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Mark Bittman, How to Cook Everything: Summer
When I decided to learn how to cook, I kind of went overboard buying cookbooks, most of which I didn't read. For now, I've narrowed it down to four: Mark Bittman's How to Cook Everything, Deborah Madison's Vegetarian Cooking for Everyone, a book on Jewish cooking ( Read more... )

What did you just finish reading?
( Heather Gladney, Kate Elliott, Shirley Jackson, Yumi Tamura, Stephanie Kuehn )

What did you just finish?
Do people do everything they've been reading in a week or just the most recent thing they've finished? I started off with the latter but have been moving towards the former. So:

Kate Zambreno, Heroines: Massively frustrating. I don't know whether I want to write this up or not. But (since this relates to current ( Read more... )

What did you just finish?
Once I finished rereading Elizabeth Wein, I went on to rereading Lois McMaster Bujold's Vorkosigan books, not in any particular order -- well, in a particular order, but one whose logic is hard to describe: Memory going forward to A Civil Campaign, then back to Shards of Honor and more or less forward from there. I tried ( Read more... )

What are you reading now?
Virginia Woolf's second novel, Night and Day.  Formally, it's very traditional--much more traditional than her later work, unsurprisingly, but also much more traditional than her first novel, The Voyage Out. The Victorian novel, or even the Edwardian novel with a touch of comedy of manners? romantic comedy?, is so the wrong ( Read more... )

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