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omnia_mutantur82. Beauty and the Beast and Other Classic French Fairy Tales translated and with an introduction by Jack Zipes. I've been picking this up and putting it down for months now, chipping away at it. Dense, but kind of fantastic.
83. All of an Instant by Richard Garfinkle. I mean, who in my position wouldn't adore a book about space travel using the logical conclusion of the ancient greek understanding of physics? This, however, wasn't quite so much fun. The premise was pretty neat, and was probably one of the most appropriately complex dealings with time travel i've read, but the complexity was given considerably more stage time than the plot or the characters or the writing.
84. Chocolat by Joanne Harris. and i've read all of her other stuff. i'm letting myself read a bunch of food books again. we went to the library, and i got almost entirely food books. I like this author. I like how she treats food, and how she treats people. I don't expect the movie to be anything like the book and this felt a little too much like trying for a french version of Like Water for Chocolate, but it was adorable.
85. How to cook a tart by Nina Killham. Like seriously, sparklingly over-the-top trashy. it's a murder mystery with an overweight cookbook author and her affair-having husband and her anoxeric daughter. It's like writing was coated in butter. It made me giggle. A lot.
86. Candyfreak by Steve Almond. The topic is the pop-history/sociology/economics of candy bars. The writing is hysterical. "Indeed, if one were to set Jujubes beside pencil erasers in a blind taste test, it would be tough to make a distinction, except that pencil erasers have more natural fruit flavor."
83. All of an Instant by Richard Garfinkle. I mean, who in my position wouldn't adore a book about space travel using the logical conclusion of the ancient greek understanding of physics? This, however, wasn't quite so much fun. The premise was pretty neat, and was probably one of the most appropriately complex dealings with time travel i've read, but the complexity was given considerably more stage time than the plot or the characters or the writing.
84. Chocolat by Joanne Harris. and i've read all of her other stuff. i'm letting myself read a bunch of food books again. we went to the library, and i got almost entirely food books. I like this author. I like how she treats food, and how she treats people. I don't expect the movie to be anything like the book and this felt a little too much like trying for a french version of Like Water for Chocolate, but it was adorable.
85. How to cook a tart by Nina Killham. Like seriously, sparklingly over-the-top trashy. it's a murder mystery with an overweight cookbook author and her affair-having husband and her anoxeric daughter. It's like writing was coated in butter. It made me giggle. A lot.
86. Candyfreak by Steve Almond. The topic is the pop-history/sociology/economics of candy bars. The writing is hysterical. "Indeed, if one were to set Jujubes beside pencil erasers in a blind taste test, it would be tough to make a distinction, except that pencil erasers have more natural fruit flavor."
