Book post 02/12/23

[wolffyluna]

Legends and Lattes by Travis Baldree

A fantasy novel that is like drinking a mocha in a cozy cafe. There's more progression than conflict. I don't want to say it's low stakes, so much as stakes are dealt with quickly and with things ending up even better for the characters. Which in my opinion came across as weird at points? But like. If you want an aggressively cozy "orc makes a Cafe in a fantasy world" it fits the bill well.

Salt by Mark Kurlansky

History of salt. DNF. It didn't come across as ~credible as I like. (Some potential linguistic clunkers in the chapter on China, and treating Africa as one giant lump, that sort of thing.)

Comments

[lb_lee]

"History of salt. DNF"

Biff (transcribed from back): how the fuck do you fuck that up?!

[wolffyluna]

It was interesting! I will give the author that credit.

It's just that I have unfortunately become picky with historical non fiction, so if I'm left going "but *where* in Africa???" I'm probably going to put it down.

(... also there was someone waiting for the electronic copy at the library, and I didn't want to be a dog in the manger)

[chocochipbiscuit]

Shame! I've been casually interested in Salt for a while (heard about it from multiple history AND food podcasts!) but never quite interested enough to actually request it from the library. I suspect it'll be even longer until I do then!

[lb_lee]

Biff (transcribed from back): Oh, yeah, Africa's a big place, that's fair.

...but HOW DO YOU FUCK THAT UP?!