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Today I was making some sourdough, and went to look in the "bread section" of our library and found this book, that I don't think I've read before.

This book is a small volume (about 12cm by 18cm (or for those of us in the dark ages (including largely myself) 5 in by 7 in (very rough measurements)) with a decent font size (ie not like some small volumes where it's hard to read because they dropped the font size) and only 155 pages.

It was not difficult to read in the space of about 4 hours... Which really surprised me.

As I've found with other sourdough books (and other stuff with sourdough) it starts out saying how easy sourdough is... Then ends up explaining it not exactly in excruciating detail but far more detail than seems necessary, to explain sourdough.

Interestingly this isn't as heavy on the recipes as some of the other books I've seen which I'd say for me is actually a big plus. The problem with the recipes is that they aren't well formatted, and are repetitive. And a few actually are actually lacking details.

The recipes are written out in "exposition form" as in full paragraphs. It makes them a lot easier to read as "just text" but it will make it harder to follow if you're going to follow the recipes. This does make the repetition of the same basic steps a little bit easier to take, because it more flows.

There are some good tips here that I have to say actually are rather useful. And well... a section I think is actually great in showing how the bread evolves over time, and how to use that evolving bread.

This is a little hard to review... It's short stories, they kind of span a range of genres, and what ties them together are there are disabled characters, written by disabled authors.

A lot of the stories have some queer element to them. Most that do not clearly have a queer element to them, it is simply that there's little or no mention of anything that would point in that direction.

The range of stories is pretty impressive. It's a relatively slim volume with 22 stories (if I counted correctly).

Some of the stories do have disturbing elements. I'd say for me even that was really well handled. Other books (Nod which I think there's already a review I've done of it here, and Son of a Trickster which I recently finished...) have had disturbing elements which it's felt were rather poorly handled (you couldn't really process it if it was something that did disturb you).

The subject matter of this book makes it really very difficult to read, and while it covers it really quite well... It goes from, "This is weird, and I am pretty sure it is something along this line," to getting closer and closer to understanding the basics of what is going on, and it kind of takes the story in a way that it just does not feel like it had to basically not get better until "happily ever after"... Especially that it pretty much was a "happily ever after" ending to a story that would continue to play out in the two main characters lives for months or years quite easily... A little too "ended with a nice bow on it..." Not that you would have wanted it to end with much before when it did based on what the author had. Just it was too tied up at the end. And happy...