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Book Review: A Psalm for the Wild-Built by Becky Chambers
I’m very glad I have the second book in the series handy, and already sad that there are only two of them so far.
How to make yogurt
There’s not much to making yogurt and it’s easy to do in any home with little to no special equipment.
Book Review: The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, November/December 2022
This was my first ever FandSF issue and if it’s at all representative of the rest then I’m looking forward to the next issue in January.
Book Review: The Spare Man by Mary Robinette Kowal
This book is much more “mystery that happens to be set on a spaceship” than “spaceship where there happens to be a mystery.”
Book Review: Shady Characters: The secret life of punctuation, symbols, & other typographical marks by Keith Houston
Houston steps through the evolution of several different forms of punctuation, and does so in an engaging and friendly way that makes you want to keep reading
Book Review: Fantasy Magazine Issue 85
Title: Fantasy Magazine Issue 85 Author: Various ISBN: n/a
Book Review: The Haunting of Tram Car 015 by P. Djèlí Clark
What if djinn returned to the world in the late 19th Century, settled down, and transformed Cairo into the most modern and innovative city in the world?
Book Review: The Storytelling Animal: How Stories Make Us Human by Jonathan Gottschall
While I didn’t get what I was expecting out of my time reading this book, I still think it was valuable and enjoyable time spent.
Book Review: Clarkesworld Magazine Issue 194
Title: Clarkesworld Magazine Issue 194 Author: Various ISBN: n/a
How does this work, again?
The decline of this blog directly tracks the increase of my Twitter usage. Now that the Man-Child King has put that into a nose dive, I have to keep remindin...
Book Review: Make It Clear by Patrick Henry Winston
If I had no experience either doing or training people in public speaking then I may have found this book useful. With my background, it ended up not being a...
Preserved lemons
A friend asked for the preserved lemon recipe I use, so I figured it’s as good a reason as any to finish fixing up this site. Gotta put the recipe somewhere,...