Anybody here try Uighur food? Ottoman x Cantonese. Yummy.

The Sinhalese word is Karepincha (emphasis on the e) which looks like it comes from the Tamil word which gave the Portuguese word which gave the word curry. Fucken what? Especially considering the ethnic tension between the two peoples.
Though the crisp up something or blacken it by cooking is to 'kare' too, so maybe…

Thanks so much. I'm terrified to resolve this but dang it I am being an adult this year.

Do library fines affect your credit scores? because when I was younger and very poor I incurred a vast fine on my card (I was also very irresponsible) and I just stole my sister's card (she's a dummy who doesn't read, she never even noticed this is a decade ago, *cackles) and I have been using it ever since (with no…

Who would forget the boots?
Only monsters.

You are absolutely right.

Great analysis - you're on your way to an essay. Let me know - I'd love to read it.

Naked torso!

As someone who is in a writer's group where nobody is giving critique, please give him feedback.
Work out what he wants to know i.e structural or line by line criticism and address that.
But if there is a serious problem give him your opinion and frame it as that.

I started reading Haroun and the Sea of Stories and stopped. I thought it was terrible as children's fiction.
But I'm starting Midnight's Children which a friend of mine described as the best thing he's ever read.

Oh yay a poet!
I'll check him out

I saw Shriver at the Melbourne Writer's Festival and though I haven't read the book, yes it is a libertarian fantasy.

No! Stop.
eek

The first three are permanent top ten for me. Welcome!

I really like Chandler esp. The Long Goodnight but what you say is correct. He's writing romance and Hammett was doing more.
Tho the racism and sexism are making these difficult to re-read they used to be my favourite comfort reads (those and Diana Wynne Jones).

Upon the wise and welcome advice of commentors here I am reading:

Never Let Me Go had me bawling loudly for a long time. What a sad book.

Isn't Gloria Columbian?

yes, I read it to be that these things are only put aside, not away; and also Jimmy said he would throw all those things away, yet he kept them. Dun dun dun…

Withering contempt wanly concealed under a blank-eyed smile. It's the standard response.