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So What Are you Reading?: Generations
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I really need to re-read that one of these years.
I will admit that, having read the first chapter just before breakfast this morning, I did have grits (but not ham). The grits were not day-glo orange.
Being Canadian, I have never in my life had grits. I think I saw some once at a Denny's, though.
I'm taking another short break from War of the Prophets and Q-Zone to read the Time Magazine special about The Muppets. It's mostly reprinting (well not printing since I borrowed the digital version from Libby, but I'm not sure how else to say it) old articles from the 1970s - 2020s, but since I've never read any of them it's all new to me. There are two or three new articles so it's not all old content.
Never had them either, and I probably shouldn't admit this, but it's only within the last five years or so that I even learned what they actually are. The reality doesn't seem anywhere near as disgusting as I had imagined them in my mind based on the name alone.
I knew damn well what they were, the first time I encountered them on my breakfast plate, vacationing in New Orleans (a small restaurant in the Quarter): ground corn (typically hominy corn, i.e., corn that's been nixtamalized in lye, to make the niacin bioavailable to those of us who don't have four stomachs), that's been boiled, served as a hot cereal. My first encounter didn't go well: I treated it like wheat farina, adding sugar; when I talked about it with a neighbor who grew up in North Carolina, who'd known me since I was three, she recommended butter instead. I followed her advice the next time I was vacationing in the historic South, and they were indeed much better that way.
Incidentally, masa, the raw material for corn tortillas, is made from corn that's been nixtamalized in lime (calcium hydroxide, not the green citrus fruit). So it's first cousin to grits.
Incidentally, masa, the raw material for corn tortillas, is made from corn that's been nixtamalized in lime (calcium hydroxide, not the green citrus fruit). So it's first cousin to grits.
I don't think I've ever had grits, which is odd, since my mother and her family were from the South (specifically Virginia).
My dad worked at a Bob Evans in college and developed a taste for grits there. He would often cook grits and scrambled eggs for breakfast (about the only thing he could cook); he liked his grits with a bit of beef bouillon mixed in. (I think this is probably sacrilege for southerners.)
Now a few chapters into How Much . . . : Kirk and Kaden are both preparing to face the people of Dereidi, the entire crew of the Jefferson Randolph Smith made it to the surface in an escape pod, and found a creek to bathe in, having been drenched in gallons of n'gan-spiced milkshake (the result of Captain Tofimov unwisely expressing a desire for a "stiff drink" just before pod-launch), and Flyter and Estervy are preparing to implement "Plan C."
But don't overlook her own mystery series set in New Orleans and featuring African American doctor Benjamin January.
I haven't cried while reading a novel in a while, but The Correspondent by Virginia Evans did it to me. Excellent book, esp for those who still write letters. I also read Clare Keegan's Small Things Like These. Another sad one but excellent. Also finished a second reading of Crossroad by Barbara Hambly.
I am currently being made to read Lord of the Flies for school. 
I am currently being made to read Lord of the Flies for school.
I never read that book, how is it so far?
It's actually really good in my opinion!
There's a coffee table book that was published shortly after his death called 'Jim Henson - The Works' that covers his beginning with 'Sam and Friends' up until the projects he had planned shortly before his untimely passing. I highly recommend it, if you want to get into the nuts and bolts of Muppetry.
Hello fellow readers, it's been a while since I've visited. I keep visiting and wishing I had joined the conversation several days before I end up seeing it!
Good luck to hbquikcomjamesl with How Much for Just the Planet, which I personally found an okay read, a curious experiment in prose fiction (in my experience). It's a shame it probably gets compared to The Final Reflection a lot.
It's neat to see Robert E. Howard's work being discussed again. I read one of his non-Conan stories as part of a Halloween season reading list. I was going read one of Lovecraft's stories, and a Clark Ashton Smith story, however I didn't want to overdo it with reading horror stories. I got a chance to try out the first of Seabury Quinn's Jules de Grandin stories, to try another Weird Tales author. I'm unsure of it, but all the Weird Tales authors take me three or four stories before finding the right one that I appreciate and get me all in.
I was saving Star Trek The Lost Years for November, but after reading some excerpts from previous books that are referenced in it, I decided not to wait and just get started. I've been looking forward to reading The Lost Years for ages, excited to see how it unfolds.
Good luck to hbquikcomjamesl with How Much for Just the Planet, which I personally found an okay read, a curious experiment in prose fiction (in my experience). It's a shame it probably gets compared to The Final Reflection a lot.
It's neat to see Robert E. Howard's work being discussed again. I read one of his non-Conan stories as part of a Halloween season reading list. I was going read one of Lovecraft's stories, and a Clark Ashton Smith story, however I didn't want to overdo it with reading horror stories. I got a chance to try out the first of Seabury Quinn's Jules de Grandin stories, to try another Weird Tales author. I'm unsure of it, but all the Weird Tales authors take me three or four stories before finding the right one that I appreciate and get me all in.
I was saving Star Trek The Lost Years for November, but after reading some excerpts from previous books that are referenced in it, I decided not to wait and just get started. I've been looking forward to reading The Lost Years for ages, excited to see how it unfolds.
I feel your pain.I am currently being made to read Lord of the Flies for school.
Meanwhile, in How Much. . ., I've gotten past Janeka's production number. Not yet to the point where she pretends to drain the life force out of a minion who displeased her, but that'll happen soon enough.
The only downside is the editorial meddling: Ford wrote the songs to existing tunes, but not all of them are as obvious as "Falling Apart Again." And he wasn't allowed to tell us what tunes.
I haven't hear of that, but I have read Of Muppets & Men.
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