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This book has an intriguing premise, but though the writing is fair, the protagonists are dull, and the book itself is basically chapter after endless chapter of conversation. The dénouement doesn't save it, merely serves to point out how good this idea could have been in another's hands. It's also the softest sci-fi imaginable, and probably better suited to those who don't generally read sci-fi.

About a woman working at a tech company in San Francisco who, after being gifted a sourdough starter, becomes enamoured then obsessed with baking bread and what happens. It started out fine, a bit odd but fine, and then gradually devolved into a silliness of a type I abhor. I really did not enjoy this at all. I don't mind satire when biting and funny, but I found this pointless, boring and a waste of my time. Not for me.

Perhaps this book might be most useful to younger people? Once you've been an adult for a few (too many) decades, a lot of the content is information you've no doubt seen many times before. That being said, I found a new-to-me technique called cognitive shuffling which sounded both interesting, and potentially very helpful.

Age and experiences aside, there is absolutely value in having actionable stuff listed in one place conveniently sorted into categories such as physical, emotional, mental, social, and professional self-care.

A relatively thorough look at how autism can present in girls. The book has a fairly academic perspective of little use to me personally, but should be valuable for adults who spend time around children. An interesting read, and though this is a book I wish adults around me had read when I was young, ultimately it wasn't particularly useful to me now.

At first, I was very taken with this and thoroughly enjoyed a good chunk of it. However, at a certain point the narrative veers into a type of sci-fi I don't enjoy, and it became a slog to finish. Though well written, interesting and with well drawn characters, once the pivot happened I simply lost interest and found the rest of the book slow and long-winded. Regardless of how I felt about the book as a whole I also found the ending disappointing.

This was recommended to me years ago as something I'd love. A female protagonist involved in timey-wimey shenanigans mainly around in Tudor times? Made for me. If I'd read it back then I'd have loved it. Now it fizzled out as a merely OK read. The writing is fine, and I didn't dislike it, but the subtleties of the plot whizzed past me and though I know there is a compelling read lurking inside this book, I just couldn't seem to access it. Liked it enough to read the rest of the series at a later date when in a more compatible headspace.