Ritz &amp; Escoffier was fascinating, a little chatty and gossipy but perhaps that’s appropriate for the subject matter. I wasn’t aware how much those two shaped the modern hotel and restaurant businesses.

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Ritz & Escoffier was fascinating, a little chatty and gossipy but perhaps that’s appropriate for the subject matter. I wasn’t aware how much those two shaped the modern hotel and restaurant businesses.

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Now starting Ritz & Escoffier: The Hotelier, the Chef & the Rise of the Leisure Class by Luke Barr.

— 7/8/2019 6:56am ∞
The Raven Tower was a fascinating little puzzle-box of betrayal, revenge, and metaphysics. Highly recommended.

— 7/7/2019 11:42am ∞
Okay. Now starting The Raven Tower by Ann Leckie.

— 7/2/2019 10:43pm ∞
What to read next? Recent releases are (in rough order of how long I think they’ll take to read)
- Empress of Forever, Max Gladstone
- The Raven Tower, Ann Leckie
- Fall, Neal Stephenson
Or, something like Why Buddhism is True from the long list.

— 7/2/2019 7:26am ∞
Finished reading The Collector by Jack Nisbet, a biography of David Douglas, the naturalist of Douglas-fir fame. Almost more interesting as a window on life as a European in the early-19th-century Pacific Northwest.

— 7/1/2019 10:33pm ∞