I haven’t read this book since I was about 14 and it was mortifying. It was the first adult book that I’d read that contained sex scenes which by itself wasn’t a problem. The problem was that my parents also read it and knew that I read it so that meant that they knew that I’d read those sex scenes. One in particular,…

It was my impression that the mushrooms were in the salad, not the pesto but that could just be wishful reading.

There are all kinds of salad recipes featuring long skinny noodles, though most of them tend to have asian flavors. But it’s not *that* weird to use spaghetti for a pasta salad.

I’m here from the future to tell you that it’s out and it’s not bad. The setting is different and only one (I think) character from the first three appears so it’s more like a book set in the same universe than a fourth book in a series, if that makes sense. 

I just tried and I couldn’t find anywhere to turn it off. Obviously that doesn’t mean that it’s not there, just that it’s not obvious. 

Crispy pepperoni has changed my salad life. Who needs croutons?

Your empathy is not proportionate the situation at hand and it comes off dickish.

My biggest restaurant pet peeve is having to wait for the check.  

I’ve noticed that there is also a cumulative effect, however.  For instance, I would have been sound asleep (not passed out drunk, just asleep) after about the fourth hour. 

Welcome to the 21st century. You have much to catch up on now that you’ve awakened from that extended coma.

Meh, I won’t be using my face after I’m dead so the cat is welcome to it. 

When I got married I let my husband wear black jeans.  My mother almost had a cow.  I’m no longer married.  Are any of those statements related? Who knows?

I can’t think of a better way to spend a hot summer day.  Or any day.

I believe that he’s probably a right-wing nutcase in truth but does he believe most of the fantasies that he spews? No. No, he doesn’t. He’s laughing all the way to the bank. 

Why?  

That makes sense.  Thanks.

I didn’t know those existed and now I MUST have one.  

I put sharp knives in the dishwasher all the time and they’re fine. I’m just careful about where I put them so that they aren’t rubbing up against anything else. I’m guessing that the dishwasher is more harmful to wooden handles than the blades themselves.

Why was it okay for The Magicians and not The Expanse, though?

There is a new school of thought that says you should cook your meat at low temps, take it out when it’s almost to temperature, let it rest and then put it in a screaming hot oven and let it sear. I haven’t tried it because I don’t cook a lot of big hunks of meat but it’s out there.