Dim Sum Palace by X. Fang

Wonderful children’s book about dim sum which is one of my favourite meals in the world.

Nov 9, 2025.

Frostbite: How Refrigeration Changed Our Food, Our Planet, and Ourselves by Nicola Twilley (Narrator)

I have been a Gastropod listener for many years. This was a long audiobook about the history of refrigeration, the current cold chin, and possible future. Very interesting and well done. Twilley’s Mid-Atlantic narration was good as usual.

Nov 7-14, 2025.

If You Run Out of Words by Felicita Sala

Children’s book about a daughter and father. Sweet.

Nov 14, 2025.

Midnight’s Children by Salman Rushdie

This was a journey. I did not really like this book until about the halfway mark and then, somehow, it grew on me. I did not care for the characters or the history lessons. There was some dry humour. I cannot tell if Rushdie loves or dislikes women, but they were some of the more interesting characters in the book. Most of all, I enjoyed the writing and how the writing was able to shift between realism and magical realm, and between first and third person. It did remind me of Marquez’s One Hundred Years of Solitude. It almost became relaxing to read as I felt the writing was taking me on a train ride through the protagonist and India’s history. I would not really recommend it for everyone and I am not in a rush to read Rushdie again. Still, there was some good storytelling.

November 8-16, 2025. First 40% on kobo Clara BW.

Kristy’s Great Idea (The Baby-sitters Club Graphic Novel Series #1) by Ann M. Martin with Raina Telgemeier (Illustrator)

Like many millennials, I grew up with the Babysitter’s Club books around me. I only read a couple of them growing up and was not obsessed with them. In the last ten years, there was a revival of the books, and through podcasts and the Netflix TV show, I became more interested than when I was a kid. I found this graphic novel of the first book in a friend’s rental building library. It was a great evening read for the end of the weekend. I am not a huge fan of Telgemeier’s art but this did the job.

Nov 16, 2025.