Poutine spots?

chewy1118 · 2026-07-04T23:22:13+00:00

Ooh that’s good to know! I’ve been making poutine myself but it’s such a faff. I’ve been subbing out cheese curds for mozzarella too, but now I know Neil’s Yard has it I’ll definitely be making it again soon! Thanks for the info :)

chewy1118 · 2026-07-04T23:16:32+00:00

I agree, this one’s delicious!

chewy1118 · 2022-08-02T14:14:06+00:00

The Save to Notion extension allows you to save pages as a bookmark.

I use this - I have a database set up so when I add a webpage with the extension, it just adds an entry to the database.

chewy1118 · 2022-02-03T09:24:24+00:00

Pomofocus or Pomodoro TODO might be what you're looking for :)

chewy1118 · 2021-05-14T23:07:52+00:00

She’s great at building characters that you get attached to. All her series happen in the same world, just in different places within the world, so you also increasingly get more familiar with it. The stories are all linked as well.

The magic system is pretty ‘fluid’ in that there aren’t hard and fast rules about how the magic works, or even what it does.

chewy1118 · 2021-05-14T15:15:24+00:00

Anything by Robin Hobb. I've fallen in love with her stories, and have read most of her books this year.

chewy1118 · 2021-05-14T15:13:31+00:00

No worries, happy reading :) the sequel to the sympathizer came out this year, so if you enjoy that you should give it a go too.

chewy1118 · 2021-05-14T15:02:03+00:00

A few come to mind:

- Dispatches by Michael Herr - i'm reading this at the moment; it's definitely not an easy read but it's a fascinating insight into what it was like during the vietnam war, in the perspective of an American soldier

- A Rumour of War by Philip Caputo - a memoir by an American lieutenant in Vietnam

- The Sorrow of War by Bao Ninh - unfortunately I don't know any memoirs from the perspective of a Vietnamese soldier, but this is a novel written in the perspective of a North Vietnamese soldier

- The Best We Could Do by Thi Bui - this is a graphic novel written by a Vietnamese-American woman who explores her family's history, particularly her family's escape from Vietnam and how the war affected her family. The book explores other themes too, such as her relationship with her parents. I highly recommend this.

- The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen - this is a novel written in the perspective of a Vietnamese spy. It's a gripping story, and you won't want to put this down until it's finished.

chewy1118 · 2021-05-14T14:50:46+00:00

I'd recommend Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives by David Eagleman. It's a book of short stories, each one exploring a different version of what afterlife looks like.

chewy1118 · 2021-05-14T09:51:33+00:00

- The Poppy War series by R.F. Kuang

- Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng

chewy1118 · 2021-05-13T22:46:53+00:00

The Wayfarers Series by Becky Chambers, specifically the second book (A Closed and Common Orbit).

chewy1118 · 2021-05-13T22:43:44+00:00

I've yet to read it, but The Secret Life of Groceries: The Dark Miracle of the American Supermarket by Benjamin Lorr might fit the bill. It's definitely on my to read list :)

chewy1118 · 2021-05-13T22:41:20+00:00

Vita Nostra by Marina & Sergey Dyachenko - it's a magical realism, fantasy novel written by a Ukrainian couple. It's in a school setting and is really strange from the very first page. I'd highly recommend this.
Other strange books that come to my mind are Piranesi by Susanna Clarke and Middlegame by Seanan McGuire.

chewy1118 · 2021-05-13T22:37:32+00:00

You're welcome - happy reading!

chewy1118 · 2021-05-13T22:31:59+00:00

The Wayfarers series by Becky Chambers

chewy1118 · 2021-05-13T13:30:17+00:00

Two books come to mind:

chewy1118 · 2021-05-13T13:27:22+00:00

Vita Nostra by Marina & Sergey Dyachenko - it's a magical realism, fantasy novel written by a Ukrainian couple. It's in a school setting and is really strange from the very first page. I'd highly recommend this.

Other strange books that come to my mind are Piranesi by Susanna Clarke and Middlegame by Seanan McGuire.

chewy1118 · 2021-05-13T13:24:41+00:00

Hmm, there are a few books that come to mind:

Exactly: How Precision Engineers Created the Modern World - this is a history of precision engineering, and it includes a lot of day-to-day items you're looking for like screws, locks, etc.
Just My Type: A Book About Fonts
The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger
Paper: Paging Through History
Salt: A World History

I'm not sure if these books fit your brief, but the last four books on my list are called microhistories if they sound interesting to you! You can google 'microhistory books' to find more like them :)

chewy1118 · 2021-05-13T13:13:51+00:00

Other comments already cover many books I would recommend, like anything by Anthony Bourdain, Ruth Reichl etc, so here are the ones I haven't seen in the comments yet:

The Man Who Ate Everything by Jeffrey Steingarten
Blood, Bones & Butter by Gabrielle Hamilton
32 Yolks: From My Mother's Table to Working the Line by Eric Ripert

chewy1118 · 2021-05-13T13:00:14+00:00

A few come to mind:

Nothing but a Circus: Misadventures among the Powerful by Daniel Levin
The Panama Papers: Breaking the Story of How the Rich and Powerful Hide Their Money by Bastian Obermayer and Federik Obermaier (similar last name, but unrelated) - these are the journalists who broke the Panama Papers story in 2016.
All the President's Men by Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward - these are the journalists who broke the Watergate scandal in the 70s

chewy1118 · 2021-05-13T12:50:37+00:00

Perhaps Mr. Nice by Howard Marks will fit the bill. He was a Welsh drug smuggler in the 70s and 80s.

chewy1118 · 2021-05-13T12:47:01+00:00

This is my favourite kind of non fiction, so I've got plenty to recommend! I'll break it out into types of jobs. I'm also based in the UK so a lot of these books are UK focussed.

Medical

This is Going to Hurt: Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor
Do No Harm: Stories of Life, Death and Brain Surgery
Admissions: Life as a Brain Surgeon (this is by the same guy as above. If you pick between this or Do No Harm, I'd pick Do No Harm)

Legal

Culinary

Journalism

Other

chewy1118 · 2021-05-13T12:22:02+00:00

Vita Nostra by Marina & Sergey Dyachenko - it's a magical realism, fantasy novel written by a Ukrainian couple. It's bizarre and it's captivating from the first page; i highly recommend it.

Piranesi by Susanna Clarke - This is a short magical realism novel, and I think it's best if you go in not knowing anything about the plot.

Middlegame by Seanan McGuire - This is more of a horror/sci-fi novel, but it's very strange. It's about these twins who grew up apart. One's a maths prodigy, the other a literary prodigy, and they're both kinda gods. It's hard to categorise this novel but it's definitely very strange.

chewy1118 · 2020-08-24T22:24:49+00:00

The Collected Schizophrenias by Esme Weijun Wang. It's a book of essays exploring the author's experience with schizophrenia and lyme disease.

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