{"id":27844,"date":"2015-01-17T06:30:04","date_gmt":"2015-01-16T17:30:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/?p=27844"},"modified":"2015-01-16T17:06:22","modified_gmt":"2015-01-16T04:06:22","slug":"im-already-liking-jo-waltons-among-others-a-lot-because","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2015\/01\/17\/im-already-liking-jo-waltons-among-others-a-lot-because\/","title":{"rendered":"I’m Already Liking Jo Walton’s “Among Others” A Lot, Because…"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Among<\/a>Yesterday I shared that the next book off the To Be Read ranks<\/a> would be Jo Walton’s Hugo and Nebula Award-winning Among Others<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

In order to take full advantage of my reading holiday—which, dear readers, means a holiday with lots of reading goodness added, as opposed to a holiday from<\/em> reading*—I began reading at once and am already pretty sure Among Others<\/strong><\/em> will prove to be my kind of book. Here’s why:<\/p>\n

On page 59, the main character, Mori, states that, “Interlibrary loans are a wonder of the world and a glory of civilization.”<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Hear, hear! In fact, libraries are a glory of civilization, in my humble option—so you may see why the story is already “speaking” to me. \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n

\"Like<\/a>

The alchemy of food…<\/p><\/div>\n

Then on page 91, Mori reflects on the alchemy of food:<\/p>\n

“It was lovely to be cooking with actual food. There’s something so grounding about it. It’s not that I was doing any magic, beyond the magic it is to take big flat mushrooms and raw potatoes and turn them into something delicious. I was just making dinner. But I wonder how much of cooking for someone else is magic anyway, more than I know about. I think it all might be.”<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

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… & “how much of cooking for someone else is magic anyway…”<\/p><\/div>\n

 <\/p>\n

As both a foodie and a keen home cook, I think it all might be, too…<\/p>\n

And am keen to read on.<\/p>\n

—<\/p>\n

*In the Helen Lowe 'verse a \"holiday \r\nfrom<\/em> reading\" is an oxymoron: \r\nindividually each of those words \r\nmay exist in the lexicon, but \r\ncollectively they are meaningless.<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Yesterday I shared that the next book off the To Be Read ranks would be Jo Walton’s Hugo and Nebula Award-winning Among Others. In order to take full advantage of my reading holiday—which, dear readers, means a holiday with lots of reading goodness added, as opposed to a holiday from reading*—I began reading at once […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27844","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-what-im-reading"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27844","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27844"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27844\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27855,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27844\/revisions\/27855"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}