fingers crossed for you!

Same! I had not had such a strong urge to write for a while before starting this book. The complexity! The wittiness! Such a treat indeed—also such comfort to know there’s always this long series to go back to reading.

Let’s not forget the tariffs

so pretty! My diamine damson never looks quite so purple when I write with it

KJ Charles—never gone wrong :). Recently enjoyed EH Lupton.
Happy to take recs, too.

You’ve articulate so well why I can seem to make myself click play. It’s just the pov is so relentlessly bleak, which is not my cuppa in spite of everything else being well done.

Lavanya Lakshminarayan's Interstellar Megachef.
Grace Flahive's Palm Meridian
Natasha Pulley's The Mars House
Jess K. Hardy's Sunastara & the Venusian (with a dash or romcom)

German cuisine truly does not get enough credit (or any at all?)

I’m pretty sure this this THE best closet ever!