5/10/2023 0 Comments Sourdough by robin sloan review![]() It’s light and breezy, full of truisms and quotables, and will make you laugh and ponder. Penumbra’s, and I say it does with books what Sourdough does with food, you’ll understand. How do I explain the magic? If you’ve read Mr. But before they leave, they gift Lois with some of their special sourdough starter with a mind of it’s own…and Lois’s life doesn’t just change. Lois is saved! Lois’s life isn’t terrible! Until the spicy brothers’ visas expire and they have to leave the country. ![]() Foreign and mysterious brothers who run a delivery restaurant out of their apartment make her food and change her life with spicy soup and sandwiches on sourdough. Poor Lois, alone in the big city–until she discovers the double spicy. The high cost of living…the pressure to deliver…the hours…the un-sustainable life style. Lois can write code for robots! She can change the world! 4x bump in salary! Sunny California! The big city! Sourdough was perfectly charming and immensely readable! It’s a story about Lois, a 20-something computer programmer who gets recruited from her ho-hum job writing code for a car company in Michigan by a flashy, spirit-of-a-start-up tech company in San Francisco. ![]() Obviously it’s going to be boring, right? ![]() Sourdough was awesome, and I didn’t expect it to be. I’m seeing a trend when I read books by Robin Sloan… ![]() I went back to check out my review after I read it back in 2015…guess what I wrote? Penumbra’s 24-Hour Book Store? You should. ![]()
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