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Wednesday Reading Meme Feb 21 2024
What I’ve Read:
Thursday Night Murder Club – Richard Osman – Picked this up as an audiobook and it has some charm in terms of interesting plot but good god do they lean into some stereotypes. Are the English capable of writing an Irish person who is not defined by their relationship to Catholicism? Eastern Europeans who are not in some way criminal?
What I’m Reading:
The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York– Robert Caro – like 14% Just listened to the second episode of the 99% Invisible book club on this and it was really fun.
Reading schedule -
Episode 3 — March 15 — Chapters 11 through 15
Episode 4 — April 19 — Chapters 16 through 20
Episode 5 — May 17 — Chapters 21 through 24
Episode 6 — June 21 — Chapters 25 through 26
Episode 7 — July 19 — Chapters 27 through 32
Episode 8 — August 16 — Chapters 33 through 34
Episode 9 — September 20 — Chapters 35 through 38
Episode 10 — October 18 — Chapters 39 through 41
Episode 11 — November 15 — Chapters 42 through 46
Episode 12 — December 20 — Chapters 47 through 50
Consider the Fork: A History of How We Cook and Eat by Bee Wilson – Robo Book Club – An interesting and light look at the history of culinary tools. I think it’s a fun read! I am so far finding that her focus is on European history and that her cursory addition of non-European cultures foodways and history is quite cursory. Also, she claimed in a single passing line that maple syrup is made darker by the Maillard reaction, which is a marginal claim at best, and makes me suspicious about other passing claims she makes.. (Maple syrup is 99% sugar and is slowly boiled from a thin sap to a thick syrup and the more simple sugars in the sap, the darker the color, so its color is almost certainly due to caramelization. Citation: I am a New Englander and I have gotten educational presentations on maple syrup at fairs annually since I was a small child. There are other amino acids and microbes in the syrup, but like, 99% sugar is a pretty good indication that it’s probably a sugar-based reaction.) But so far, so good, and her interest is more pointedly in tools, so I can give the fact that she’s British gentry fooling around with history a bit of a pass.
Fellowship of the Ring – JRR Tolkien – 17%
The Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation – Vol 4 (Mo Dao Zu Shi) – On the Wei Wuxian conga line of suffering!
It Came from the Closet: Queer Reflections in Horror - Joe Vallese (Editor) – SPN Seminar – 38%
The Lottery and Other Stories by Shirley Jackson – 41%
What I’ll Read Next:
Witchmark - Necromancy Book Club
Silver Nitrate
Gunslingers Paean #3
Owned and need to read: Never Whistle at Night: An Indigenous Dark Fiction Anthology, California Bones, Raven Song by IA Ashcroft, At The Feet of the Sun by Victoria Goddard, Tamryn Eradani's Enchanting Encounters Books 2 and 3, Tom Stoppard, Invention of love, "You Just Need to Lose Weight" and Other Myths about Fatness by Aubrey Gordon
Thursday Night Murder Club – Richard Osman – Picked this up as an audiobook and it has some charm in terms of interesting plot but good god do they lean into some stereotypes. Are the English capable of writing an Irish person who is not defined by their relationship to Catholicism? Eastern Europeans who are not in some way criminal?
What I’m Reading:
The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York– Robert Caro – like 14% Just listened to the second episode of the 99% Invisible book club on this and it was really fun.
Reading schedule -
Episode 3 — March 15 — Chapters 11 through 15
Episode 4 — April 19 — Chapters 16 through 20
Episode 5 — May 17 — Chapters 21 through 24
Episode 6 — June 21 — Chapters 25 through 26
Episode 7 — July 19 — Chapters 27 through 32
Episode 8 — August 16 — Chapters 33 through 34
Episode 9 — September 20 — Chapters 35 through 38
Episode 10 — October 18 — Chapters 39 through 41
Episode 11 — November 15 — Chapters 42 through 46
Episode 12 — December 20 — Chapters 47 through 50
Consider the Fork: A History of How We Cook and Eat by Bee Wilson – Robo Book Club – An interesting and light look at the history of culinary tools. I think it’s a fun read! I am so far finding that her focus is on European history and that her cursory addition of non-European cultures foodways and history is quite cursory. Also, she claimed in a single passing line that maple syrup is made darker by the Maillard reaction, which is a marginal claim at best, and makes me suspicious about other passing claims she makes.. (Maple syrup is 99% sugar and is slowly boiled from a thin sap to a thick syrup and the more simple sugars in the sap, the darker the color, so its color is almost certainly due to caramelization. Citation: I am a New Englander and I have gotten educational presentations on maple syrup at fairs annually since I was a small child. There are other amino acids and microbes in the syrup, but like, 99% sugar is a pretty good indication that it’s probably a sugar-based reaction.) But so far, so good, and her interest is more pointedly in tools, so I can give the fact that she’s British gentry fooling around with history a bit of a pass.
Fellowship of the Ring – JRR Tolkien – 17%
The Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation – Vol 4 (Mo Dao Zu Shi) – On the Wei Wuxian conga line of suffering!
It Came from the Closet: Queer Reflections in Horror - Joe Vallese (Editor) – SPN Seminar – 38%
The Lottery and Other Stories by Shirley Jackson – 41%
What I’ll Read Next:
Witchmark - Necromancy Book Club
Silver Nitrate
Gunslingers Paean #3
Owned and need to read: Never Whistle at Night: An Indigenous Dark Fiction Anthology, California Bones, Raven Song by IA Ashcroft, At The Feet of the Sun by Victoria Goddard, Tamryn Eradani's Enchanting Encounters Books 2 and 3, Tom Stoppard, Invention of love, "You Just Need to Lose Weight" and Other Myths about Fatness by Aubrey Gordon