FIrst Actual Post!

[ann_leckie]

Hey! Glad you stopped by! This is the first actual post. There's no real content here yet.

What's everybody reading? Anything good? Or watching?

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[genarti]

Currently I'm reading Edible Memory: The Lure of Heirloom Tomatoes and Other Forgotten Foods, by Jennifer A. Jordan. (Well, I always have multiple books going, but that's my current commute reading.) It's well-written and really fascinating! She doesn't just talk about heirloom tomatoes and their ilk, but also about biodiversity, and the stories people construct about and for their food, and the ways in which food can be a root for personal memory and created heritage whether it's homegrown vegetables or dollar store cake mix. I'm really enjoying it.

Before that, I devoured Briarley, which is a lovely little queer Beauty and the Beast retelling set in WWII Britain, in which the Beast is an 1830s nobleman and Beauty is a gentle parson who is not going to send his daughter to a beast because he plucked a rose, a) what kind of horrible father would be be if he did that, also b) she's got important war ambulance volunteer work to be about, and anyway if the Beast needs love to break the curse has he considered getting a puppy? It's delightful.

[rmc28]

I really enjoyed Briarley.

[alchimie]

Edible Memory sounds excellent!