Owwie

[elfs]

If you have arthritis in your chest, and someone makes you laugh so hard for so long that it flares up and causes great pain, I don't suppose there's anything you can really do but take multiple doses of ibuprofen.

I just finished Bujold's A Civil Campaign.

Ow.

How does she do that?

"Ivan choked on his wine."

Ow.

Comments

[kengr]

There's a fanfic on the web somewhere that has Ivan (somewhat later) winding up in an affair of sorts. With another guy...

[mundens.livejournal.com]

She does write good don't she? :)

I've just finished reading that very book, Friday evening, and several times I had to sit back and admire the construction of a sentence.

[jeriendhal.livejournal.com]

LMB and Piers Anthony are my two insprirations to write. Lois because I want to write as well as she can some day, and Anthony because I know I can write better than him.

[memegarden.livejournal.com]

I have a couple books I keep around for that latter comparison.

[bolindbergh]

Reputedly, chapter 9 of aCC caused the destruction of some typesetting equipment since the typesetter was unwisely drinking a carbonated beverage while working.

[danceswithlife]

Her funniest book, and my favorite. I really was LOL during the dinner scene. Don't forget to read the short story, "Winterfair", that describes their wedding.

[danceswithlife]

Oh. Looked back through your journal and you did already read that :-)

As for the pain...

[lisakit.livejournal.com]

Wintergreen (diluted), Lavandin (oil from the spike lavender and rosemary hybrid plant *not* a mix of lavender and rosemary oils), Vetivert, Bitter Almond (highly diluted), and Arnica are all good oils for muscle pain. I have them all in a mix that I use regularly. Just rub any of them (or any combination thereof) into your skin and it penetrates to the muscle, relaxing it. I usually use about half shea oil and half lavandin as my diluter and then add about 1/2 oz of each of the others (makes about 10-12 oz). You might want to start more dilute than that though.

The dinner party, right?

[graydancer.livejournal.com]

That is one of my favorite of all time.

O seems to think that you and I would get along quite well. Reading a few entries, I suspect she's right.

Re: The dinner party, right?

[elfs.livejournal.com]

Actually, I winced through the dinner party; never was something meant to be funny so damn painful to read. It was throughout the Council of Counts and Gregor's wedding that I laughed so hard I was scaring the cat. That's how something like that should wrap up.

The keystone cops scene of the butter bug battle was... amusing slapstick... but kept distracting from Lois's amazing upward spiral. The relentless "and all the pieces fall satisfyingly into place" of the Council of Counts should not have been interrupted by it.

must be my devotion to slapstick...

[graydancer.livejournal.com]

...because while I liked her ending (of course, what was not to like?) the slapstick nature of the dinner party was the high point of the book for me.

Then again, I'm a connoisseur of the entire commedia d'ell arte so my tastes are probably not as refined as yours.

Re: must be my devotion to slapstick...

[elfs.livejournal.com]

Naw, I suspect I'm just much more sensitive to social pain than others. Miles' suffering was much uppermost on my mind.