Weekend Reading

[ironed_orchid]

What do you plan to read this weekend?

Everything counts! Whether it's a book, the Sunday paper, an article you opened in a new tab and promptly forgot about, or the labels on your washing.

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[ironed_orchid]

I've got four glorious and much needed days off, so I'm hoping to finish re-reading Busman's Honeymoon, and catch up on social media.

[rmc28]

I've been meaning to reread Ancillary Sword for a while and keep failing to start (not entirely sure why but suspect busy+stressed has something to do with it).

I still adore my new Hudl2 tablet and would like to read this week's Economist on it (getting back into that habit) and start on one of the many many comics I have downloaded to it.

[ironed_orchid]

I have a couple of books I've been meaning to start, but don't want to start late on a weeknight in case I end up staying up to finish them. But then when my days off roll around, I'm halfway through something else, or not in the mood for certain genres.

[davidgillon]

I think I'm going to console myself WRT the two separate parties with friends I'm missing today by spending the afternoon in the garden with 'State Machine', the new Rachel Peng novel by K B Spangler, a bottle of wine, and quite possibly a pizza.

[ironed_orchid]

That sounds like a good form of consolation.

[fred_mouse]

I had planned to fit uni reading in today, but instead read a long and angsty MCU fic in which Steve Rogers keeps resetting within his own timeline in the five minute breaks between housework. Tomorrow - ???

[ironed_orchid]

For a second I thought that Steve Rogers was doing housework.

[fred_mouse]

*snerk* I could be so lucky. Obviously a grammar fail, but I can't work out how to fix it...

[weaverbird]

More of Jane Eyre, that Harriet and Peter essay (finally), maybe some old family letters for a project I have a mind to try, Twitter and related news links, recipes for making yogurt.

[ironed_orchid]

Good luck with your yogurt!

I read two different sourdough recipes today and ended up using a combination, I had the starter and sponge already made using the first recipe, but made the loaf following the second.

[weaverbird]

Sourdough is on my bucket list. Hope yours came out delicious! Do you plan to keep a starter growing permanently?

Found a copy online of the manual for the vintage yogurt maker I unearthed from the back of the closet. \o/ I shall start a batch this afternoon, so it can incubate overnight. I've made it before in the crock pot, and it was a success, but it's fussy to do. The yogurt maker is brainlessly easy - no need to monitor the temperature and so forth.

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[ironed_orchid]

Good icon!

It came out pretty good, but unlike the breads I've made using package yeast, I like it better as toast than fresh.

My starter is still good. I plan to try to make a loaf every week, so that will be a good routine for feeding the starter on a regular basis.

[weaverbird]

Thanks! For once I got a picture before cutting into the loaves.

That's interesting about toast vs. fresh; I wonder what it is about the sourdough that makes you feel that way? Me, unless a loaf is still warm and steamy from the oven, my default preference is for toast.

A weekly loaf of sourdough sounds lovely. Good plan. *g*

[ironed_orchid]

I default to toast, except for homemade bread, but most of the bread I buy is sourdough from a local bakery.

I think for me it's something to do with the balance between sponginess and crumbliness, and sourdoughs tend toward the spongy end of the spectrum, so toasting restores some crumbliness.

[weaverbird]

Yep, that makes sense! All this bread talk is making me hungry. *g* Need to bump sourdough up the to-do list.

[alexseanchai]

Whatever the crowdfunding Creative Jam spawns. (Y'all should totally drop by and leave prompts on the theme of 'hope'! Give the people playing more possibilities to write about!)

And hopefully an actual book, or at least a chapter of a book. Probably The Wisdom of the Myths (if I go for book) or The Wisdom of Hypatia (if I go for chapter). Or possibly the ancient Greek self-study course's first lesson. Or maybe I'll reread snippets of Pillars of Humanity and Longing for Wisdom in order to write the next thing in my blog post series—wait no given the next topic in line maybe I should reread A Beginner's Guide to Hellenismos and then read Hellenic Polytheism: Household Worship.

I also keep clicking back to the dashboard of sunbowpublications.com in hopes of new comments. This is silly, because I have it set up to email me new comments, but still.

You understand why I never get anything done!