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Mushrooms: Deeply Delicious Recipes, from Soups and Salads to Pasta and Pies

Jenny Linford

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A celebration of mushrooms and fungi - from folklore to foraging. Plus a collection of more than 65...

＊✿❀ Maki ❀✿＊ (7 KP) rated Lore in Podcasts

May 3, 2018 (Updated May 3, 2018)

Lore

Society & Culture

8.8

(35 Ratings)

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interesting stories (1 more)

amazingly atmospheric background music

can get repetitive (1 more)

"it seems"

I really like the premise of Lore. I'm endlessly fascinated by folklore, and the narrative structure of the podcast works for me. They're the perfect length to keep my attention, and the background music helps set the mood for the stories.

I only really have two small issues with Lore:

First, there's the somewhat repetitive nature of the subject matter (before every episode, my husband and I place bets on whether or not the episode is going to mention vampires, pooka, or H.H. Holmes - and lately - the Fox Sisters or Arthur Conan Doyle.) I do realize there's really only so many stories Menke can tell before he runs out of stories though, especially with the North American/UK-centric slant of the show.

And second, I don't mean to nitpick, but sometimes, it seems, Menke tends to overuse "it seems" as an interjection. It seems.

I apologize in advance if you can never unhear that writing quirk.

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Suswatibasu (1703 KP) rated Never Let Me Go in Books

Mar 6, 2018

Grim reading, but completely unexpected

For readers of Kazuo Ishiguro's other books, this will come as another surprise. While Remains of the Day is a period drama, and the Buried Giant is folklore, this novel reads as a dystopian fiction. What this shows is the author's incredible versatility at writing different themes, each as good as the other.

The story follows Kathy H., a carer to dying patients, and her mysterious upbringing alongside her charges at a secluded boarding school. From the beginning, we are introduced to the concept of 'donors', and it only becomes apparent after some time what it truly means. As a child, her and her fellow classmates were urged to be overly health-conscious with a special focus on artwork, which is said to be taken away to a gallery if exceptional. But when the students begin to question about its necessity, they understand that not all is what it seems.

From cloning to transplants, this book is both daring and alarming - and perhaps one of my favourite Ishiguro novels so far.