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ladies, dragons, and science!
I finally got off my ass (or, er, on it, rather?) and read A Natural History of Dragons by Marie Brennan, and then discovered to my delight that the sequel comes out tomorrow. \o/!
Universe, this totally makes up for the spoiled milk in my cereal and tea this morning. I forgive you.
I have to say, aside from my soul-deep 'You are my people!' response to Isabella's mix of nerdy mindset, intrepid adventuring, and amusing narration (her 'demented practicality,' as she puts it), it was SO GREAT to read a novel that was basically Jane Goodall a la a Victorian-esque fantasy world with dragons, wryly reminiscing as an old lady about her youthful adventures.
(I should probably confess here that I was such an enormous Jane Goodall fan that I convinced my GT group in third grade to write a play based on her life for a class project. It was never performed, thankfully, but we did manage a truly awful filk of 'George of the Jungle', which is preserved somewhere in my files along with the neon-highlighted, handwritten-on-notebook-paper script. I was also planning to be Jane Goodall for Halloween that year, but I couldn't find appropriate shorts, IIRC.)
To sum up, my inner third-grader was ecstatic, and my current feminist brain wants to buy four copies for my cousin and grab any passing fangirls to gush about the unsentimental romance in the novel. So many hearts.
I also want to re-read Emilie and the Hollow World now, since the sequel for *that* ALSO comes out tomorrow. I already asked for it for my birthday, so I can't buy it myself. Hmph. Poor planning on my part.
I neglected to talk about it when I originally read it since I was in Chicago for VividCon, but that book is also highly recommended. I made the silly mistake of bringing it with me on the trip, forgetting that Martha Wells is a ninja master of relentlessly paced, edge-of-your-seat action sequences, so I stayed up late to finish it after my flight.
Fortunately, it's a YA novel, so I was only up until 1 AM instead of 3 AM. :D
Emilie was a delight - far more of a natural adventurer than science-driven Isabella - and apparently grows up to look like Lyndie Greenwood, for the Sleepy Hollow fans out there. I'm looking forward to more of her getting into trouble. ♥
Universe, this totally makes up for the spoiled milk in my cereal and tea this morning. I forgive you.
I have to say, aside from my soul-deep 'You are my people!' response to Isabella's mix of nerdy mindset, intrepid adventuring, and amusing narration (her 'demented practicality,' as she puts it), it was SO GREAT to read a novel that was basically Jane Goodall a la a Victorian-esque fantasy world with dragons, wryly reminiscing as an old lady about her youthful adventures.
(I should probably confess here that I was such an enormous Jane Goodall fan that I convinced my GT group in third grade to write a play based on her life for a class project. It was never performed, thankfully, but we did manage a truly awful filk of 'George of the Jungle', which is preserved somewhere in my files along with the neon-highlighted, handwritten-on-notebook-paper script. I was also planning to be Jane Goodall for Halloween that year, but I couldn't find appropriate shorts, IIRC.)
To sum up, my inner third-grader was ecstatic, and my current feminist brain wants to buy four copies for my cousin and grab any passing fangirls to gush about the unsentimental romance in the novel. So many hearts.
I also want to re-read Emilie and the Hollow World now, since the sequel for *that* ALSO comes out tomorrow. I already asked for it for my birthday, so I can't buy it myself. Hmph. Poor planning on my part.
I neglected to talk about it when I originally read it since I was in Chicago for VividCon, but that book is also highly recommended. I made the silly mistake of bringing it with me on the trip, forgetting that Martha Wells is a ninja master of relentlessly paced, edge-of-your-seat action sequences, so I stayed up late to finish it after my flight.
Fortunately, it's a YA novel, so I was only up until 1 AM instead of 3 AM. :D
Emilie was a delight - far more of a natural adventurer than science-driven Isabella - and apparently grows up to look like Lyndie Greenwood, for the Sleepy Hollow fans out there. I'm looking forward to more of her getting into trouble. ♥