For eating? my understanding is that their primary use is in the wedding ceremony (joke).
Although from the books they sound like oatmeal, more or less.
Book: Where's the doctor? Not back yet?
Zoe: (beat) We don't make him hurry for the little stuff. He'll be along.
Book: He could hurry... a little.
'Safe'
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."
Toddson - Apr 14, 2016 5:39:56 am PDT #23861 of 28289
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
-t - Apr 14, 2016 6:03:29 am PDT #23862 of 28289
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
At one point it's described as "native groats" but every other native Barrayaran plant seems to be toxic so I've been picturing buckwheat groats; i.e., kasha. Which I have a fondness for anyway.
Jessica - Apr 14, 2016 8:54:33 am PDT #23863 of 28289
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
For eating? my understanding is that their primary use is in the wedding ceremony (joke).
No, they eat them for breakfast too.
Frankenbuddha - Apr 19, 2016 7:26:18 am PDT #23864 of 28289
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
I finished I Chaos Choreography (the latest inCytpid novel) and enjoyed it much like I did the others. It was good to have Verity back, but I'm hoping at some point there's a novel for the third sibling. She's mostly been enigmatic and bratty up to now, so I'd love to find out there's more going on there.
I did find the ending abrupt. Like really, REALLY abrupt, especially with Verity basically declaring war on the Covenant on live television, but it certainly kept me entertained.
Steph L. - Apr 19, 2016 7:27:47 am PDT #23865 of 28289
I look more rad than Lutheranism
I did find the ending abrupt. Like really, REALLY abrupt
I did, too, but otherwise I loved it.
meara - Apr 19, 2016 8:15:48 am PDT #23866 of 28289
I also loved because sytycd is my jam. Even faux-sytycd
Toddson - Apr 19, 2016 11:02:07 am PDT #23867 of 28289
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
I enjoyed it as well. And the ending did strike me as ... kind of jarring. But I would like very much to read a book from Antimony's viewpoint; we've had three of Verity's and two from the brother (whose name is evading me at the moment), so it's definitely time to hear from the third.
Gris - Apr 19, 2016 12:12:15 pm PDT #23868 of 28289
Hey. New board.
I recently read on Seanan's blog something about her finishing the SECOND book from Antimony's point of view. So that seems to imply the first book from her point of view must be coming soon.
Gris - Apr 19, 2016 12:13:32 pm PDT #23869 of 28289
Hey. New board.
Also, really slams in the point about how ridiculously prolific a writer she is. Back before she was published and I was lucky enough to beta one of her books (still not published dammit), she sent me a chapter a day, finishing the whole novel in 16 days I think. It was nuts.
Steph L. - Apr 19, 2016 12:14:52 pm PDT #23870 of 28289
I look more rad than Lutheranism
I just got a notice from the library that her Every Heart a Doorway is waiting for me. Yay!