mouse started reading Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen
Northanger Abbey is both a perfectly aimed literary parody and a withering satire of the …
delightful so far
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mouse finished reading Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
"For sheer storytelling delight and pure adventure, Treasure Island has never been surpassed. From the …
this really brought me fully back to being a kid who wanted to be a sailor
mouse started reading The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida by Shehan Karunatilaka
Colombo, 1990. Maali Almeida—war photographer, gambler, and closet queen—has woken up dead in what seems …
My mom lent me this, it's interesting so far!
mouse finished reading The Goddess and the Bull by Michael Balter
Discovered in 1958 by James Mellaart, Catalhoyuek, located on the Konya Plain in Turkey, is …
I really enjoyed this!
mouse finished reading The Physiology of Taste by Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
Jean-Anthelme Brillat-Savarin, Mayor of Bellay, cousin of Madame Recamier, Chevalier de l'Empire, author of A …
Content warning food & alc, diets
I did not know what I was getting into with this book! It was written in 1825 (which I did not realize until I started it) and is a mix of food science of its time, anecdotes about food, and the author pondering wholly unrelated subjects (like what would happen if an astroid hit the earth). Brillat-Savarin is an incredibly compelling and witty writer, especially when read aloud; he also has some strong opinions that are quite funny to the present day (drinking water is bad, coffee in more dangerous to one's health than wine, thinking too much after eating is the leading cause of death).
The only really unpleasant part is his weird and gross section about obesity and dieting. According to the back of the book he's hailed as the father of the low carb diet, which I don't think is any kind of honor.
Lote by Shola von Reinhold
Lush and frothy, incisive and witty, Shola von Reinhold’s decadent queer literary debut immerses readers in the pursuit of aesthetics …
mouse commented on Summer Fun by Jeanne Thornton
From acclaimed author Jeanne Thornton, an epic, singular look at fandom, creativity, longing, and trans …
I forgot I read this this year; has to win the award for most dissonance between the vibe suggested by the cover and the actual vibe
mouse started reading Aura by Carlos Fuentes
Aura is a short novel written by Mexican novelist Carlos Fuentes, first published in 1962 …
my recollection of high school Spanish is getting me approximately 30% comprehension; luckily it's a bilingual edition
mouse commented on A Manual of Akkadian by David Marcus
A self-teaching manual of Akkadian, the language of ancient Mesopotamia (modern Iraq), this unique text …
just got this from the library in a real "sickos: hahah yes" moment for me
mouse started reading The Golden Enclaves by Naomi Novik (Scholomance, #3)
The one thing you never talk about while you’re in the Scholomance is what you’ll …
Stoked!
mouse wants to read Sumerian Proverbs by Edmund I. Gordon
all I wanna do is read about Sumer
mouse commented on The Oldest Cuisine in the World by Jean Bottéro
In this intriguing blend of the commonplace and the ancient, Jean Bottero presents the first …
I love this book, but it has no index??? Infuriating
mouse finished reading The Art of Fermentation by Sandor Ellix Katz
Winner of the 2013 James Beard Foundation Book Award for Reference and Scholarship, and a …
it's hard to imagine ever feeling "finished" with this because I still have so many things bookmarked to try
mouse finished reading Nona the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir (The Locked Tomb, #3)
Her city is under siege. The zombies are coming back. And all Nona wants is …
I enjoyed this but dang is this plot complicated and subtly conveyed. I expect I'll be kind of lost by the time Alecto comes out, but I am ready to accept that.
mouse commented on The Art of Fermentation by Sandor Ellix Katz
Winner of the 2013 James Beard Foundation Book Award for Reference and Scholarship, and a …
one of the few books that I bought a copy of because the idea of returning it to the library was too hard to bear