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A retired policeman turned chef and his single daughter run a restaurant where they recreate …
This book was very Japanese: obsessed over the smallest details of recipes - where the potatoes come from or the size of breadcrumbs in millimeters. Each recipe found by the detective brings with it a back story which is heartwarming.
This book was a great souvenir of my trip to Charleston, and Rybczynski is as erudite a guide as always, but the stories are not as inherently interesting as in some of his previous works.
Brilliant riff on Huckleberry Finn; in Twain’s style but recast to center Jim’s heroism
This book leaped genres and raised interesting themes in a unique way.
Just not my cup of tea. A bit too much of the spirit world. Still, a harrowing imagining of the horrific reality of slavery.
From one of the most dynamic rising stars in astrophysics, an accessible and eye-opening look—in …
Very clearly explained tour of very deep cosmological ideas
In 1901, the word ‘Bondmaid’ was discovered missing from the Oxford English Dictionary. This is …
A look at the women behind (literally, last in line) the creation of the Oxford English Dictionary, and the various ways their words and lives are ignored.
The Colour of Magic is a 1983 fantasy comedy novel by Terry Pratchett, and is …
OK, the plot had enormous confusing holes but it was amusing all the way through on a scene-by-scene level.
A deeply observed portrait of an outsider, set against thinly-veiled portrait of the luxe life in the Hamptons. My main problem was not wanting to spend time with the trainwreck of the main character, but that perhaps misses the point of the artistry.