![]() When the cake is finally done, Xiaolong magics it out of the oven – so none of you will get burnt! – and she gives you a slice. When you offer to help her, she magics you an apron – just so you won’t get your clothes all dirty! You follow her instructions – you sift the flour, you add the water, you crack the eggs over, and she even lets you add the colouring too!Īfter the cake is done, you wait next to the oven, both you and Xiaolong giddy and excited for the cake to be finished. “I just read this amazing book, which included a recipe! Isn’t that amazing? So I decided to bake this cake for you so we had afternoon tea while we talked about it, but it’s taking a big longer than I thought.” When you call out to her, she turns around holding a bowl in one hand and whisking vigorously with her other. ![]() ![]() This time when you visit the Pond, the air smells… sweet? You follow your nose, and find Xiaolong by an… an oven? (You’re sure it wasn’t there before!) ![]()
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![]() ![]() The most danger she faces now, as a gardener’s daughter, is the annoying fox who stalks the royal gardens and won’t leave her alone.Īs a new queen is crowned, however, things long hidden in the woods descend on the kingdom itself. Now Cerys carries a small bit of the curse-the magic-in her blood, a reminder of the day she lost everything. Cerys knows this all too well: when she was young, she barely escaped as the woods killed her friends and her mother. But as Aloriya prospered, the woods grew dark, cursed, and forbidden. It has been this way for hundreds of years, since the first king made a bargain with the Lady who ruled the forest that borders the kingdom. Here there are no droughts, disease, or famine, and peace is everlasting. ![]() ![]() ![]() But a sudden Tranavian attack on the monastery sends Nadya’s destiny spilling out into the air. Nadya, a Kalyazi cleric who can commune with an entire pantheon of gods, is training in secrecy in the holy mountains by priests who sought to wield the power that sheltered inside her into the one thing that could save Kalyazin from sinking to its knees. Your most anticipated book of the year doesn’t live up to your expectations and you have to cancel your plans for the day to be angry about it.įor a century, Kalyazin and Tranavia bled great gouts of men into a holy war that served no greater cause than one country’s fear, and one empire’s hubris. ![]() But seriously-being this sensitive is really inconvenient. Ah yes, the place I truly dwell, a damp and cold eternity of endless disappointment.įine. ![]() ![]() ![]() In Kindred-Neanderthal Life, Love, Death and Art, Rebecca Wragg Sykes has brought together much of the latest research in archaeology, drawing on the increasingly sophisticated techniques used in excavation as well as advances in genetics. This has been swept aside by a far more nuanced understanding of who the Neanderthals were and where and how they lived. The popular portrait was one of thuggish, grunting cave-dwellers who died out with the advent of a superior species. Over the past few years scientific understanding of the Neanderthals-our nearest human relatives, or kindred as this book describes them-has been transformed. ![]() ![]() ![]() After spending most of my summer riding at YENT camp, there was no way I could be late to the first meeting. I couldn’t risk being late-it was the first meeting for the Youth Equestrian National Team. Conner, was holding a team meeting at the stable in half an hour. ![]() Plus, even though I didn’t want to leave, I kind of had to. Unless he wanted to risk death by Livvie, my dorm monitor. But I also wanted to see Eric, and with the “no boys allowed in Winchester Hall-ever!” rule, running into him here was highly unlikely. I wished my BFF and roommate, Paige Parker, would hurry through her parental goodbyes. I sat at the edge of my still-unmade bed and took a deep breath, wanting to stay in the safety of my room. If I left my dorm, I could get caught between Jacob-my ex–almost-boyfriend who suddenly wanted me back-and Eric-my amazing boyfriend who still didn’t know that Jacob had confessed his feelings to me the day before summer break. Not a feeling I’d imagined experiencing on my first day of eighth grade.īut it was true. I’D BEEN BACK ON THE Canterwood Crest Academy campus for an hour and I already felt trapped. Little White Lies 1 YOU CALL THIS A WELCOME? ![]() ![]() ![]() We caught up with Zack Zook-who, after nine years running BookCourt, left New York City in 2013 to run Seven Minus Seven, an NGO and non-profit art gallery in the US Virgin Islands-and he was kind enough to answer a couple of questions for us at what must be a busy moment: ![]() A key player in the retail renaissance of cozy Cobble Hill, BookCourt has thrived and expanded, becoming legendary for its excellent stock, ace staff, commodious event space (which, in New York City, is no small thing), and a certain je ne sais quoi that’s marked it as a store run not just savvily but passionately. Opened in 1981 by Mary Gannett and Henry Zook, who have run it ever since, later joined by their son Zack Zook, BookCourt has made itself an indispensable stalwart of the lit scene in Brooklyn, a breakaway republic situated just off the coast of the North American mainland. ![]() ![]() The news hit hard earlier this week: BookCourt, a beloved Brooklyn indie bookstore that has for thirty-five years stared down the ravages of Amazon, gentrification, and other forces of darkness, will be closing its doors at the end of this month. Henry Zook, Zack Zook, and Mary Gannett, in the expanded BookCourt, some years ago. ![]() ![]() ![]() Worst of all, Blackfoot knows more than he's telling, and what he's not telling could be enough to get them all killed."