No, it's shiny! I like to meet new people. They've all got stories...

Kaylee ,'Serenity'


Natter 48 Contiguous States of Denial  

Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.


sarameg - Jan 01, 2007 5:35:25 pm PST #9210 of 10007

Cash, thank you! I'd forgotten how I loved that book. (What can I say, I spent the time not reading inappropriate stuff on a serious pioneer and native kick. I viscerally remember driving from the Grand Canyon, window open, wind blowing my braids, imagining myself a cliff dweller. Which is funny, and yet... I still get chills visiting those places, wondering. And now being grateful for my internet and women's lib!)


brenda m - Jan 01, 2007 5:36:49 pm PST #9211 of 10007
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there

Huh. I had chicken marsala the other day and I don't remember it being noticably sweet. Is it normally?


Betsy HP - Jan 01, 2007 5:37:19 pm PST #9212 of 10007
If I only had a brain...

Betsy, do we need equipment for that?

I'm going with the massed power of bitterness, cynicism, and despair.


Betsy HP - Jan 01, 2007 5:38:45 pm PST #9213 of 10007
If I only had a brain...

There exists sweet marsala and dry marsala. You have to pick your marsala carefully.


Liese S. - Jan 01, 2007 5:39:24 pm PST #9214 of 10007
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."

If you could just beam the bitterness, cynicism, and despair, I think that should do the trick nicely. I'm happy to beam any minimal sinus headaches I should happen to get, if it's any help. You know, to the nation.

Also, I don't think of chicken marsala as sweet, but I love, love it.


Jesse - Jan 01, 2007 5:40:40 pm PST #9215 of 10007
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

Goddamn, I'm going to have to order it again, aren't I?


§ ita § - Jan 01, 2007 5:42:31 pm PST #9216 of 10007
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Jennifer Crusie wins again.


Kat - Jan 01, 2007 5:45:16 pm PST #9217 of 10007
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo

Hey Kat, I have a query you may or may not be able to answer. What might be a good book for an 11 year old girl?

Hmmm... There's a series of mysteries with a narrator named Sammy Keyes who is this 7th grader living illegally with her grandmother in a retirement apartment setting. I love those books and kids do too. She's fun. She's spunky. She is a regular kid.

Sammy Keyes.

Esperanza Rising, by Pam Munoz Ryan is this great story about a girl who was wealthy in Mexico, but her dad dies and suddenly her family is forced to immigrate to California. Sad but beautiful with a not-sad ending.

Everything on a Waffle is good fun.


§ ita § - Jan 01, 2007 5:46:37 pm PST #9218 of 10007
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

I use 1000 mg of calcium combined with 500 mg of magnesium plus niacinimide (no flushing) and feverfew. I found them recommended in a book called "The Vitamin Bible" when I was having daily headaches and had no health insurance.

Were you having migraines? I'm not asking snottily--I just know the pathologies can vary, so I wanted the context.


Laga - Jan 01, 2007 5:50:22 pm PST #9219 of 10007
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.

When I was 11 I was devouring Marguerite Henry books.