A.M. Offenwanger's Blog, page 45
July 5, 2016
Underrated Books
My awesome friend E. L. Bates just included SEVENTH SON on a list that also has books by Susan Cooper and Lloyd Alexander on it. Pardon me if I’m strutting around with a bit of a swelled head right now. Great book recommendations here – check it out! (Incidentally, if I was writing a list like this, E. L. Bates’ books would definitely be on it. Take a look.)
I saw this theme floating around today, and I was intrigued. The stated limit is “books with under 2,000 ratings on Good...
July 1, 2016
Happy Birthday, Canada!
…and Happy First Canada Day to me!
And to all of you, too. Looking pretty good for 149, Canada!
Filed under: this and that Tagged: Canada Day, Oh Canada
June 28, 2016
A.M.Offenwanger Editing
Look, it’s a snazzy new website! Check it out: www.amoffenwanger.com. You can also get there by clicking the “Editing Services” tab above. And the “Blog” tab on that website links back to here. There’s even a new email address that goes with it, editor@amoffenwanger.com. Cool, eh?
Spread the word – if you or anyone else you know is in need of a wordy nitpicker, here I am!
And that’s Life, the Universe, and a Brand-new Website. Go and share!
Filed under: editing Tagged: A. M. Offenwanger Edit...
June 24, 2016
Sourdough Bread
In Chapter 5 of Cat and Mouse, Catriona learns how to bake sourdough bread. It’s been a while since I’d done it myself, but I recently got some sourdough starter from a friend, so I had to give it a try. It turned out great. Here’s what it looked like in my kitchen, with relevant passages from Cat’s process by way of explanation. Of course, my dishes are ordinary boring plastics, not lovely stoneware crockery like Cat’s, and I have to admit to using electric appliances for both the kneading a...
June 22, 2016
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June 12, 2016
Lady Susan, or Love and Friendship
We went to see the new Jane Austen movie that just came out. Oh, you hadn’t heard about it? You’re wondering what it is – another Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility, maybe Northanger Abbey? Nope, nope and nope. It’s Love and Friendship. What, you don’t know that one? Well, neither does anyone else. That’s because it’s made after an unpublished novella called Lady Susan. Oh, you’ve never read that one either? Yeah, neither had I, until this morning.
Actually, “Love and Friendship” is...
June 8, 2016
May 31, 2016
Oh Canada – Finally!
As of 2:30 this afternoon, I’m a Canadian citizen. Finally! Almost twenty-seven years after immigrating, thirty years after first setting foot in the country, finally I got to sing “Oh Canada” without feeling like a tiny bit of a fraud. Because now Canada, at long last, is my country.
I don’t know if you understand how big a deal this is. You see, I fell in love with this country, back in that Expo Summer of ’86 when I first came over for a visit. I loved it so much, I came back – and that t...
May 30, 2016
Master Peaseblossom, or What’s In A Salad
This spring, a patch of peas sprang up in one of my garden beds. I didn’t ask for them to be there, they just showed up. I have a suspicion that they came from one of my attempts to grow pea shoots in the winter in a tray on the counter; the leftovers got dumped in the compost, and that’s probably where they ended up, in that garden bed.
So now they’re blooming, and yesterday I made a salad with a head of lettuce from the garden, and just for fun decided to toss in a few pea blossoms (or peas...
