wrapped up in books

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there are six red roses sitting on my counter and leftovers from a yummy dinner last night sitting in my fridge. (stars of said dinner included cornmeal-fried oysters with apple-bacon salsa and a goat cheese fondue; littleneck clams with mixed greens, bacon, and parm; an awesome salad with pecans and dried cherries; beef tenderloin in an orange bearnaise sauce; "duck duck goose," a dish that had duck confit, seared duck foie gras, and goose breast. desserts were a chocolate-banana bread pudding and this amazing clementine-basil sorbet that i've determined i *must* duplicate. coincidentally, i have a box of clemmies and several of my friends have ice-cream-makers. hee. :D )

six months. love you. :*

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so when hyounpark and i wander into bookstores (which generally means that all bets are off re any other plans we might have had for the evening), he'll head off to wander around, and unless i'm looking for something specific, my parting words to him are: "scifi/fantasy, if not that YA, if not that cookbooks, if not that periodicals."

i'm feeling a bit predictable. ;)

so, dear friends, what is the most awesome book you've read this year? what's the best book you've read that would fall into one of the above categories, and then what's the best book you've read that breaks free from them?

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Even this late it happens:
the coming of love, the coming of light.
You wake and the candles are lit as if by themselves,
stars gather, dreams pour into your pillows,
sending up warm bouquets of air.
Even this late the bones of the body shine
and tomorrow's dust flares into breath.

- Mark Strand, The Coming of Light

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okay, so there are actually quite a few movies that i need to see before they leave theatres. these include rent, narnia, brokeback mountain, and memoirs of a geisha (which i have two passes for). (people have warned me to stay far, far away from aeon flux, which is sad because that was one of the shows we were always sneaking out to the common room in high school to see.)

so, locals - possibly thinking about seeing one or two of these on christmas day. anyone interested?

edit: also.

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6/29/23: oh, late 2002 self. I wish you could see just a *little* further down the road. if not to here, at least to fall 2003, but. my heart aches for all that you're going through, but it's what leads you to here, and things do get better. different, yes, but better.

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[rhianona.livejournal.com]

So it didn't come out this year, but the most awesome book I read was The Gunslinger by Stephen King.

Of this year, prolly The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini. I am still waiting for the library to get me The Historian. I did enjoy Lauren Bacall's updated bio, mostly because I'm in love with classic movies and she was married to one of my favorite movie stars of all time - Bogie.

YA: Trickster's Queen by Tamara Pierce
Cooking: Brunch from Five Points Restaurant (If any of you come to NY, go here, b/c the drinks are out of this world. The food is good as well.)
Romance (b/c well, that's what I read a lot of): hard decision. I didn't love anything that came out this year - enjoyed yes, but loved? Maybe Tiger Eye by Marjorie Liu.
Scifi/Fantasy: Well, the latest LKH - Stroke of Midnight. Also, again, this wasn't a new release, but The Years of Rice and Salt by Kim Stanley Robinson