mouse started reading Baking with Fortitude by Dee Rettali
It seems like the main idea in this book is leaving cake batter at room temperature for a couple days to ferment before baking it, I am extremely interested
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mouse commented on As I Remember Him by Hans Zinsser
This work is an autobiography told in the third person, and includes coverage of his …
I have to interject here, a little over half way through, that I do not recommend this book. Just stick with Rats, Lice, and History.
mouse started reading As I Remember Him by Hans Zinsser
This work is an autobiography told in the third person, and includes coverage of his …
You’ll be pleased and relieved to hear that, based on the first few pages, this book is completely unhinged
mouse reviewed Spectred Isle by KJ Charles
Ivy
Growing up, English ivy was an acutely troublesome invasive species -- in the region generally and in my family's yard specifically. My neighbors had, foolishly, planted it, and it would grow up trees and deprive them of their nutrients, and send vines into crevices of buildings, damaging them. At a formative age, I learned about this: how ivy sends these little creeping tendrils into all the small holes it finds. And I would sit in the back yard, imagining the ivy crawling up my body, planting little roots in my pores and feeding on me until I was a desiccated husk.
The point being, I had a hard time with the fact that ivy showing up was a good thing in this story, because to me the appearance of an inexplicable ivy leaf could not be a more ominous sign. So if you have my extremely specific aversion to the …
Growing up, English ivy was an acutely troublesome invasive species -- in the region generally and in my family's yard specifically. My neighbors had, foolishly, planted it, and it would grow up trees and deprive them of their nutrients, and send vines into crevices of buildings, damaging them. At a formative age, I learned about this: how ivy sends these little creeping tendrils into all the small holes it finds. And I would sit in the back yard, imagining the ivy crawling up my body, planting little roots in my pores and feeding on me until I was a desiccated husk.
The point being, I had a hard time with the fact that ivy showing up was a good thing in this story, because to me the appearance of an inexplicable ivy leaf could not be a more ominous sign. So if you have my extremely specific aversion to the plant, be aware I guess?
mouse started reading Rakesfall by Vajra Chandrasekera
Some stories take more than one lifetime to tell. There are wrongs that echo through …
I'm excited this is out!
mouse finished reading The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman
Welcome to... THE THURSDAY MURDER CLUB
In a peaceful retirement village, four unlikely friends meet …
This was delightful
mouse commented on Rats, Lice and History by Hans Zinsser
The classic chronicle of the impact disease and plagues have had on history and society …
I am over 160 pages into this book which is ostensibly a biography of typhus, and so far it has covered at length:
- the nature of art,
- whether or not he should write this book,
- the origins and fundamentally parasitic nature of life,
- the role of epidemic disease in various periods of history, each section of which he concludes that there's no reason to think typhus was present at that time.
It's the perfect book; it's like he wrote this book just for me.
mouse started reading Rats, Lice and History by Hans Zinsser
The classic chronicle of the impact disease and plagues have had on history and society …
beyond stoked about this
mouse commented on Rakesfall by Vajra Chandrasekera
Some stories take more than one lifetime to tell. There are wrongs that echo through …
I'm number one on the library waitlist for this 💪
mouse reviewed Floating Hotel by Grace Curtis
Welcome to the Grand Abeona Hotel: home of the finest food, the sweetest service, and …
sweet
I liked a lot about this book, even though I felt like it lacked some polish, particularly in wrapping the plot up. It is told through slice-of-life-ish vignettes about various characters and how they ended up working at the hotel, with the story revealed incidentally in the background the character's stories. I found this book endearing but ultimately... it's not really a hotel is it? isn't it a cruise ship? this bothered me a lot.
mouse reviewed All Systems Red by Martha Wells (The Murderbot Diaries, #1)
"As a heartless killing machine, I was a complete failure."
In a corporate-dominated spacefaring future, …
what a fun little read
it's hard to pull off a sardonic robot protagonist, and I think this did it
mouse finished reading The Woods All Black by Lee Mandelo
The Woods All Black is equal parts historical horror, trans romance, and blood-soaked revenge, all …
This ended up not really being my thing; the supernatural stuff didn't work for me and it was offering a kind of catharsis that I'm not looking for. But I liked the historical fiction stuff a lot and I'm glad I read it nonetheless
mouse commented on The Woods All Black by Lee Mandelo
The Woods All Black is equal parts historical horror, trans romance, and blood-soaked revenge, all …
it's been a while since I felt totally engrossed in a book and this is hitting the spot
mouse finished reading The Bachelor Life by George Jean Nathan
The Bachelor's Life by Nathan, George Jean is a book that explores the life of …
I know this was meant to be arch but the tone was unbearably smug and the misogyny and racism seemed excessive even for 1941. It also, insult to injury, dispenses with talking about bachelorhood about a chapter in and digresses into fully just this guy complaining about things (mainly how rich he is)
mouse started reading The Power Look at Home by Egon Von Fürstenberg
I'm actually enjoying this way less ironically than I expected considering it's a book about bachelor pad decorating published in the 1980