Lj Book Bingo Reading Game - F is for the Fated Sky by Mary Robinette Kowal

As with Pros fic, it's not that I haven't been reading books... it's that I haven't been finishing them! I had three books on the go that I kept being distracted from - and then oddly enough I came back to this one and just wolfed it down, and want the next one in the series now! It's the second Lady Astronaut book, and I can barely remember the first half, but the second half definitely grabbed me again.

The space race is still on - not as a competition between the USSR and US, but as a race to escape to other worlds before the earth's climate finishes the catastrophic warming it began when a metereorite hit the earth in 1952. So it's an alternative history in some ways, but it's very much dealing with the world as it was for people back then as well, which is also interesting. Fated Sky takes us to 1961 - the moon landings are in the past, and the next stop - is Mars. *g*

Some pictures of April - 12th April

Yes, this is yesterday's pics... Why the crows? Because there are always crows... *g* Well, and because that first one had designs on my cat-proofed dug-over veggie beds (the cats don't like using them as a bathroom if they have to pick through sticks to find a spot - well, you wouldn't, would you?!), and although you can't see it in the pic was actually carrying one of those cat-protecting twigs away with it. The second one, like all the other crows that hang around in the big pine tree next door, had designs on the only bird food they'd left in the feeders - the one that's a bit harder for them to balance on! Actually I don't mind the crows snacking from my birdfeeders sometimes, I rather like crows, just not eating it all, every day - I can't afford them!