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Six murders. One hundred pages. Millions of possible combinations. . . but only one is …
I would like to say, since I continue to wish I didn't have to stumble on other people posting their Cain's Jawbone solving thoughts, that I'm not going to post any of my Cain's Jawbone solving thoughts. Just, if anything, genuine, uncritical reactions to the text.
There’s a princess trapped in a tower. This isn’t her story.
Meet Toadling. On the day of her birth, she …
Edwin St. Andrew is eighteen years old when he crosses the Atlantic by steamship, exiled …
I found this touching and hopeful, I liked how poignantly the characters were drawn, and the themes of kindness and the vicissitudes of life.
My main complaint was that I think the simulation theory stuff was basically an unnecessary macguffin and didn't add to the themes (at least as far as they interested me).
Edwin St. Andrew is eighteen years old when he crosses the Atlantic by steamship, exiled from polite society following an …
Edwin St. Andrew is eighteen years old when he crosses the Atlantic by steamship, exiled from polite society following an …
I found this book a little disappointing because of how it's organized and how much of baking it tries to cover. It starts out with a ton of information about baking as a profession, tools, and technical information about baking (like tables of different gelling agents, and bread techniques and terminology). All of that information is really good, well curated, and clear, but I wished that the techniques specific to certain kinds of baking were placed with the recipes, rather than all together at the beginning. It also spends a lot of time, understandably, on professional bread techniques, and a lot less on pastry techniques. It feels at times like a bread book with some pastry recipes included.
There are tons of recipes, but often they are variants on a theme (like banana, chocolate, or lacenut tuiles) but no basic recipe and no information on how to modify the recipe …
I found this book a little disappointing because of how it's organized and how much of baking it tries to cover. It starts out with a ton of information about baking as a profession, tools, and technical information about baking (like tables of different gelling agents, and bread techniques and terminology). All of that information is really good, well curated, and clear, but I wished that the techniques specific to certain kinds of baking were placed with the recipes, rather than all together at the beginning. It also spends a lot of time, understandably, on professional bread techniques, and a lot less on pastry techniques. It feels at times like a bread book with some pastry recipes included.
There are tons of recipes, but often they are variants on a theme (like banana, chocolate, or lacenut tuiles) but no basic recipe and no information on how to modify the recipe yourself or what makes the modifications work. The pastry recipes aren't terribly well organized, not much time gets devoted to different types, and there are big omissions (like macarons).
I think it is just too ambitious to have a single book about "baking and pastry"!
A brief synopsis of everything. The author fuses quantum theory, biology, astronomy, Zen Buddhism, Kabbalah, and more to explain why …
The Princess Bride is a timeless tale that pits country against country, good against evil, love against hate. This incredible …
A new world is possible and not just in our hearts. Anarchic Agreements is a quintessential field guide for the …
This is not the story you think it is. These are not the characters you think they are. This is …
After years of seeing her sisters suffer at the hands of an abusive prince, Marra—the shy, convent-raised, third-born daughter—has finally …
After years of seeing her sisters suffer at the hands of an abusive prince, Marra—the …
hoping this will be engrossing enough to distract me from being sick
Piper is a lich-doctor, a physician who works among the dead, determining causes of death for the city guard's investigations. …
Piper is a lich-doctor, a physician who works among the dead, determining causes of death for the city guard's investigations. …
He’s a paladin of a dead god, tracking a supernatural killer across a continent. She’s a nun from a secretive …
