A Wizard’s Guide To Defensive Baking

A Wizard’s Guide To Defensive Baking (2020) T. Kingfisher narrated by Patricia Santomasso

You’re feeling really dry, I suggested to the bread. Really stale. Hard as a rock. Usually I have to be touching something in order to make it do anything really impressive, but for just going stale, as long as I can see it, I can work with it. It wants to go stale. Bread is very accommodating that way.

“Is something troubling you, my child?” he asked, after a while. And before I could say anything, he smiled and added, “It doesn’t matter if you tell me, you know. I am stone-deaf and cannot hear it anyway. It makes me very popular in the confessional these days.”

I pulled Spindle in with me and made him wash.

He muttered. “This soap smells like roses.”

“Yes, isn’t it nice?”

“No.”

Characters: Mona, Aunt Tabitha, Uncle Albert, Bob, Constable Alphonse, Constable Montgomery, Miss McGrammar, Master Elwidge, Mrs. Weatherfort, Brutus, Widow Holloway, Inquisitor Oberon, Duchess, Lord Ethan, the Golden General, Knackering Molly, Spring Green Man, Tibbie, Spindle, Argonel, Jenny, Lena

Publisher: Tantor Audio

Rating: 9/10

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