Sourdough
Ratings131
Average rating3.9
This was an interesting read.
Can't say I've read something like this before, but also I'm not sure it's for everyone. Needless to say, I kept thinking about this weeks after finishing it.
You follow this woman as she “lives” her mundane life without any sort of excitement. She sleeps, goes to work, eats this energy-protein-mix to sustain herself, and repeats. It's only after she orders delivery from two brothers that everything changes for her. She starts a new hobby, she makes friends with them, she starts to think about new career choices, and she stopped drinking that f*ing sht.
Somehow, we find ourselves rooting for her, but then the story takes some “liberties” that could be interpreted as “magical realism”. Cutting it short, there's a point in the novel that (well, actually it was foreshadowed in the emails exchanged between the protagonist and the eldest of the brothers) catches you by surprise a little, but you just roll with it. Then something else happens, and you're like, “what?” in the surreal kind of way. Yet, I personally also rolled with it, even if I still can't accept certain characters disgustingly got away with somethings.
In the end, there's a lesson to be learned here (like with every book), but I feel this one only displays to the one who reads it; I feel the author quoted Rick Sanchez on this one: “There's a lesson here and I'm not going to be the one to figure it out”.
This was an interesting read.
Can't say I've read something like this before, but also I'm not sure it's for everyone. Needless to say, I kept thinking about this weeks after finishing it.
You follow this woman as she “lives” her mundane life without any sort of excitement. She sleeps, goes to work, eats this energy-protein-mix to sustain herself, and repeats. It's only after she orders delivery from two brothers that everything changes for her. She starts a new hobby, she makes friends with them, she starts to think about new career choices, and she stopped drinking that f*ing sht.
Somehow, we find ourselves rooting for her, but then the story takes some “liberties” that could be interpreted as “magical realism”. Cutting it short, there's a point in the novel that (well, actually it was foreshadowed in the emails exchanged between the protagonist and the eldest of the brothers) catches you by surprise a little, but you just roll with it. Then something else happens, and you're like, “what?” in the surreal kind of way. Yet, I personally also rolled with it, even if I still can't accept certain characters disgustingly got away with somethings.
In the end, there's a lesson to be learned here (like with every book), but I feel this one only displays to the one who reads it; I feel the author quoted Rick Sanchez on this one: “There's a lesson here and I'm not going to be the one to figure it out”.
Very fun. A book that kept me smiling and laughing and invested the whole read.
Very fun. A book that kept me smiling and laughing and invested the whole read.
A delightful, sweet, smart fantasy. Snappy first-person narration, clever but not pretentious. Surprisingly nerdy, in very good ways: Sloan truly gets nerdiness, the need to find and solve challenges. He also gets startups, and baking, and the search for meaning. He has a gift for absurdity. I was reminded of Carl Hiaasen a few times, but without the violence and with much, much more self-awareness, delicious tender thoughtful curiosity and discovery.
You will need to suspend disbelief. Not the singing, sentient sourdough—I’m totally ok with that—it’s the time management. How the protagonist manages a startup job and baking and everything else, that’s a bit of a stretch! But I was ok with that, too, in the satisfying end.
A delightful, sweet, smart fantasy. Snappy first-person narration, clever but not pretentious. Surprisingly nerdy, in very good ways: Sloan truly gets nerdiness, the need to find and solve challenges. He also gets startups, and baking, and the search for meaning. He has a gift for absurdity. I was reminded of Carl Hiaasen a few times, but without the violence and with much, much more self-awareness, delicious tender thoughtful curiosity and discovery.
You will need to suspend disbelief. Not the singing, sentient sourdough—I’m totally ok with that—it’s the time management. How the protagonist manages a startup job and baking and everything else, that’s a bit of a stretch! But I was ok with that, too, in the satisfying end.