![]() ![]() Luscious, richly infused with Slatter’s gift for creating place this is a world that invites travel along all of its dark roads and secret paths. ‘All the Murmuring Bones is fairy-tale gothic at its finest and then some. Don’t miss it!'Ĭhristopher Golden, New York Times bestselling author of Ararat and Red Hands ![]() All the Murmuring Bones is Slatter at her darkest-and finest. ‘Harrowing and beautiful, this is the grim, fairy-tale gothic you’ve been waiting for. Lush and chilling, eerie and exquisite, brutal and elegant… I defy anyone to stop turning pages until they’ve come to the end.’ Ellen Kushner, author of The Privilege of the Sword Tolkien, Slatter’s taken her personal invented mythos and crafted a world around it that is at once familiar and deeply strange. A magical read!’Īlison Littlewood, author of A Cold SeasonĪ beautiful gothic monstrosity (monstrosity being a good thing), one of those rare books you don’t just want to read but want to live inside of.’ Her work is as beautiful and dangerous as the best fairy tales and All the Murmuring Bones is entirely enchanting. ![]()
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![]() ![]() The chemistry of pie crust is simple: keep all of your ingredients super cold, and process as little as possible. Im not a fan of partially hydrogenated oils, though, so I went with an all-butter crust. Butter for the flakiness and shortening for smoothness? Food chemistry again. I somehow remember from high school home economics that the best pie crust has a blend of both butter and shortening. It would probably help me discover, for instance, why my rice always sticks to the bottom of the pan.Īnyway, back to that salted caramel pie. ![]() ![]() Years ago, I was fascinated by the cookbook CookWise by Shirley Corriher. Flavia herself might enjoy cooking, as there is a lot of chemistry involved. ![]() I will make more of an effort to let him cook with me, and so decided to make this pie completely from scratch with his assistance. After an afternoon of binge-watching the Kids Baking Championship on the Food Network with my four-year-old son, hes been asking to have time alone in the kitchen to bake for us. Pastry chef I am not, so I typically rely on Pillsbury to make my pie crust for me. The same salted caramel is drizzled on top with a sprinkling of toffee bits, making the overall flavor something akin to butterbeer, for my fellow Harry Potter fans. The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie/Flavia DeLuce video trailerīecause of the unique title, I decided to put a twist on a classic custard pie recipe and coat the bottom of the crust with salted caramel. ![]() ![]() ![]() Lloyd Webber’s past plays left one cheering a design (“Cats”) or a song (“Oh What a Circus,” the kickoff to what remains Lloyd Webber’s best score, “Evita”) or sometimes both at once: There’s hardly a musical moment more dramatic than Norma Desmond’s return to the studio late in “Sunset Boulevard.”īut as directed by Gale Edwards and choreographed (lamentably) by Anthony van Laast, “Whistle’s” most notable bequest may be the kind of cringe-making kids’ anthem (“When Children Rule the World”) that telethon promoters now and forever will love. ![]() For all the changes composer Andrew Lloyd Webber has wrought in the world of the musical, “Whistle” occupies a retrograde niche that is as particular - and peculiar - as the hopeless American accents of the mostly (and ill-advisedly) British cast. ![]() ![]() If you've overlooked it also, check it out. ![]() " (italics mine) #metooThis is a classic I overlooked. It was spoken not only to her husband, but to thousands of men like him. It had to be uttered once in a life, to adjust the lopsidedness of the world. She neither forgave him for his behaviour nor wished to forgive him. Now that she had time to think over her own tragedy, she was unrepentant. " Later, Margaret thinks about her outburst, reflecting, "No message came from Henry perhaps he expected her to apologize. Do you see the connection? Stupid, hypocritical, cruel. My sister has had a lover-you drive her from the house. For instance:"You shall see the connection if it kills you, Henry! You have had a mistress-I forgave you. I also liked that while it was published over 100 years ago and reflected the times (particularly attitudes toward women), there were scenes that could have happened today. And it came full circle, which always satisfies me in stories. ![]() Forster definitely had a gift with the English language. I was out of books to read and I found it on my youngest daughter's shelf, leftover from her high school days. ![]() Published in 1910, but I'd never read it. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Forster explains the machine by saying “there were buttons and switches everywhere-buttons to call for food for music, for clothing. She relies on the machine for just about anything including sleeping, eating, learning, and even thinking. The main character in the story, Vashti, is extremely dependent on the machine. “The Machine Stops” argues that eventually, the advancement of technology is in fact going to take over, which will ultimately result in complete dehumanization and individuals will rely on technology solely in order to complete any sort of task. Forster’s “The Machine Stops,” technology has literally taken over the world. We see a change and advancement in society very frequently, which allows individuals to take complete advantage of technology. In today’s society, technology is continuing to advance and people are discovering new ways to use technology at its fullest. ![]() |