{"id":13406,"date":"2020-09-11T15:20:54","date_gmt":"2020-09-11T19:20:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/?p=13406"},"modified":"2023-12-22T08:26:20","modified_gmt":"2023-12-22T13:26:20","slug":"a-wizards-guide-to-defensive-baking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/13406","title":{"rendered":"A Wizard’s Guide To Defensive Baking"},"content":{"rendered":"

A Wizard’s Guide To Defensive Baking<\/a><\/em> (2020) T. Kingfisher<\/p>\n

\"A<\/a>Mona isn’t an impressive wizard. Her power is is with baked goods, which is very specific, and (as far as she can tell) not much good unless you’re a baker. Which she is.<\/p>\n

But someone is killing wizards, and it seems like Mona isn’t quite as minor as she thinks she is.<\/p>\n

She is, as I said, wizard that controls baked goods.<\/p>\n

Bob popped several bubbles, which is his version of an enthusiastic greeting. Bob is my sourdough starter. <\/p>\n

He\u2019s the first big magic I ever really did, and I didn\u2019t know what I was doing, so I overdid it.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

You\u2019re feeling really dry<\/em>, I suggested to the bread. Really stale. Hard as a rock<\/em>. 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.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I have no idea what I thought this story was going to be, but it wasn’t at all what I was expecting.<\/p>\n

Which is perfectly fine, because it was a fun story.<\/p>\n

Generally you have to be careful when you add water and flour to a sourdough starter, to make sure that you\u2019ve got the right proportions and all, but in Bob\u2019s case, it was easy. I stuck both hands into the soup tureen and tried to convince him that what the world needed was a whole lot more Bob. As this coincided with what Bob himself had always believed, pretty soon I had commandeered a horse trough and had footmen dumping fifty pound sacks of flour into it.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Although this isn’t quite a kid’s book, it would definitely be fine for older kids. It’s just a little dark, and there are some themes that younger kids might not get. But there’s nothing in it not ok for kids.<\/p>\n

Publisher : Red Wombat Studio
\nRating: 7.5\/10<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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