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Wednesday Reading Meme
Dec. 7th, 2016 08:03 amWhat I’ve Just Finished Reading
Grace Lin’s When the Sea Turned to Silver, which was delightful, although it made me realize how vague are my memories of the earlier two books in the series. There are a lot of bits that I thought were probably callbacks to the other books (and is Pinmei’s Amah supposed to be Minli from Where the Mountain Meets the Moon?), but I don’t recall any of the details, only the general sense of enchantment and delight.
What I’m Reading Now
Lenore Newman’s Speaking in Cod Tongues: A Canadian Culinary Journey, which sadly I think is going to have less luscious food description than that title implies. Although maybe I’m wrong? Prove me wrong, book! Scale back the academic theorizing about the symbolic nation-building nature of constructing a cuisine and invest in food description instead!
What I Plan to Read Next
Netgalley has at last come through with a copy of Helen Rappaport’s Caught in the Revolution: Petrograd, Russia, 1917 - A World on the Edge. Will it be packed brimful with fascinating Russian Revolution anecdotes? I can only hope!
Grace Lin’s When the Sea Turned to Silver, which was delightful, although it made me realize how vague are my memories of the earlier two books in the series. There are a lot of bits that I thought were probably callbacks to the other books (and is Pinmei’s Amah supposed to be Minli from Where the Mountain Meets the Moon?), but I don’t recall any of the details, only the general sense of enchantment and delight.
What I’m Reading Now
Lenore Newman’s Speaking in Cod Tongues: A Canadian Culinary Journey, which sadly I think is going to have less luscious food description than that title implies. Although maybe I’m wrong? Prove me wrong, book! Scale back the academic theorizing about the symbolic nation-building nature of constructing a cuisine and invest in food description instead!
What I Plan to Read Next
Netgalley has at last come through with a copy of Helen Rappaport’s Caught in the Revolution: Petrograd, Russia, 1917 - A World on the Edge. Will it be packed brimful with fascinating Russian Revolution anecdotes? I can only hope!
