First off, I have this barbecue thing this coming Saturday and it's semi-potluck. Host is providing meats, we provide side dishes and desserts. I decided to bring a dessert. So, I was looking through the various recipe books I have and I cannot decide what to make, so I shall leave it to you, my lovely flist.
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Also, I found out yesterday that I apparently have a prejudice against books about authors. Well, not necessarily
about authors, but books where the protagonist is an author. We had some time to kill between dinner & the movie yesterday, so we headed over to Barnes & Noble to browse for a bit. I headed over to the mystery section (my preferred genre of novel) and it seemed like every other book I picked up was "Mystery writer Sue Smith is on vacation when random mysterious thing happens. Can she solve the crime before it's too late?". And it was annoying me. I don't know why. Maybe because it seems so egotistical/narcissistic? The author putting themselves in their own book, or something? I dunno. But, when I read mystery novels, I want detectives and policemen and all that good stuff. Not some dumb writer. Maybe it's because in books like that the people who should actually be investigating the crime are dumbed downed/trivialized so the writer can be the hero. And I hate when that happens. So, I ended up getting my first ever Sci Fi novel! I know, right? For the scifi geek I am, I don't read much of it. It's called
The Blade Itself by Joe Abercrombie. It sounded interesting. More like an action/adventure story that happens to have some scifi elements to it, than full on scifi. I hope it's good. It's pretty long...
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