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📗 Turning Darkness Into Light by Marie Brennan
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🎶 Those Who Fight by Nobuo Uematsu

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A slow start, but lots of fun once the story picked up. Written using letter, newspaper articles, police reports, journal entities and more, this book follows the story of Audrey, granddaughter of Lady Trent as she rushes to finish translating ancient tablets “discovered” by a wealthy Lord. Plots, academic reputation, politics, a maybe lost love, all stand in the way and Audrey has to navigate them with two Allies to complete her work 4/5 stars.

Audrey‘s work translating a newly discovered epic might land her in more hot water than she can handle. Good thing she is her grandmother‘s granddaughter.

I hadn‘t realized I hadn‘t finished the Lady Trent series, so I‘m definitely spoiled for that a bit. But otherwise this was a charming epistolary novel. Audrey is a gutsy, intelligent main character.

This is a magnificent work exploring the power of stories in shaping our futures. 🌕🌕🌕🌕🌗

I‘m so pumped and ready to go! November #BookSpinBingo time!

#BookSpin 6 - Turning Darkness Into Light by Marie Brennan

#DoubleSpin 20 - Cemetery Boys by Aiden Thomas

Woohoo! Let‘s go!

Another amazing book in this series. I really enjoy how Marie Brennan writes these in such a different format. This book is only composed of letters, journal entries and newspaper articles, yet it was so easy to get into the story. The world building and mythology she created throughout her other books is amazing, and this book just kept expanding on that.

Needed a palate cleanser while reading the 2019 best American science and nature writing.... the anthology (not pictured book) has quite a few essays that make me incredibly sad..

Also, I‘ve been wanting to read this since it came out!

#science #fantasy

I absolutely loved this. All the good feelings from the first series but a new generation to follow in this world. Audrey is worthy of being her grandmother's successor and was a pure joy to follow along. This was told in more of an epistolary style than the previous series memoir format.
#BuriedAliveChallenge
#CalibreRoulette

Sierra and I are hanging out with Lady Trent‘s granddaughter tonight. It‘s great to be back in this world again even with the focus on a new generation.
#CatsOfLitsy

Spinoff from the author's series of anthropology novels about a dragon naturalist. Spoils that entire series so not to be read first.

Didn't like it as much. It's more epistolary format and I think the author had a bit too much fun with the different letters, diary entries, etc. It detracted.

The main focus is translation of a clay tablet epic - would have liked more anthropology info on that process. The suspense-mystery part was too obvious.

#WyrdAndWonder Day 10: #spinepoetry

The last light of the sun
across the nightingale floor;
the copper promise,
red seas under red skies.
The dark is rising, shadowsong.

(At) darkest hour, (across) this dreaming isle
Brilliance of the moon (against) the stone sky
Turning darkness into light

Starting this now 📖😋

The tagged book gets 4/5 ⭐ from me! I really loved some parts, and the ending was great, but it wasn't quite as wonderful as the Lady Trent series 🐉 Now on to my next read! (I realized that I have 6 books from the library and two more holds waiting for me, so I should actually start reading them 😅)

I adored this book. Audrey is distinct from the grandmother who overshadows her, and a delightful companion. Her adventures in linguistics fighting the politicisation of research are just as gripping as Isabella‘s journeys and feel very timely with their central questions of how the stories we tell about ourselves and others change our attitudes. Wonderful stuff, side by side with marvellous myth making.

This book was so so good. I had to get used to the format—it‘s told predominantly through diary entries—but honestly I forgot about it most of the time. Most books written through letters, newspaper articles, etc. aren‘t enjoyable for me, but she wrote the letters in such a way that they read like a narrative. Love this continuation of the story and am so glad it lived up to my expectations.

Lovely. Maybe my only criticism is that Audrey is *very* like Isabella in many ways.

Not sure quite how long I read today -- maybe an hour? But I finished this finally, yay! #SummersEndReadathon @Clwojick

1. First of all, to finish this book! Then I have a whole TBR for this month to attend to, and I've read less than half so far... oops: https://breathesbooks.com/2019/08/01/an-august-tbr/
2. This one! I really want to finish it.
3. I'm fairly flexible. Right now all I want is chicken satay skewers. Gaaaah, I want them.
4. I'm pretty easy about where and when I read.
5. Always!
6. Hmm, not sure who'd be interested.

@Clwojick #SummersEndReadathon

One of the lovely things about this series (for me) is that there are academics of all sorts of fields doing research (some more legitimately than others). I relate to Isabella and the biological research a lot, of course, but my BA and MA were heavily language focused and involved a healthy introduction to translation, so I'm really feeling Audrey, too!

SHE KNEW ME!!!!!!!!!

#worldcon2019

Oops, I started reading and suddenly I was 62 pages in. Eeee.

“I‘m not very good at friends. But I suppose it doesn‘t matter anymore”

😭💔😭💔😭

Oh, Cora

I love love love that the conflict is academic and reputational, not romantic or sexual. And by the time Audrey says this, it‘s an absolutely stinging rebuke.

Just wonderful.

“I didn‘t mean to start a riot”

...once a Camherst, always a Camherst

Is it wrong that my immediate thought was ‘...when you took it off her‘?

Apparently I have instant ship for Audrey and Cora.

What's that thing the kids say?

YAAAAAAAAAAAS QUEEN.