My husband and I watched a Korean cooking show called Oh My Ghost. It was quite good, but one thing that jumped out at me was how much everyone said, "Yes, chef." So when I was reading this book and the characters kept saying, "Yes, chef," I had some Korean flashbacks! This is the first one a series of supernatural culinary novellas. It was fast-paced and pretty funny. With that said, the only reason I read it was I got a free copy from Tor.com. Of all the ones I've gotten from Tor.com, this is the first one where I wasn't itching to read the next in the series...
37. I Met a Traveller in an Antique Land by Connie Willis
Oh, what a luscious ode to books!!! Inhale and exhale books! The love and adventure of books!
38. The Overstory by Richard Powers
A beautiful ode to trees... A tremendous tree tome... a celebration of the splendor of trees... a tantalizing tangle of branches and roots... the beauty and the heartbreak of our arboreal world...
39. One Salt Sea by Seanan McGuire
Sometimes you need someone to stop the bad guys. I need that a lot lately. Enter October Daye...
I keep seeing kindred spirits in my books- people that love trees and don't know why we kill them so thoughtlessly, so eagerly, so blithely...
40. The Swordswoman by Jessica Amanda Salmonson
It's always interesting to read older books, especially ones you might have read when it was new, because there have been so many changes in the way books are written. Lexical and syntactical changes are present but also cultural changes. One of the more subtle ways you see cultural changes in writing is subject matter or the way that a given subject is treated. This story's protagonist may or may not be suffering from some kind of mental illness. (The story opens with her in an asylum.) But she doesn't seem unwell, but she can't remember anything. And they way the author handles this (and other aspects) feels like something from the seventies (the book was published in 1982) in a way that's hard to exactly pinpoint, which is why I ascribe it to a cultural change.
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