Cryptonomicon has an entire chapter devoted to Cap'n Crunch.
If only that were food.
Early: You folks are all insane. Simon: Well, my sister's a ship. We had a complicated childhood.
'Objects In Space'
Literary Buffistas 3: Don't Parse the Blurb, Dear.
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
megan walker - Feb 07, 2011 5:06:17 am PST #13906 of 28282
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
sumi - Feb 07, 2011 6:30:01 am PST #13907 of 28282
Art Crawl!!!
Random House tweeted the sad news that author Brian Jacques has died.
Scrappy - Feb 07, 2011 7:26:04 am PST #13908 of 28282
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
it would be perfect for our "Books and the Bookish" salon
One of my favorite novels about books is Parnassus on Wheels by Christopher Morley. [link] Utterly charming with a 39-year-old heroine who is smart, brave, determined and funny. It's actually one of my favorite books ever.
Aims - Feb 08, 2011 2:35:34 pm PST #13909 of 28282
Shit's all sorts of different now.
I just read Knuffle Bunny Free to Em for the first time.
Not on, Aimee, sobbing as you read to your child. Not on.
Hayden - Feb 08, 2011 4:32:03 pm PST #13910 of 28282
aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."
Oh jeez, Aimee, that one could make Lee Marvin bawl.
Jessica - Feb 09, 2011 4:20:52 am PST #13911 of 28282
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Oh Aims, I'm sorry - if I'd known I would have warned you!
(Seriously, anyone else with appropriately aged children for this book - you will need at LEAST three practice reads in order to get through it without bawling. Take the book with you into the bathroom and read it out loud in front of the mirror. You'll thank me later.)
Aims - Feb 09, 2011 4:28:25 am PST #13912 of 28282
Shit's all sorts of different now.
The letter to Trixie at the end? BROKEN AIMEE.
But, oh so very good.
ChiKat - Feb 09, 2011 5:12:20 am PST #13913 of 28282
That man was going to shank me. Over an omelette. Two eggs and a slice of government cheese. Is that what my life is worth?
Some friends of mine just told me about Knuffle Bunny a couple of weeks ago. Just their re-telling of it made me cry!
Kat - Feb 09, 2011 7:35:18 am PST #13914 of 28282
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
Megan, I had another thought about a food piece of writing: James Joyce's The Dead.
§ ita § - Feb 09, 2011 7:39:03 am PST #13915 of 28282
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
There's actually a lot of food porn in the Narnia Chronicles
Enid Blyton would get me cross-eyed about food I couldn't have, especially the tuck boxes in the boarding school books. And LotR is about a lot of things, but those hobbits sure did like feeding.