19th book of 2024: “Sourdough”, by Robin Sloan ( https://www.robinsloan.com/books/sourdough/).

Re-using my comment on Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore: “Fun, light, very quick read. Very weird to read something so connected to ~2017~ techie-San-Francisco and get 100% of the references and roll my eyes at a few of them.”

Started Sloan’s newest, Moonbound, immediately afterward, and it’s very different so far.

The paperback cover of “Sourdough”, by Robin Sloan. btw, it would be cool if publishers wrote their own alt-texts for their own covers!A photograph of a pale and cracked loaf of bread on a barely tinted solid yellow is covered in yellow crinkle-cut ovals in a sticker effect, one has the title, another a blurb, and so on (pasted bwloe. The author’s name is in the lower left in a cooper-like all-caps block serif.Pasted words:INCLUDESNEWTALE OFTHEPENUMBRAVERSE,THE SUITCASE CLONESOURDOUGH"Deliciousfun... Asoddlydelectableas itsnamesake."THE WASHINGTONPOSTAUTHOR OFMr. Penumbras24-HourBookstoreROBINSLOAN