I’m relieved to say I loved it. So much so I was close to skiving off college to finish it and found it very hard to stop reading it whilst I was there – I could feel it singing to me from my draw.
Once again it heavily features San Francisco complete with tech-creatives and a cool vibe. Sloan’s writing is refreshing and tongue in cheek without sounding too hipster.
It should come with a warning that you will become obsessed with nurturing and baking your own sourdough bread after reading it – that’s definitely on the agenda for my weekend.
Some writers can make boring topics interesting, and, unfortunately, some can make interesting subjects boring, but it takes a rare talent to make interesting topics even more interesting, and that's what you get here.
The premise is not promising. A thirty something computer programmer, Lois, moves to a new cutting edge job at a mega-tech facility in San Francisco and begins to feel vaguely unfulfilled. Then she meets two pleasantly eccentric brothers who bake a sourdough bread that becomes her daily ritual. The brothers leave the country and entrust our heroine with their starter culture. She starts baking bread. Is this going to become some sort of Eat, Pray, Bake? Nope.
Once again it heavily features San Francisco complete with tech-creatives and a cool vibe. Sloan’s writing is refreshing and tongue in cheek without sounding too hipster.
It should come with a warning that you will become obsessed with nurturing and baking your own sourdough bread after reading it – that’s definitely on the agenda for my weekend.
Some writers can make boring topics interesting, and, unfortunately, some can make interesting subjects boring, but it takes a rare talent to make interesting topics even more interesting, and that's what you get here.
The premise is not promising. A thirty something computer programmer, Lois, moves to a new cutting edge job at a mega-tech facility in San Francisco and begins to feel vaguely unfulfilled. Then she meets two pleasantly eccentric brothers who bake a sourdough bread that becomes her daily ritual. The brothers leave the country and entrust our heroine with their starter culture. She starts baking bread. Is this going to become some sort of Eat, Pray, Bake? Nope.