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[rushthatspeaks]

My review of Ayize Jama-Everett's The Liminal People is up at Strange Horizons (generally positive, with a few caveats).

My recipe for butter-pie, reverse-engineered from Diana Wynne Jones' novel A Tale of Time City, has been up at Sharyn November's DWJ2012 Tumblr for... uh like a month, sorry for losing track there, anyway it is a good recipe. I am typing this with the laptop leaning on the monumental edifice of the Alinea cookbook, which substantially increases the odds of my retooling this at a later date with, like, isomalt and a Pacojet, but at the moment I would call it Only Slightly Fiddly and totally achievable by anyone who feels comfortable working with caramel.

And in other DWJ-related news, my memorial poem for her, "Corpus", has sold to Strange Horizons; I will link when it becomes available. Many thanks to those who beta-read it-- your advice was very helpful and caused me to make some good changes.

Comments

[kore]

Butter-pie! Oh, wow.

[skygiants]

. . . man, I'm not sure I could actually eat that butter-pie, but I really want to attempt it anyway just because . . . . childhood dreams! BUTTER PIE!

[rachelmanija.livejournal.com]

I'm not ambitious or skilled enough to make it, but I definitely want to eat it!

[skygiants]

This would be a perfect partnership, except it is so clearly impossible to transport butter-pie across state borders!

[jinian.livejournal.com]

It seems weird to me that Taggert would be able to detect genetic diseases but not paternity. I guess malfunction would be the key, but I feel like there's so much variation in "normal" at the molecular level that it doesn't make sense to qualify things that way. I might be too mystified to read the book, which is sad, because it sounds interesting.

[rushthatspeaks.livejournal.com]

He knows his daughter's his when he meets her, but in his first reunion with the mother it does not seem too likely that he'll meet the daughter-- certainly the mother intended it never to happen, and wouldn't have called him in if it weren't an emergency. If you mean Taggert should have noticed the conception, well, I agree, but he was young, he was way less experienced at interpreting information than he would later become, and it's harder for him to read other people who have powers, which the mother has. Which is to say, this didn't bother me at the time, although now you mention it it's a thing I would have appreciated the author going into a little more.

[jinian.livejournal.com]

Fair enough. I'm now on the side of giving it a try. Thanks.

[nineweaving.livejournal.com]

Butter-pie! Brilliant.

I am thrilled that "Corpus" will be read and loved by many.

Nine

[ashnistrike.livejournal.com]

Congratulations on the sale! And the book sounds interesting; I love anything that gets into that kind of physical awareness.

[steepholm.livejournal.com]

I daren't make butter pie lest I never stop, but I am looking forward very much to "Corpus".

[khava.livejournal.com]

I have no idea if you are a fan of Glee at all, but I've been reading this fanfic that constantly reminds me of you. It's a Kurt and Blaine story but in an alternate universe where Kurt runs a high-end bakery and Blaine is a customer at his store. The language is just lovely and the story includes recipes. I should mention, the story is not finished yet, but the author is updating regularly at 1-2 week intervals.

"Sweet! A Love Story Told in Sugar" by OhQuixotica -- http://ohquixotica.livejournal.com/tag/sweet