That’s a good summertime track right there.
My Cooking Diary (via DF)
Ignoring for a second the spiffy version of a carousel and the lovely photos: look at those tomatoes and peppers! I bet those would be fantastic with some hash browns. Or on thick, toasted sourdough.
And now I’m hungry again.
Progress: 5 down, 15 to go
Which: Prince of Thieves, Chuck Hogan
Owing to the fact that I picked up the book after watching the trailer for The Town, Thieves reads quickly and like a movie to me. I let the casting director do that heavy lifting for me and between you and me: Jeremy-Renner-as-Jem in my head is terrifying.
I like that the book doesn’t ask for and the fellas don’t want your sympathy. And not in an adolescent, “no, you shut up!” kind of way. There’s just the story and the way Hogan tells it and either it works for you or it doesn’t. It worked for me.
p.s. Boston and I aren’t very good friends, so even though I Google Map’d the major locations for context (nerd!), my brain called up visuals from The Wire for Charlestown scenery. Weird.
Next batch of books!
- Prince of Thieves, Chuck Hogan (library)
- The Book Thief, Markus Zusak (Ky)
- The Hunger Games, Suzanne Collins (Tiff)
- To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee (mine)
After almost a month of not really being home, there’s lots waiting on the TiVo—along with the Netflix-delivered season 1 disc 1 of “Chuck” (uh, love it)—but I am totally sucked into Thieves, so that all gets to wait. Plus, Seattle decided it needed a gray, rainy day and not that I need an excuse to stay in and read, but…
Progress: 4 down, 16 to go
Which: The Red Pyramid, Rick Riordan
The size of Pyramid surprised me after the relatively short Percy Jackson installments, but Riordan fills that extra space well enough. Pyramid has a lot more going on, not least because of its two narrators (brother and sister), but it doesn’t drag and he keeps the sibling jokey-bickering to a minimum.
This? would be a fun movie. (Provided they keep Chris Columbus away from it. Yeah, I said it! but look: how can you have multiple Percy movies when you’ve deleted the Titans from the story?! Bah.)
OddFellows Cafe, Capitol Hill (full size +1)
Where are you as teammates as far as being able to put this behind you as far as Roethlisberger goes and move forward?
Y’know, Jason, I bet they’d be a lot further if people stop asking that question every interview… We? Get. it. Uncharted territory! No handbook for 4 QBs, 1 facing a 4-6 game suspension, blah blah blah.
Enough. It is such a lazy way to fill a minute of air time (or half an article); find a new well, please.
Saturday, U District (full size)
Saturday in Kirkland (full size)
Previously scattered between 2 bookcases, my unread books have their own shelf, now. (full size)
25 books: 11 borrowed from friends (Yumes, Tiff, Kim, and Ky) & the library; 1 re-read (To Kill a Mockingbird).
Americans take in large amounts of fructose, mainly in high fructose corn syrup, a mix of fructose and glucose that is used in soft drinks, bread and a range of other foods.
(via tiffehr)
“A range of other foods” is, perhaps, the most benign description of high-fructose corn syrup’s ubiquity ever. The Corn Growers Assn finger-wags moderation, but that’s nigh impossible when it’s very nearly literally in everything. On the upside: it’s not as tricky to avoid now as it was 4 years ago. Suck it, high-fructose corn syrup!
(Thank heavens for Mexico-bottled Coca-Cola.)
Progress: 3 down, 17 to go
Which: The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, Stieg Larsson
I’ve tried to sum up five times, now and I keep deleting it, so: it’s good! I liked it! (Also: the movie’s good, too.)
