[LMB] (Chat) Au Riismed

[Lois McMaster Bujold]

So....

    My treat from the mailman today was author's copies of _Shards of 
Honor_ in Estonian, in which language it is titled _Au Riismed_.  No, I 
have no idea what that means.  The cover is very pretty, however, one of 
those where the artwork is glued on to the end boards like certain YA 
books in this country -- in this case, a picture of a deep canyon with 
some futuristic air vehicles and a lot of big pink bubbles floating in 
the air that I would guess to be the vampire balloons, which suggests 
the painting was actually made just for this book.  And neatly avoiding 
the whole question of what the characters look like, I might add.  I 
like it -- it signals genre clearly without being violent or garish.

    The printing is clear and paper looks to be of good quality, and the 
binding is sewn.

    The publisher, Varrak, has -- of course -- a website:  www.varrak.ee

    Oh ho, and here's the book's page so you can see the cover for 
yourselves --  http://www.varrak.ee/product/3429/

    So, "Otsi" means "search" in Estonian.  Who knew?

    I shall have to leave further explication for any Estonian-speaking 
listees.

    Ta, L.