Becoming a Vampire Without Being Bitten: Reading Expands Our Self-Concepts, Study Sho

[Sydney's Mom]

Originally Posted by DixieGal

What does this imply with regard to books portraying violence or sexual predation? That immediately disturbed me when reading the article.

I usually identify with the victim or the detective. If there isn't a likely hero, I probably won't read it.

[jgaiser]

Originally Posted by Nyssa

The Vorkosigan Saga is patiently sitting on my TBR list. I'm probably going to have to choose between reading it vs rereading the Honor Harrington series.

I've never really got into the Honor Harrington series. Read the first and got about half way through the second. But really like the Vorkosigan books, even the first two which were almost too much 'Romance'.

[Nyssa]

Originally Posted by jgaiser

I've never really got into the Honor Harrington series. Read the first and got about half way through the second. But really like the Vorkosigan books, even the first two which were almost too much 'Romance'.

The technical descriptions in the first one were a little off-putting at first, but once I got into the actual story, and started learning about, not only Honor, but the people around her, I was hooked. My problem was that I read them way too quickly. So, by the time I was maybe a quarter of the way through book 10, I just got burned out.

That was about 4 years ago; they've been calling me back to them.