Fifth book: took a break from all the serious stuff I’m reading to get and read Kitchen Confidential this week. Never read any of his stuff, but it turns out Bourdain’s writing on Parts Unknown is in exactly the same voice, so it was practically an audio book to read.

( https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/33313.Kitchen_Confidential)

Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underb…A deluxe, annotated edition of Kitchen Confidential to …Goodreads
Figure 1. Link preview of https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/33313.Kitchen_Confidential, "Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underb…"
the “updated edition” paperback cover of Kitchen Confidential by Anthony Bourdain, featuring a younger Bourdain in chef’s whites and an apron looking through the window of Les Halles, the restraunt he worked at when he wrote it
Figure 2. the “updated edition” paperback cover of Kitchen Confidential by Anthony Bourdain, featuring a younger Bourdain in chef’s whites and an apron looking through the window of Les Halles, the restraunt he worked at when he wrote it.

sixth book: volume two of Ursula K. Le Guin’s two volume collection, The Hainish Novels and Stories. ( https://www.ursulakleguin.com/hainish-novels-and-stories )

Ursula K. Le Guin — Hainish Novels and StoriesUrsula K. Le Guin
Figure 3. Link preview of https://www.ursulakleguin.com/hainish-novels-and-stories, "Ursula K. Le Guin — Hainish Novels and Stories".

I’ve been working my way through the stories in the second volume for years, picking it off my to-read pile now and again. This weekend I read the Five Ways to Forgiveness cycle and am about half way through The Telling, which has me enthralled, so I’m calling this one done early.

Strongest possible endorsement for the entire collection.

( https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/33533489-the-hainish-novels-and-stories)

The Hainish Novels and StoriesFor the first time, all of Ursula K. Le Guin’s Hainish …Goodreads
Figure 4. Link preview of https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/33533489-the-hainish-novels-and-stories, "The Hainish Novels and Stories".
a 3D rendering of the box that The Hainish Novels and Stories of Ursula K. Le Guin comes in. It has a wrap around color photo of a long-exposure shot of the night sky turning over mountains as the sun rises (or sets?) behind them. Kind of a boring cover tbh.
Figure 5. a 3D rendering of the box that The Hainish Novels and Stories of Ursula K. Le Guin comes in. It has a wrap around color photo of a long-exposure shot of the night sky turning over mountains as the sun rises (or sets?) behind them. Kind of a boring cover tbh.
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