![]() ![]() ![]() Did I mention robots also have a part to play here? And an alpaca? And a food replacement called "Slurry"? And The Lois Club, which is actually a real thing? When Beoreg gives some of his sourdough starter to Lois, it remakes her life, robots and, for one yeasty moment, a corner of San Francisco. Proprioception is how we perceive what our limbs are doing and how they are oriented. Their spicy soup and sourdough quickly become Lois' main sustenance, her one oasis of calm and comfort in a stressful life at General Dexterity, where she works as a computer coder in the area of robot proprioception (which Plummer may be forgiven for repeatedly mispronouncing). ![]() ![]() Plummer creates deceptively familiar accents for the brothers, and the audiobook producers enhance the effect by creating dreamlike Mazg hold music that plays every time Lois Clary calls the brothers' restaurant for takeout. You know the Mazg, right? Those people who live in anonymous communities all over the world, generally on second floors? They are apt to relocate frequently, and their legends, lives and traditions involve yeast, food and music. Critical to the plot are two Mazg brothers, Beoreg and Chaiman. Therese Plummer, veteran narrator of more than 300 audiobooks, brings a delightfully loopy creativity to the delightfully loopy novel "Sourdough," a story built around a mysterious sourdough starter. "Sourdough" by Robin Sloan, narrated by Therese Plummer, Macmillan, 6:47 ![]()
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