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Hieronymous Alloy posted:Need next month's suggestions. CJ Cherryh! I don't think you could do Cyteen in a month, so Downbelow Station?
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Hieronymous Alloy posted:Kurlansky also wrote a similar history of cod, titled "Cod: a Biography of the Fish that Changed the World." where's the 'salted cod' omnibus edition?
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Safety Biscuits posted:I enjoyed this but it shows that when all you have is a salty hammer, everything looks like a salty nail. This about sums it up for me so far - there are some cool historical details (wanna read more about the Celts) but the single-minded return to salt (and fish) over and over got a little old. It was cool to see how it had a social as well as economical/health impact, and now that I'm going into part 3 with the chemistry/industrialization aspect, I feel like it's becoming interesting again.
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Jun 26, 2017 05:18
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Reiterating The White Boy Shuffle as a suggestion.
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Jun 26, 2017 06:50
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I just started reading it yesterday and am loving it. I'm a little more cautious in my enthusiasm for it after the posts here about historical inaccuracies or too much emphasis on salt's importance, but still loving it. I really want to try pickling some veg now.
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Finished it just now. While interesting in parts, it seemed weirdly structured and a bit too hung up on fish. I really liked the parts set in India and the info on the celts, though.
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military cervix posted:Finished it just now. While interesting in parts, it seemed weirdly structured and a bit too hung up on fish. I really liked the parts set in India and the info on the celts, though. On the fish bit: 1. Kurlansky first wrote a book about Cod. Along the process he did a lot of investigation into the Basque country and about Salt, which would lead to his next 2 books "The Basque History of the World" and "Salt: A World History." 2. Kurlansky also really loves food in general and fishing in particular; of his nonfiction, 7 books relate to food and 4 of those to fish or seafood.
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Jun 28, 2017 18:42
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Well, as I already mentioned, salted cod is awesome, anyway.
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Jun 28, 2017 19:20
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Reading this book makes me really hungry
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Jun 28, 2017 21:43
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so everyone is agreed that, in honor of the death of noted author Michael Bond, next months' BotM will be "A Bear Called Paddington" we're all cool with that right
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Jun 28, 2017 23:34
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Hieronymous Alloy posted:so everyone is agreed that, in honor of the death of noted author Michael Bond, next months' BotM will be "A Bear Called Paddington" Well, seems to be available on the Kindle and it would hit the "nonhuman perspective" point in the booklord challenge.
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Hieronymous Alloy posted:so everyone is agreed that, in honor of the death of noted author Michael Bond, next months' BotM will be "A Bear Called Paddington" It's a compelling and relevant refugee tale. For a more serious suggestion, I just got a recommendation for The Egg and Iby Betty MacDonald. It's a memoir about the author, a children's book writer, trying to start a poultry farm in Washington. It's supposed to be witty and a nice summer escape. It hits some Booklord categories and is selfishly already on my list for later this month. For the lit or people wanting fiction again, you could consider the recent Man Booker International winner A Horse Walks Into a Bar by David Goldstein. A stand up comedian in a backwater town in Israel invites a childhood friend to see his act. It's quickly apparent that he's a bit of a hack, but as the act goes on he starts to spiral out of control, the jokes become few and far between as he starts to reveal his difficult childhood. The audience gets restless and you're trapped with the few who remain as his old friend feels compelled to bear witness and see if his own childhood betrayal will be revealed. Not sure on SFF.
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Jun 29, 2017 16:08
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Finishing late. A nice read, but some parts really took out my enjoyment. Like mentioning Moses in Egypt like a fact and other inaccuracies, what?!
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I was disappointed. It seemed like an interesting theme and I was curious how the author would form a coherent narrative throughout the book. Spoiler, he doesn't. It's just like reading a bunch of Wikipedia history articles with the word "salt". Some are more interesting than others. All the recipes and detailed descriptions of food are a bit goony and should not have been included imo. Maybe I'll appreciate it more after a second listen.
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