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Literally on a whim. I had a spare Audible credit. Brandon Sanderson is a name I saw a lot but had never read. Warbreaker was in my recommendations. Checked to make sure it was a stand alone novel. Bought it, Amazon proceeds to take lots more of my money, it was a good sell on their part.
Not op but have used an IP to cook pasta. I could absolutely see the appeal.
Ultimately I use the stove top but that's for 2 main reasons:
1 Being UK based, I have electric kettles and enough power in the sockets to drive them. Combined with a gas stove that means quick meals are quicker.
2 The IP will fully cook the pasta and easily overcook it, I prefer pasta underdone if anything.
Stove top just grants more flexibility for doneness for various thicknesses of pasta at the cost of another pan.
So if 1&2 don't apply to you give it a shot.
That's a shame. Their pressure cooker and air frier are pretty good £/performance. I'm usually using one or the other to make a main/side. I even ferment doughs and yogurts in the IP.
I've not found a glass jug comparable to the .5L Pyrex measuring jug. Maybe its a psychological thing, but I'm happy to abuse pyrex in a way I won't other glass products. The shallow-wide 1L jugs seem to have pouring issues no matter who makes them.
In the twilight years I mostly just used Reddit as an information aggregate.
I'm primarily wanting a place where I can read information for both niche and general topics, as well as read the dissent to that information in the same space.
Maybe I become more engaged in the community. But going from:
Private forums > old reddit > new reddit
Each step felt like I knew and was known by fewer people. All while knowing less about the people I did recognise. I spent a lot of time in "off topic" sections of the private forums, commented and generated a fair amount on old Reddit, and mostly lurked on new Reddit.
I think the whole situation has me cynical about the idea of "internet community", and maybe that's something I need to work on.
Johnathan Strange and Mr Norrell. After that book I gave myself permission to DNF though, so it was a maturing experience for me. I mostly wanted to know what happened to Stephen and that's what drove me, along with the "No mere book shall defeat me" attitude.
I really enjoyed all of the Fae short stories actually. I'm not really a horror fan, but I found Fae, and mortals interaction with it, particularly gripping and memorable. I never put the book down when I was in Fae, trapping me along with the victims, perhaps that's why I wanted Stephen to just be ok.
It was just everything else in the book I couldn't enjoy. The titular characters I found uninteresting. The setting, fae excluded, I was apathetic about. The structure, the footnotes, dear god the footnotes.
But the Fae stuff? I'll take 10 more of them in an anthology please.