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Tannat

Not so much a blog; just lots of books

Currently reading

The Grace Year
Kim Liggett
The New Voices of Science Fiction
Jamie Wahls, Sarah Pinkser, Vina Jie-Min Prasad, Rebecca Roanhorse, S. Qiouyi Lu, Darcie Little Badger, Kelly Robson, Nino Cipri, Amal El-Mohtar, Sam J. Miller, E. Lily Yu, Alice Sola Kim, Suzanne Palmer, Alexander Weinstein, Rich Larson
Progress: 13%
Engineering Animals: How Life Works
Alan Mcfadzean, Mark Denny
Progress: 125/314pages
The Rise of Yeast: How the Sugar Fungus Shaped Civilization
Nicholas P. Money
Conservation of Shadows
Yoon Ha Lee
Progress: 22%
Le premier jour
Marc Levy
Progress: 180/496pages
Moby-Dick: or, The Whale (Penguin Classics)
Herman Melville
Manifold: Time
Stephen Baxter, Chris Schluep
Progress: 99/480pages
The Long War
Stephen Baxter, Terry Pratchett
Progress: 68/501pages

24 Festive Tasks Update Post 4

Total points: 16

 

 

Summary of points:

 

Door 1 - Task 1 (silly poem) 

Task 2 (favourite epitaph)

 

Door 2 - Book set in the UK: The Jane Austen Project

 

Door 3 - Task 1 - Pick your ponies (done)

 

Door 4 - Task 2

Task 4

Book (new): Faking It by Lux Alptraum

 

Door 7 - Task 1

 

Door 11 - Book: Read a book set in Russia: The Bear and the Nightingale by Katherine Arden (it's pre-Russia Russia, but I'm counting it)

 

Door 16 - Task 1

Task 2

Task 4

 

Door 17 - Task 4 (new): Guess (scout’s honor, NO GOOGLING!): Did the Gävle Goat survive this year?

I'm not sure when they're supposed to burn it on purpose, but I'm going to guess that the Gävle Goat got to be burned on time this year.

 

Door 18 - Winter Solstice / Yuletide (December 21): Thrice the Brinded Cat Hath Mew'd by Alan Bradley

 

Door 19 - Book: Read any comedy, parody, or satire: The Light Fantastic by Terry Pratchett

 

Door 23 - Book (new): Hogfather by Terry Pratchett (audiobook)