Update to the pumpkin muffin fiasco. A friend brought over some pumpkin muffins (unfrosted) which she called cupcakes. My daughter happily ate one!
Forget truth in advertising it doesn't pay...
Wednesday, February 6, 2008
Sunday, February 3, 2008
Yikes Another Reading Challenge!
I know it's only the second one, but the first one is so ambitious that adding another seems kind of crazy. This one is the Eponymous Reading Challenge. Read four books whose title's are the names or titles of one or more characters. My only hope of success is to choose works that are short, and overlap with my other reading challenge. My list is as follows:
Miss Marjoribanks by Margaret Oliphant
Lady Susan by Jane Austen
Catharine: or the Bower by Jane Austen
Prince Prigio by Andrew Lang
Miss Marjoribanks by Margaret Oliphant
Lady Susan by Jane Austen
Catharine: or the Bower by Jane Austen
Prince Prigio by Andrew Lang
Only Miss Marjoribanks is at all long, and it is part of my other reading challenge.
Saturday, February 2, 2008
More Reading Challenges
I really wanted to join in on the decades reading challenge, but I also wanted to limit myself to a realistic amount of reading. I thought that I would be able to do that by reading short "fairy tales" written in the 19th century with a then contemporary setting. They are charming light reads, and funny, and most conveniently relatively brief. But the ones I have in mind were published too close together, or are impossible to find a publication date for.
I'll have to find a new challenge that my list will suit.
The Rose and the Ring by William Makepeace Thackeray - 1855
The Magic Fishbone by Charles Dickens - 1868
Petsetilla's Poesy by Tom Hood - 1870
Prince Perigio by Andrew Lang - 1889
The Light Princess by George Macdonald -?
Uncle James or the Purple Stranger by E. Nesbit 19??
Update. Hooray! I have gotten hold of some of the missing pub dates.
I'll have to find a new challenge that my list will suit.
The Rose and the Ring by William Makepeace Thackeray - 1855
The Magic Fishbone by Charles Dickens - 1868
Petsetilla's Poesy by Tom Hood - 1870
Prince Perigio by Andrew Lang - 1889
The Light Princess by George Macdonald -?
Uncle James or the Purple Stranger by E. Nesbit 19??
Update. Hooray! I have gotten hold of some of the missing pub dates.
The Pumpkin Muffin Fiasco
As a child I was a picky eater and now it's payback time. My child is quite particular about what she will eat. Alas, I am always trying to find ways to slip a vegetable past her food censor. Mostly with little success.
A friend of mine made some yummy pumpkin bread. It was fantastic, like carrot cake only smoother. I begged her to send me the recipe. Which she very generously did. At last I thought I can slip some beta carotene into my Little Muffin and it will go undetected!
Muffin loves to help in the kitchen and was very happy to mix up the batter, spoon it into muffin cups, and add chocolate chips (which were my four-year-old attraction insurance). Once the muffins and the loaf of pumpkin bread had baked up she took a bite that was smaller than a mouse bite and refused to eat any more. My husband won't eat anything pumpkin flavored, and would not try them, and they had three cups of sugar which gives me migranes. So I had to take them to work where my lovely coworkers ate them up.
To add insult to injury two days later Muffin was discovered to have eaten a bunch of crayons.
A friend of mine made some yummy pumpkin bread. It was fantastic, like carrot cake only smoother. I begged her to send me the recipe. Which she very generously did. At last I thought I can slip some beta carotene into my Little Muffin and it will go undetected!
Muffin loves to help in the kitchen and was very happy to mix up the batter, spoon it into muffin cups, and add chocolate chips (which were my four-year-old attraction insurance). Once the muffins and the loaf of pumpkin bread had baked up she took a bite that was smaller than a mouse bite and refused to eat any more. My husband won't eat anything pumpkin flavored, and would not try them, and they had three cups of sugar which gives me migranes. So I had to take them to work where my lovely coworkers ate them up.
To add insult to injury two days later Muffin was discovered to have eaten a bunch of crayons.
Reading Challenges
So many reading challenges out there on the internet and so little time to read!
I really want to sign up for a dozen of them, but a realistic look at my free time compels me to be selective. The 19th Century Women Writers Reading Challenge for 2008 looks fantastic and would allow me to combine rereading old favorites with actually getting to some titles that have been on my must read list for well over a decade perhaps even two decades. So really high time I read them.
At the moment I am considering the following titles:
Middlemarch by George Eliot
Wives and Daughters by Mrs. Gaskell
Villette by Charlotte Bronte
Miss Marjoribanks by Margaret Oliphant*
Cranford by Mrs. Gaskell
Persuasion by Jane Austen*
*These two titles will be rereads for me.
I have attempted to read Middlemarch before and not gotten very far, Wives and Daughters I once bought with the idea that I would read it in my copious free time during my maternity leave. Hah!
I am not the biggest Bronte fan, but somehow have always felt that I ought to read Villette, so fingers crossed that I can get through it... Cranford looks short being under 250 pages!
I really loved Miss Marjoribanks when I read it almost 20 years ago, so time for a reread to see if it holds up.
I really want to sign up for a dozen of them, but a realistic look at my free time compels me to be selective. The 19th Century Women Writers Reading Challenge for 2008 looks fantastic and would allow me to combine rereading old favorites with actually getting to some titles that have been on my must read list for well over a decade perhaps even two decades. So really high time I read them.
At the moment I am considering the following titles:
Middlemarch by George Eliot
Wives and Daughters by Mrs. Gaskell
Villette by Charlotte Bronte
Miss Marjoribanks by Margaret Oliphant*
Cranford by Mrs. Gaskell
Persuasion by Jane Austen*
*These two titles will be rereads for me.
I have attempted to read Middlemarch before and not gotten very far, Wives and Daughters I once bought with the idea that I would read it in my copious free time during my maternity leave. Hah!
I am not the biggest Bronte fan, but somehow have always felt that I ought to read Villette, so fingers crossed that I can get through it... Cranford looks short being under 250 pages!
I really loved Miss Marjoribanks when I read it almost 20 years ago, so time for a reread to see if it holds up.
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