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Reading Wednesday
Jan. 9th, 2019 09:10 pmSomebody recommended Consider the Fork - A History of How We Cook and Eat by Bee Wilson and I thoroughly enjoyed it. An easy read, but with a lot of interesting background about the history of cooking and food in different cultures. It makes very good points about how the nature of prestigious food has changed over time and how no-one really cared about labour-saving devices, until they had to actually do the work. :-)
One of the side effects of watching the Clone Wars animated Star Wars series, which I highly recommend if you are at all interested in Star Wars, is that I've actually become much more interested in stories set during the Prequel Era - it's managed to get me invested in the characters in a way the films never did.
Of course, being me, I'm most interested in the various ways that things can be fixed, or at least made less dark, and one major story type is one that sends one of the characters, or their knowledge of the future, back in time.
If I had to list my absolute favourite I'd go for the Reprise series by Elfpen in which Obi-Wan is sent back when he dies aboard the Death Star, to 40 years before. After over 400k words, the series as a whole isn't yet finished, but each constituent part finishes in a sensible place and it gives the reader a chance to spend a lot of time in the old Jedi Order, seeing how events are gradually changed by the addition of the wisdom and experience of the future.
One of the side effects of watching the Clone Wars animated Star Wars series, which I highly recommend if you are at all interested in Star Wars, is that I've actually become much more interested in stories set during the Prequel Era - it's managed to get me invested in the characters in a way the films never did.
Of course, being me, I'm most interested in the various ways that things can be fixed, or at least made less dark, and one major story type is one that sends one of the characters, or their knowledge of the future, back in time.
If I had to list my absolute favourite I'd go for the Reprise series by Elfpen in which Obi-Wan is sent back when he dies aboard the Death Star, to 40 years before. After over 400k words, the series as a whole isn't yet finished, but each constituent part finishes in a sensible place and it gives the reader a chance to spend a lot of time in the old Jedi Order, seeing how events are gradually changed by the addition of the wisdom and experience of the future.
