Books 87-88
Oct. 10th, 2009 10:34 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
subplotkudzu87) Confections of a Closet Master Baker: a lightweight little memoir from Gesine Bullock-Prado, who went from being the lawyer for her sister Sandra's production company in Hollywood to being a baker, shopkeeper and macaroon mail order guru in Montpelier. She's got an engaging enough style, and each chapter is, by tradition in cooking memoirs, bracketed by a recipe. It was frothy and fun, but I suspect would mean more to people who actually, ya'know, baked. Rachel enjoyed it as well.
88) The Selected Works of T.S. Spivit: Rief Larson's book about a 12 year old boy who compulsively maps making his way from Montana to Washington DC to accept a prize from the Smithsonian, the book has glorious marginialia that maps various aspects of Spivit's family life and journey. I got a little concerned when the book started following the standard 'novel' tropes (or hero has a metaphorical descent into the underworld rough 3/5ths of the way through, and gains knowledge that will make it hard for him to return to his old life), but it righted itself well enough in the end.
88) The Selected Works of T.S. Spivit: Rief Larson's book about a 12 year old boy who compulsively maps making his way from Montana to Washington DC to accept a prize from the Smithsonian, the book has glorious marginialia that maps various aspects of Spivit's family life and journey. I got a little concerned when the book started following the standard 'novel' tropes (or hero has a metaphorical descent into the underworld rough 3/5ths of the way through, and gains knowledge that will make it hard for him to return to his old life), but it righted itself well enough in the end.
