A Drizzle of Honey

A Drizzle of Honey: The Lives and Recipes of Spain's Secret Jews, David M. Gitlitz and Linda Kay Davidson. This was one of the references Gail Carson Levine used in writing A Ceiling Made of Eggshells, which they turned out to have at my local library, so, hey. I haven't cooked anything from it yet, but enough of the recipes sounded interesting that I bought the ebook. There's also a lot of fascinating context for the recipes about the lives of conversos and crypto-Jews, although please note that a lot of these stories end with "and then the Inquisition burned him at the stake". I personally found it moving that we have these details about their lives and can try to imagine or recreate the food they ate. (And to think in general about life under a hostile and oppressive regime, hm.) I'll note for eggplant partiers that there are a lot of eggplant recipes in this, although I don't intend to cook any of them myself since I continue to not actually like eggplant.

Fence: Striking Distance

Fence: Striking Distance, Sarah Rees Brennan, tie-in to CS Pacat's comic series. I was very excited about this, and it was definitely a fun read, although also occasionally a little jarring - character traits that worked in the comic felt a little "turned up to 11" here, and there were a few moments when obliviousness/spacetoasterness crossed the line into "too dumb to live". But, I mean, I continue to love all of them and their various dumbnesses, and I like Brennan's takes on the characters, too. (Although it was also jarring that I had just reread Drop Dead Gorgeous recently, and some of the character voices and quirks were really strongly reminiscent of that, which I'm sure SRB would hate for anyone to talk about, but, sorry SRB, there it was.)