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Tannat

Not so much a blog; just lots of books

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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

A Natural History of Dragons by Marie Brennan

A Natural History of Dragons: A Memoir by Lady Trent - Marie Brennan, Kate Reading

Series: The Memoirs of Lady Trent #1

 

I've been meaning to read this for quite a while, so when I saw it in my library's overdrive offerings, I figured it would make a good choice for my next audiobook (I seem to find it so much easier to get through audiobooks these days). Now I can finally return the print copy that my friend lent me...

 

Anyway, what we have here is a retrospective story of the main character's early days after having led a prestigious career as a natural historian who specialized in dragons. The world is a Victorian clone with different place names (England is Scirland and so on) and with actual dragons in the world.

 

I think this probably worked better for me as an audiobook, so I think I'll be continuing the series that way. I thought it was pretty good, and the MC thought trousers felt weird the first time she put them on (I'm referring to the trope of the woman wearing trousers for the first time finding them comfortable that I brought up in one of the 24 Festive Tasks task), but I just don't have much to say about it.