Cry to Heaven is also really well researched.

Very true. This is one of the many reasons why I mention it in class. I need to dig up another copy of it as both of the ones I had seem to have disappeared.

I think Rice was actually a very skilled and evocative writer early on, before the purple prose gobbled her up and ran away.

A great analysis.

Now we are off to Habesha food.

This knitting is hopefully on the right track - today I have knit up an inch, realized an error, pulled out 4 inches, and knit up an inch and a half again.

was surprised going from Interview (which was very densely written, languid and sensual) to Lestat (which flies along like any old airport read).

Yes, this. It was hard to grasp they were the same writer.

Oh! I just remembered I forgot to thank you for your Muppet links and talk: it reminded me to get a healthy doze of Muppet seasons before university starts.

You see, for me, The Muppets is the ideal society: a bunch of outcast weirdos that even if they don't get along, they'll do anything to help each other in the end of the day, and put a show every night.

In my world, that's kind of a miracle.

It gives me hope.

Cry to heaven was one of those books that I found really interesting, bu tI found my self skipping the sex scenes -- as in 'oh no not another".

Umm, what?

Kat! Apple Pan?

Sure!! Around 3:00 PM work for you?

YAY! Kat P will be in the area!

msbelle, the Twilight books are so much worse. But so much more fun to mock.

Umm, what?

Huh. So far I haven't seen anything about this in US media.

ION, for Halloween, a three-headed Chihuahua: [link]

I like how one of the extra heads has its mouth closed, while the other extra head is open, revealing huge pointy canines.

Yikes, Shir. I hope that's not true, for any number of reasons.

It's on every channel and news site here. In red, big letters.

Crossing fingers the Syrians just... got confused?