-Author's website.įantasy fiction. ![]() She certainly didn’t want a secretive, sarcastic. Even more alarming is the fact that the person who tried to kill Annabel is rapidly gaining control over the magical ruins. Bad luck is the least of their worries Annabel has never wanted a cat. When someone tries to kill Annabel and a spell goes very badly wrong, they find themselves trapped in the castle ruins, which are now growing back at an alarming rate. And some of those cats aren't as.friendly.as Blackfoot. ![]() ![]() More and more arrive each day, turning up at the old castle ruins where Annabel and Peter spend most of their time. Now Annabel and her friend Peter are being over-run by cats. Despite that, Blackfoot manages to slink into her life like a small, furry shadow. She certainly didn't want a secretive, sarcastic black cat who takes over her pillow and makes remarks that no one else ever seems to hear. "Bad luck is the least of their worries.Annabel has never wanted a cat. :, ġ online resource (352 unnumbered pages). National edeposit: Available onsite at the National Library of Australia, Libraries Tasmania (Hobart Library) National edeposit: Onsite at National Library of Australia. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() If you like jewelry you might want to check out my Halloween Memory Glass Pin that I made. I also made a hanger with a piece of bent wire and then put another small piece of foil tape over the ends of the wire to secure them to the frame of foil tape.Ĭool huh? These could be Halloween tree ornaments or favors on a treat bag…for grown ups of course! If you made them smaller they might also work as wine charms. I used a wooden skewer to burnish the tape and make mitered corners. Using the foil tape I sealed the paper and die cut inside. Then I sandwiched the paper between two pieces of the 2 inch by 2 inch memory glass. The Martha Stewart paper is double sided so no matter which side you look at it’s decorative. A party is always in the making when you have the Spiderweb Table Decor on hand. Only Martha Stewart could craft something so cleverly practical. Wilton-Spiderweb Table Decor Set: Spooky Night. I cut out portions of the Martha Stewart paper and placed a die cut where I wanted it. The nice part is that you can place the glass over various portions of the paper to find just the right spot to cut. Begin a new frightening tradition with our Martha Stewart Halloween Tree. This has got to be one of the quickest and easiest Halloween party favors I’ve ever come up with! ![]() ![]() ![]() This denouement is so stickily sentimental as to make Bambi blush with embarrassment. He unites with Doris and Little Otto in bliss. Wallingford's hallucination becomes reality. The ending is all smiles and simple happiness. The only character who is even interesting is a walk-on (make that lie-down) makeup girl who is condescendingly presented as a caricature of every woman ever to come out of Queens.Īs to Wallingford, he is - as portrayed by Irving - shallow, one-dimensional, as superficial as a typical local television newscast. There is not a nice person in the lot, not a person with redeeming humanity. As the story unfolds, events are dominated by the back-biting conniving insiders who seem to constitute the entire television industry but for Wallingford. (The book's title suggests Wallingford's two original hands, his briefly transplanted one, and a fourth that exists in his and ultimately Doris' imaginations.)Īnyway, one-handed again, Patrick returns to New York, becomes the evening news anchor on his all-news channel. The use of the missing hand as a sexual metaphor is strained beyond the breaking point. ![]() The book is replete with elbow-jabbing, winking, finger-pointing devices that cross the threshold into cutesy-poo, a technical critical term that I resort to only in extremis. If it is intended as straight stand-up burlesque, it's inhuman. Skip to main content Save 15 through Sunday. ![]() We have new and used copies available, in 13 editions - starting at 0.99. If it were intended as irony, it is simply sappy. The Fourth Hand by John Irving - Alibris Buy The Fourth Hand by John Irving online at Alibris. ![]() ![]() The cooking principles are basic and wellknown. Elucidated by over 100 line drawings, it systematically introduces the properties of all the basic spices and special ingredients of Indian food, then explains the techniques employed in using them, always with the help of comparisons to familiar Western methods.It is immediately obvious that Indian food is rich and varied, yet not difficult to prepare. ![]() This extraordinary cookbook, "Classic Indian Cooking," amounts to a complete course in Indian cuisine. ![]() |