Books

_Red Seas Under Red Skies_, Scott Lynch
_The Making of a Chef_, Michael Ruhlman

Red Seas.. is a successor to _The Lies of Locke Lamora_; apparently several others are planned. The new multilayered scams are set in a city a little more like Paris, or perhaps Monaco, than the fully-fleshed fantasy-Venice of the prior volume. We just get into the meat of the action when a sudden sea-voyage becomes unavoidable and the scene shifts to piracy around fantasy-Jamaica. While interesting, it really didn't involve me the way that the scam/counter-scam/hidden-scam plot did. Mostly, this feels like a competent middle volume of a trilogy.

Michael Ruhlman spent a year at the Culinary Institute of America and all he got was this book and a lot of insight into the profession of cooking. It seems that I like to read about people making food, even when it's not something I want to eat. Anyone have suggestions?

Books

_Red Seas Under Red Skies_, Scott Lynch
_The Making of a Chef_, Michael Ruhlman

Red Seas.. is a successor to _The Lies of Locke Lamora_; apparently several others are planned. The new multilayered scams are set in a city a little more like Paris, or perhaps Monaco, than the fully-fleshed fantasy-Venice of the prior volume. We just get into the meat of the action when a sudden sea-voyage becomes unavoidable and the scene shifts to piracy around fantasy-Jamaica. While interesting, it really didn't involve me the way that the scam/counter-scam/hidden-scam plot did. Mostly, this feels like a competent middle volume of a trilogy.

Michael Ruhlman spent a year at the Culinary Institute of America and all he got was this book and a lot of insight into the profession of cooking. It seems that I like to read about people making food, even when it's not something I want to eat. Anyone have suggestions?

Tempting fate.

Z is an enthusiastic reader, and he wants to read to other people. Like most beginning readers, though, he is largely sounding out the words for his own edification, and is not intelligible more than a foot or two away. On the one hand, I want to teach him to project. On the other hand, I am afraid of the uses to which he would put the new skill...

Tempting fate.

Z is an enthusiastic reader, and he wants to read to other people. Like most beginning readers, though, he is largely sounding out the words for his own edification, and is not intelligible more than a foot or two away. On the one hand, I want to teach him to project. On the other hand, I am afraid of the uses to which he would put the new skill...