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19th book of 2024: “Sourdough”, by Robin Sloan ( [https://www.robinsloan.com/books/sourdough/](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](./112949694635010255.jpeg)