I’ve recently finished reading the cozy fantasy novel Can’t Spell Treason Without Tea. While the weather was too hot to feel warmed by it, I nevertheless enjoyed it.

I love me a story with

Characters who talk through problems. In fact, my least favourite narrative tropes are where the problems are created by two people, ostensibly who care for eachother, but cannot have even the simplest lowest-level honest conversation. See also “Could Have Avoided This!” Plot and Poor Communication Kills.
Community Building, and community raising; the cynical part of me feels like this might be the most fantastical part of the book, but how I love it.

and of course, the requisite easy entrepreneurship.

It’s not a perfect book, but was a good distraction, and I’ve put the next on my borrowing queue at the library already.