Soporific

I'm trying to read Tristram Shandy. This book is magic. I get three or four pages in, I'm entertained, and then I wake up. I try again, get another few pages, and suddenly realize that I've misread the same sentence four times because despite the fact my eyes are open and moving, I am in fact asleep. I wake up. Repeat.

Now, I have a certain stubborness about finishing books. I've read Les Mis and War and Peace. I got through Foucault's Pendulum and actually rather loved it. I survived The Autumn of the Patriarch, despite the fact that I think Marquez used exactly one period, at the end. I absolutely despised Gravity's Rainbow, but I finished it, goddamn it.

I don't know if I can make it through this one. Not out of a lack of desire, but just because I cannot seem to keep my brain online long enough to make any headway. Arrgh. Maybe I can alternate (I'm reading it on my Nook) - ten pages of Shandy and then a couple chapters of Jeeves and Wooster or something.

Fabulousness

So the kale and bacon quiche that kept us up two nights ago? Fabulous. I'm having more for lunch. So, so good.

I'm currently in love with the food blog Love and Olive Oil. This is the source of the Chocolate Banana Cream Pie, the Cookie Dough Cream Pie, the Churro Cupcakes, and the Caramel Banana Cupcakes. And where I got the idea for the Rainbow Cake, which I promptly altered beyond recognition except for the six colors.

Last night, I made Cookie Dough Cupcakes. Do you know what's even more delicious than raw (eggless) cookie dough? Icing made out of raw cookie dough. One of the best icings ever. Nom.

2011 Book Review #67: Lady Chatterley's Lover

Title: Lady Chatterley's Lover
Author: D. H. Lawrence
Genre: Classic...erotica?
Thingummies: 3.5

Synopsis: Married to an emotionally distant paraplegic, Lady Chatterly fights Lost Generation-ennui by scandalously falling in love with her husband's groundkeeper.

Thoughts: ( So, what did you think? )