meme: ten questions answered

From lnhammer:

1. Who ate the last donut?

When Earth's last donut is eaten
and the pastry-bags twisted and dried
When the last meringue has been beaten
and the vogue for cupcakes has died
We shall rest, and, faith, we shall need it,
live on spinach an aeon or two
till the mandate of all good pâtissieries
shall put us to work anew
and those with live yeast shall be happy
to bake to a golden turn
the first of celestial donuts
from the finest of alien corn
We'll find indescribable fillings,
some living, some dead, but all sweet,
and the kneading will be worth an epic
and the crumb will be springy and neat
And only the sous-chef will praise us
and only the public will blame
(you call that a donut? they'll ask us--
are you sure that thing merits the name?)
but each for the joy of baking
and each in a separate star
will bake for the future of Terra
the donuts for spacemen afar.

... wait, what was the question again?

( 2-5 cut for length. )

From mrissa:

1. Now that your 365 days of reviews are almost over, do you notice any category of books as surprisingly missing? (One imagines that "really long ones" wouldn't surprise.)

I don't see anything entirely missing that I'd have expected would be there, but there are fewer things tagged as 'archaeology', 'architecture', and 'folklore/mythology' than I would have thought. I may be rereading too much in those fields. There is also more philosophy than I really expected, and less literary criticism.

Actually, I haven't been keeping much track of length except to watch what the longest book I've read is, but a fair number of these have been really long. The current longest, which I mention here because I will at this point be surprised if it changes, is Patrick Rothfuss' The Wise Man's Fear, which Amazon lists at 1008 pages in hardcover. At least I think it is the longest; I can't find an accurate internet page count of Tristram Shandy, which is the other thing that feels like a contender.

( 2-5 cut for length. )

meme: ten questions answered

From lnhammer:

1. Who ate the last donut?

When Earth's last donut is eaten
and the pastry-bags twisted and dried
When the last meringue has been beaten
and the vogue for cupcakes has died
We shall rest, and, faith, we shall need it,
live on spinach an aeon or two
till the mandate of all good pâtissieries
shall put us to work anew
and those with live yeast shall be happy
to bake to a golden turn
the first of celestial donuts
from the finest of alien corn
We'll find indescribable fillings,
some living, some dead, but all sweet,
and the kneading will be worth an epic
and the crumb will be springy and neat
And only the sous-chef will praise us
and only the public will blame
(you call that a donut? they'll ask us--
are you sure that thing merits the name?)
but each for the joy of baking
and each in a separate star
will bake for the future of Terra
the donuts for spacemen afar.

... wait, what was the question again?

( 2-5 cut for length. )

From mrissa:

1. Now that your 365 days of reviews are almost over, do you notice any category of books as surprisingly missing? (One imagines that "really long ones" wouldn't surprise.)

I don't see anything entirely missing that I'd have expected would be there, but there are fewer things tagged as 'archaeology', 'architecture', and 'folklore/mythology' than I would have thought. I may be rereading too much in those fields. There is also more philosophy than I really expected, and less literary criticism.

Actually, I haven't been keeping much track of length except to watch what the longest book I've read is, but a fair number of these have been really long. The current longest, which I mention here because I will at this point be surprised if it changes, is Patrick Rothfuss' The Wise Man's Fear, which Amazon lists at 1008 pages in hardcover. At least I think it is the longest; I can't find an accurate internet page count of Tristram Shandy, which is the other thing that feels like a contender.

( 2-5 cut for length. )

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