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I haven't been reading much, especially for my challenges, due to Octocon looming (Oct 7 & 8! Online and in Dublin!). Still, I managed an accidental one for the #MRC2023

Soto is Mexican/American living in the South Pacific, and threw several Indigenous Mexican dishes into this book. This book is all vibes, no plot, and that's just what I hoped for. I'm really curious about what these two will do when they finally quit their jobs.

For #MRC2023 July, I got 4 books read. 4! I've tagged Cat Sebastian's latest, which @willaful suggested for Building On Cover and thusly did I use it. Really surprised to enjoy it despite it being in present tense and some other marks against my tastes. Finna was a quick read but I'm glad I knew the author is NB or I'd have been annoyed by it. Queer Principles is a fabulous romp. The Yield is one of the most fascinating books I've read this year.

June's #MRC2023 reading was pretty minor, just an indie gay romance novel that was more tropes than plot or character development or even world building. It was fun though, and I'll probably read the rest of the series just for a lark, expecting it to be just as excessive and flimsy. Points for a fabulous cover, though. I could probably count some of the graphic novels or short works I read, but it's not that late in the year yet.

Just one book read for the #MRC2023 in May. It was a rough month, and my reading suffered for it (everything suffered for it). Nothing particularly wrong, just doldrums! Anyway, I would have finished Shadow-shapes in a single sitting (it's only 236 pages of a 1920 hardcover), but I was also doing my first pass of annotations. I'll be reading it again while I correct the OCR text, which is going much faster when I don't stop to move a footnote. 😆

For my April #MRC2023 I only added two books. Ordeal by Innocence was an ordeal, absolutely hated it. One of the worst Christie mysteries. On the other hand, Band Sinister was a delight. I especially enjoyed its effort to handle an open polycule situation, and that a Black man got to be both sensible and incredibly caustic. I would probably enjoy books or short stories with most of the secondaries, possibly more than Phil and Guy's story.

Happy New Year! Welcome to the #MRC2023 The 12 prompts fit rather nicely on a bingo card don't they? You can tag me to submit entries, and if you put your book in the same spot on the bingo card, I'll know that's an entry, or you can make individual posts and mention the prompt! All the shareables, printables, and ways to enter are on the blog as well.

The tagged book is a just one option of many for “A book featuring Indigenous food or cooking“.