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
Questo collegamento si apre in una finestra pop-up
Vajra Chandrasekera: The Saint of Bright Doors (Hardcover, 2023, Doherty Associates, LLC, Tom)
Fetter was raised to kill, honed as a knife to cut down his sainted father. …
So far, I'm really liking this
How to Keep House While Drowning will introduce you to six life-changing principles that will …
I was curious about this book because Davis has seemed ubiquitous lately when there's any mention of housework. I thought it was really good -- a lot of the approaches she uses (like framing cleaning as a kindness to your future self, and arranging your space to serve your needs) are things I've been doing for a long time and were very helpful in becoming someone who now has an overall functional and happy relationship with housework.
A grim and gothic new tale from author Alix E. Harrow about a small town …
dead parents and john prine; they got my number for this one
Volume 1 of The Mirror Visitor Quartet
Winner of the Grand Prix de l’Imaginaire
Where …
This really did not hold up to a reread; perhaps knowing how disappointing I found the later books colored it. But it was an escape when I needed one.
One of the most remarkable true-crime narratives of the twenty-first century: the story of the …
This was a delightful quick read; lively and engaging and ultimately sad
A young woman's workplace is the size of the world. She fills increasingly bizarre placements …
Re-reading to see if this hold up enough to give my sister for Christmas
John Boswell's National Book Award-winning study of the history of attitudes toward homosexuality in the …
I would say I'm back on my bullshit but I can't say I ever got off it -- really enjoying this so far.
Six murders. One hundred pages. Millions of possible combinations. . . but only one is …
I would like to say, since I continue to wish I didn't have to stumble on other people posting their Cain's Jawbone solving thoughts, that I'm not going to post any of my Cain's Jawbone solving thoughts. Just, if anything, genuine, uncritical reactions to the text.
Six murders. One hundred pages. Millions of possible combinations. . . but only one is …
I'm doing this with some friends, a real "sickos hahah yes" choice for us
Nikolai Gogol's novel Dead Souls and play The Government Inspector revolutionized Russian literature and continue …
I watched Viy (1967) last night so it's time to re-read some Gogol
This is not the story you think it is. These are not the characters you …
I just haven't been able to get into this. I feel like there's just too many ideas in it, all squished together squabbling to take the forefront over regular old Holmes and Watson stuff
I've been missing doing math lately? So I'm doing a calc refresher...
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...
Edwin St. Andrew is eighteen years old when he crosses the Atlantic by steamship, exiled …
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).
The Culinary Institute of America holds nothing back in its mission to provide students, professionals, …
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 …
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 yourself or what makes the modifications work. The pastry recipes aren't terribly well organized, not much time gets devoted to different types, and there are big omissions (like macarons).
I think it is just too ambitious to have a single book about "baking and pastry"!