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mouse

mouse@bookwyrm.social

Joined 3 years ago

it's me, I'm the creator and admin of BookWyrm. buy me a book!

try me at @tripofmice@friend.camp for non-reading content and @bookwyrm@tech.lgbt for technical stuff

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2023 Reading Goal

80% complete! mouse has read 42 of 52 books.

Black Sun (EBook, 2020, Saga Press) 5 stars

In the holy city of Tova, the winter solstice is usually a time for celebration …

There was just so much in this, which is not objectively a problem but is a reminder that I really prefer standalone novels that wrap up a comparatively smaller number of characters and plot threads...

Sea of Tranquility (Hardcover, 2022, Knopf) 4 stars

Edwin St. Andrew is eighteen years old when he crosses the Atlantic by steamship, exiled …

Lovely

5 stars

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).

Baking and Pastry (Hardcover, 2009, J. Wiley) 3 stars

A bit of a letdown

3 stars

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 …