the straw and the camel's back

[mmegaera]

Some of you will have seen this twice, but...

Well, this is the end of an epoch for me. I've been a member of the Bujold mailing list for seventeen years, but I finally unsubscribed yesterday. Not, as most people apparently do, because of the volume, at least not in the traditional sense of the word, but because that volume simply got too ugly for me to deal with anymore. I'm not in a place where I can deal with that sort of ugliness right now, and may I say now how glad I am that there are other ways I'm staying connected with the many friends I did make there, including here?

Comments

[thnidu]

Bastard's demons! I'm sad to hear that the list has gone nasty, and I'm sure I do not want to go see in what way. I haven't followed it in a long time, though I'm not sure whether I canceled my subscription, or set it to no mail, or set my email to "skip inbox and file it". I'm a strong fan of the Vorkosigan saga and the World of the Five Gods, including Penric, and I _really really_ hope she finishes the series into a proper pentalogy, but I couldn't maintain interest in the Sharing Knife series past the first long book.

[mmegaera]

I'm about where you are with Lois's books (if I want to hang out with horrible relatives, I have plenty of my own, thanks, without reading the Sharing Knife books).

And no, you don't want to go read those bullies that have begun to populate the list.