'Heart Of Gold'
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."
Honestly, though, he's a nerd and he doesn't know this stuff? Amazing.
He addresses this directly noting that he purposefully avoided getting into High Fantasy because he was already gay and ubergeeky and getting bullied incessantly, and fantasy didn't jibe with his few saving social connections in punk rock and being a teacher's pet. Also it was frowned on with his conservative Christian upbringing. He wasn't really allowed to read much or see much growing up.
He wasn't really allowed to read much or see much growing up.
Ah, I see. And he's making up for lost time. I think I'll waste my afternoon reading his coverage of The Hobbit.
I really kind of want to set Mark of Mark Reads/Watches up with the StuntHusband, but StuntHusband is incapable of keeping his mouth shut about spoilers.
I was thinking of making tourtiere for Christmas eve! Jesse, do you have a family recipe? Dani told me about it.
I just finished reading "The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie" by Alan Bradley, and I thought it was really great, and something a lot of people here would enjoy. Classic sort of English country mystery, except that the sleuth is an 11-year-old girl. And there's stamp collecting and chemistry and all sorts of other stuff.
Yeah, we just cook up ground pork with onion and a potato (cut up, mash as you go), spice it up with cinnamon, clove, salt and pepper, and throw it in a pie crust. I can give you more specific info if you want, but the written-down family recipe is total BS (as they are) so you may as well google.
"The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie" by Alan Bradley
I liked it too, but not as much as my mother, who leans more to the cozy and YA sides of things, so yeah.
I loved it muchly, though I didn't like the sequel quite as much.
"The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie" by Alan Bradley
I liked the first one, but thought that Flavia was a just a bit too much for me and I wasn't sure I would continue. I made it about 10 pages into the second one and put it down without looking back (which for me is saying a lot).
Yeah, I'm not sure I'll read the sequels. I can see the character becoming really annoying if overdone.