramatic climax in her 1999 novel, A Civil Campaign. The editors examine the novel's debt to Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen, Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë, Gaudy Night by Dorothy L. Sayers, the Regency romances of Georgette Heyer and the works of Shakespeare as well as various other sources; they then give a set of page-by-page annotations to explain references and in-jokes as they come up, and finally a long long list of further reading (which I was gratified to discover includes my name). It does exactly what I want of such books, deepening my enjoyment of the original work, encouraging me to query it and my other reading more intensely in future, and pointing me to other literature I might enjoy. (I know Pride and Prejudice and Jane Eyre, and have read a lot of Sayers but not Gaudy Night; and Heyer is unknown to me.) I cannot recommend this highly enough… (meer)