books

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

The Raven Tower was a fascinating little puzzle-box of betrayal, revenge, and metaphysics. Highly recommended.

Okay. Now starting The Raven Tower by Ann Leckie.

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.

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.