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Why Barrayar is my favorite book
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Why Barrayar is my favorite book

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Monalisa Foster
Dec 29, 2024
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I wasn’t planning on a third post about Stakes Characters, but I’m going to do one anyway. Continued from Part 2.

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Bujold’s Barrayar (1991) is my absolute favorite book and not just of the series. I am re-reading it for the umpteenth time, specifically for the stakes character aspect and it occurred to me that the reason it’s th…

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