Originally published at: I loved "A Wizard's Guide To Defensive Baking" | Boing Boing
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Violence in the kitchen, please no that ain’t love’n from the oven.
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Read it a year or two back. Was just looking for a light read between heavier books, and it ended up being one of my favorite books I read that year. Wonderful characters, excellent humor and drama and suspense, loved the stuffins out of it. After this and “The Twisted Ones,” I consider almost anything Kingfisher/Vernon writes to be a must-read.
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YES!!!
Full disclosure: I’ve known Ursula (T. Kingfisher) for a long time and have had the pleasure of dinner with her and her husband Kevin when I’ve visited (former) family in North Carolina. I’m not kidding when I say they were part of my mental safety net when visiting, a very firm bit of “My People!” in a place that now feels so foreign to me, despite having grown up there. She and Kevin are officially good people, so yeah, I might be a little biased on this!
However, I can’t praise her writing enough even without that connection. This is a well written book, great characters, and perhaps a nice dose of practical social philosophy. The author’s notes include an interesting look at her efforts to get this story published; some publishers seeing it as too dark for a children’s book, but ultimately lacking any other category for marketing. There may be some commentary about the failure of the concept of market demographics to be had there, of course.
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If you enjoy books about magical bread stuffs, check out Sourdough by Robin Sloan.
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I haz a jealous. I’m sad to be missing this year’s JoCo Cruise because she will be one of the featured guests (even though a cruise is about negative eleventy on my must-do list). I might catalog this in Young Adult, but that means an excellent piece of writing would likely get repeatedly overlooked. Her juvenile writing is equally as good; I love Harriet the Hamster Princess and Castle Hangnail.
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Added to my list.
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At this point in her career, anything Ursula Vernon/T Kingfisher (she uses both for her various writing lines) publishes is a must-read for me. She just consistently puts out solid, entertaining books.
(I really would love to see “The Twisted Ones” optioned for a thriller film…)
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Pratchett’s Dwarves are experts in Offensive Baking, for example forging the Scone of Stone.
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I read the post, added the book to my “to- read” list. (Jason’s recommendations have served me well). Then i came to the BBS, read your comment and i was like “hey, i am going on the JoCo cruise!”
I probably wouldn’t have made any connection without you pointing it out.
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