P365.2025, Week 1

Did P365 peter out last year, despite me having a lot of really awesome photos? Yes, it did. (I suppose I could do some retroactive posting...)

Do I want to try again and hope to do better, particularly as this year we're all going to need bright spots?
Yep.

Going to do weekly posting again, as I think that will work better. I just need to not fall behind this time. Wish me luck. Posts for subsequent weeks should be on Wednesdays. (I set a reminder. Also, that might help with posting Reading Wednesday on time.)

( Hope springs eternal )

P365 2025 masterpost

Reading Wednesday, late

Got home late last night and read a new book in one sitting.

New Fiction
Adrift in Currents Clean and Clear is the latest in Seanan McGuire's Wayward Children series. This book is about Nadya, who we first saw in Beneath The Sugar Sky. The ending is absolutely heartbreaking, and a reminder just why is so many of these children end up at Elanor West's school.

Cookbooks
Cooking With Magic: A Century of Recipes from Disney. (Library book) - nice to page through, would not buy. Disney have taken their films and tried to pick recipes that might associate well with them. It's one thing when you see fans doing this, or making things that were actually in media, but most of this is just 'this goes along with the movie I guess'. (I'm getting persnickety, but the styling of the photos wasn't even that great.) Feels like Disney just trying to make money because they saw something they weren't in on.

Esse in Hesse - it is not unusual for me to come back from travels with a new cookbook, and this was the one from the Germany trip. Given I've actually developed a taste for rotkohl, it might be useful. Obviously I will not be able to make everything in this one. I have no idea where I'd find Handkäs hereabouts.

The Jewish Holiday Kitchen by Joan Nathan (Library book)
Old school cookbook (original edition 1979). No photos, just lots of recipes collected from all over with some verses from the Bible, blurbs about various occasions, and explanations of where the recipes came from, along with menu suggestions. Pretty sure there's something in here for all tastes and/or occasions. Also, I feel you have to appreciate a cookbook author who writes "the amount this recipe feeds depends on the number of latkes eaten the night before".

New non-fiction
None. Have not been in the mood, though I do have several out from the library.

Re-reads
Jane of Lantern Hill (I've been on an LM Montgomery kick over the holidays, and this was the last of them. At least, until I can find where Magic for Marigold ended up, because it was not in the same box as the others.)


I feel like I need some new books & reading icons. May have to make them myself.