A story about "Chocolate Cheesecake" — 14 weeks ago
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Next time I am going to have to take a photo of this before I eat it. Mmmm.
Items FlyGirl consumed in…
August, 2008
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Monday 11
Started consuming…Go Tell It on the Mountain — 273 people
Worth consuming!Finished consuming…Light in August — 345 people
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Wednesday 13
Worth consuming!Finished consuming…The Greek Gods Greek Yogurt, Pomegranate — 1 person
Worth consuming!Finished consuming…White Noise (Contemporary American Fiction) — 516 people
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Thursday 14
Started consuming…TENDER IS THE NIGHT — 229 people
Worth consuming!Finished consuming…The Scarlet Pimpernel (Modern Library Classics) — 8 people
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Friday 15
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Sunday 17
Finished consuming…Napoleon Dynamite - Like, the Best Special Edition Ever! — 288 people
Finished consuming…Big Kahuna — 93 people
Worth consuming!Finished consuming…Revolver — 21 people
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Wednesday 20
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Friday 22
Worth consuming!Finished consuming…A Tale of Two Cities (A Washington Square Press Book) — 9 people
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Saturday 23
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Sunday 24
Worth consuming!Finished consuming…Chocolate Cheesecake — 1 person
Worth consuming!Finished consuming…Wired — 1 person
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Entries about these items
A story about "Wired: The Short Life & Fast Times Of John Belushi" — 14 weeks ago
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What a sad loss to a talented individual. And what a strange and messed-up man he truly was.
A story about "A Tale of Two Cities (A Washington Square Press Book)" — 14 weeks ago
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I read this many years ago, but all I remembered of it was the first and last paragraphs. “It was the best of times; it was the worst of times … It is a far, far better thing I do than I have ever done before. It is a far, far better rest I go to than I have ever known.”
An interesting sidenote: these are among the most famous sentences in English yet note that they are written using passive verb forms. Just an observation.
I found this book took longer to finish than the other—and longer—books I have read by Dickens. I can’t say why. It was just harder to read, perhaps because it was more horrifying or perhaps because it was more tedious. I don’t know. But the book is a good argument for:
1) Doing unto others as you would have them do unto you, and
2) Learning how to forgive and not hang onto grudges.
Not that the French aristocracy didn’t deserve a lot of what they got in the French revolution, but this book shows how many people got swept up in the purge that didn’t contribute to the ills of the lower classes at all.
A story about "The Greek Gods Greek Yogurt, Fig" — 14 weeks ago
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I love this yogurt; it is my favorite.
A story about "Water for Elephants" — 17 weeks ago
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I keep gravitating to books set in old-folks homes: first Choke and now this one. And I watched The Trouble With Angels the other night where, after a bittersweet evening entertaining in an old-folks home, Hayley Mills tells her Mother Superior she hopes she dies young and very rich. I’m sure this book is about more than warehousing the elderly, just as Choke was about more, but at the moment, I feel a little haunted. I think it is too late for me to follow the “Die young” advice, but maybe I can find a way still to be rich before I get carted off to one of these places. Otherwise, if these two books are any indication, life quickly spirals into misery after that.
A story about "Water for Elephants" — 17 weeks ago
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Fortunately, this book is about much more than warehousing the old. If anything, this book is about a man, who though warehoused, insists on being so much more than a forgettable person and insists on breaking out of the warehouse back into the life he craves.
I really enjoyed this book. It is sad and funny and the characters—even the disturbing and venal ones—are wonderfully crafted and individual. Great texture of the 1930s and life in the circus.
