“There exists a quality of a book that I do not have a name for; it is approached by terms like ‘mode’ and ‘voice’ and ‘the writer’s world-view’, but isn’t quite any of these. I short-hand it as, ‘What kind of head-space am I going to be stuck in now?’ And is it one I that will enjoy being stuck in? We seek out, I think, any favorite writer’s other books, even if they are varied, in the hopes of entering that agreeable head-space again.”
~Lois McMaster Bujold
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