Unintentional as it was, my random order of reading Bujold stuff actually has some interesting payoffs. For instance, the two most recent reads were “A Civil Campaign” and “Cordelia’s Honor”, and I read them in that order. Which is to say, I read the one that was chronologically (in novel land) 30 years later first. So, the first time through, reading it, was like reading as part of the younger generation, that didn’t really know what had happened 30 years before. Then reading through bits and pieces the second time I caught so much more. And it was a good story both times. But the bit about the couch that Kou and Drou were sitting on (not to mention, who the hell they were), was so much more significant the second time. And Alys Vorpatril became a much richer character as well. The continuous stream-of-character works, so well. Great stuff.