{"id":2698,"date":"2017-11-09T18:44:31","date_gmt":"2017-11-09T18:44:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.ackgame.com\/onwords\/?p=2698"},"modified":"2017-11-09T18:44:31","modified_gmt":"2017-11-09T18:44:31","slug":"sourdough-robin-sloan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.ackgame.com\/onwords\/sourdough-robin-sloan\/","title":{"rendered":"<em>Sourdough<\/em> by Robin Sloan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/33916024-sourdough\" style=\"float: left; padding-right: 20px\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Sourdough\" src=\"https:\/\/images.gr-assets.com\/books\/1490804609m\/33916024.jpg\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/33916024-sourdough\">Sourdough<\/a> by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/author\/show\/2960227.Robin_Sloan\">Robin Sloan<\/a><br \/>\nMy rating: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/review\/show\/2179238559\">3 of 5 stars<\/a><\/p>\n<p><i>Sourdough<\/i> lacks the charm of Sloan&#8217;s first book, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/13538873.Mr__Penumbra_s_24_Hour_Bookstore__Mr__Penumbra_s_24_Hour_Bookstore___1_\" title=\"Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore (Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore, #1) by Robin Sloan\" rel=\"nofollow\">Mr. Penumbra&#8217;s 24-Hour Bookstore<\/a> but displays much of the same imagination and cleverness of style. The plot centers around Lois Clary, a robotic arm programmer in San Francisco who discovers the joy of sourdough bread. Soon she receives her own sourdough starter and begins to bake for her coworkers. This becomes a passion and finally a calling.<\/p>\n<p>Tension builds throughout as things progress in unexpected ways, but I found the author&#8217;s resolution clumsy and unsatisfying. It can be called intriguing and unoffensive, which is not to be read as damned by faint praise, nor is it to be considered high praise. It was a quick, mildly entertaining read.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/review\/list\/12975428-russell-atkinson\">View all my reviews<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sourdough by Robin Sloan My rating: 3 of 5 stars Sourdough lacks the charm of Sloan&#8217;s first book, Mr. Penumbra&#8217;s 24-Hour Bookstore but displays much of the same imagination and cleverness of style. 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