Book completed

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The Mountains of Mourning, by Lois McMaster Bujold. (Vorkosigan Saga). This novella is one of Bujold's finest pieces of writing, in my opinion. Miles Vorkosigan has just graduated from the Barrayar's military academy and is looking forward to his first assignment. He hopes for something glorious and dramatic in the space fleet, but instead he's assigned to investigate a crime in a remote mountain community - the infanticide of a baby girl with a birth defect. The episode becomes a turning point in his life. Now when he continues on to thrilling space fleet adventures, he'll be bringing with him a new sense of purpose.

Note: I record novellas as "books completed" even though they're shorter than most books. I figure I read more 600+ page books than novellas, and it evens out.