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[Don]

Small God's... check
Strange sexually transmitted city book... I don't know.

[Lowell]

Small gods is one of my all time favorite philosophy lessons. Oh, and it’s a good story too!

[Allison, Fairy Mod-mother]

Yeah, wow I'm surprised at just how many people love this book! Don, I think I'm in agreement with you haha

[Phrynne]

I'm with you too Allison. I loved Small Gods. I struggled with Palimpsest despite the fact the title is one of my favourite words.

[Lowell]

Allison, if I recall correctly, you’re reading the Discworld books in publication order?

You’re about to get into a bunch where Pratchett really hit his groove - filled with great characters, excellent puns, and in a lot of ways more meaningful stories. There’s still a lot of fluff, but you’re going to get a lot more like Guards! Guards! And Wyrd Sisters and Small Gods...

Wow. What a great experience to get to have....

[Gabi]

Lowell wrote: "Small gods is one of my all time favorite philosophy lessons. Oh, and it’s a good story too!"

Agreed! I used this book last year to talk with my boys about if they want to be baptized or not.

[Eva]

Yes, I also adore Pratchett and read all of his Discworld novels a while ago. I'm currently waiting to get older and for my memory of them to fade completely, so that I can read them all over again as if it were the very first time. 😅

[DivaDiane]

I love that, Gabi!

Eva, 🤩

[Candice]

Don wrote: "Small God's... check
Strange sexually transmitted city book... I don't know."

Thanks, Allison. I have wondered about Palimpset. It doesn't sound like one I will enjoy

Thanks, Raucous for posting the link to the Art of Discworld. I'm a huge fan!

For Discworld shopping, I recommend The Discworld Emporium!
https://www.discworldemporium.com

Candice

[Allison, Fairy Mod-mother]

I am not reading Discworld in any sort of order. I am the chaotic good moderator, and I read what I have when I want. I'm sort of intentionally leaving Guards! Guards! because I think I'm gonna love it and I want to have another thing to look forward to. I'm now 2 into Witches, 2 into Death, 1 into Rincewind, and Small Gods.

Thomas, yay!! Glad to have you, even gladder to be right (which is, of course, a common occurrence for me haha!) and excited to hear what you think of the rest of the series!! Will you be getting to them soon, do you think?

Candice, Palimpsest was definitely an exeperience. I think I'll like her other books more. I adored Deathless.

[Don]

Doing a Re-read of "Children of the Earth and Sky".

[Beth]

Gabi wrote: "Agreed! I used this book last year to talk with my boys about if they want to be baptized or not."

Wow, what a thoughtful way to approach this topic. Your kids are lucky! Certainly better than "you do thing, or else" that I got.

[Dj]

CBRetriever wrote: "I'm a speed reader (self taught), so I go through books pretty fast. I also play a lot of game apps on my Fire. However, I had no children and we moved from Texas to Oregon after I retired and have..."

If you live in Oregon I suggest you go to Falls City on some weekend and go to the Bakery, which opens at 2PM and order some Pizza, it was truly awesome. And their Cinnamon Rolls were the size of a brick.

[CBRetriever]

serving sizes are definitely huge in Oregon, especially for french fries. I've been getting sliders and not full sized hamburgers plus one order of fries between my husband and me.

[Dj]

CBRetriever wrote: "serving sizes are definitely huge in Oregon, especially for french fries. I've been getting sliders and not full sized hamburgers plus one order of fries between my husband and me."

There is a place called Little Big Burger, that gives you a Quater Pound Hamburger on a slider bun. There fries are massive and they are Truffle Fries. Very tasty. Not all that expensive.

[Esther]

Ok, educate me! What is a slider? How is it similar to a hamburger?

[CBRetriever]

from my favorite place to get them:


* slider
(‘sli-der’)
a small yummy sandwich, typically no bigger than three inches across and served on a bun.

Slider (S), approx. 3 oz, or Full Size (FS), approx. 6 oz

website: https://pdxsliders.com/menu/ don't drool too much when looking at the pictures

[Jacqueline]

Sliders are basically mini hamburgers. Yes I know you lot call them sandwiches but here in Australia if it’s between two pieces of bread it’s a sandwich and if it’s in a bun it’s a hamburger.

[CBRetriever]

what about a patty melt? It's a hamburger and cheese between two sliced of bread, grilled like a grilled cheese sandwich.

[Jacqueline]

See that’s just it. You call the patty itself hamburger but here it’s just a patty. The ground beef is called mince. That patty melt isn’t something we do here so you can call it whatever you want but it would be a sandwich because it’s between two pieces of bread. We do have rissole sandwiches....rissoles are basically burger patties but not. And we do have steak sandwiches. A nice piece of steak between two pieces of bread. The basic ones just have caramelised onion and tomato sauce (ketchup) or bbq sauce (not really like yours) and then you can have ones with beetroot, tomato, lettuce, cheese and maybe an egg and some bacon and even a slice of pineapple. Our hamburgers usually come with those toppings. A plain hamburger is a beef patty, cooked onion, tomato, lettuce, cheese and beetroot. One with the lot or the works then has an egg and bacon and pineapple.

But then again I burnt my hamburger bun the other week and ended up having a sandwich not a hamburger.

[Don]

Jacqueline, I was told there would be Vegemite !!!

[Jacqueline]

Not on our hamburgers. On our hamburgers we have beetroot. Cold pickled beetroot. A delicacy here in Australia and New Zealand.

[Anna]

Please continue the food discussion in the language/culture thread, which is where we tried to direct y'all the last time this happened! :D

[Jacqueline]

Sorry Anna

[Anna]

It's fine, that's what I'm here for! I wish people would read that as what it is, though, just a redirection. I'm not trying to tell you to stop talking about food, just to do it where we can have all of it in one place. We want to have an all you can eat buffet of food talk in one thread, not tiny little snacks around the house :)

You can tell me your preferences re: buffet vs snacks in the other thread!

[Esther]

Anna wrote: "Please continue the food discussion in the language/culture thread, which is where we tried to direct y'all the last time this happened! :D"

Maybe you could change the thread title so the range of subjects is clear. Although I realise now the connection is sort-of obvious, it would never have occured to me that the language thread was the place to discuss food traditions.

[Jacqueline]

I know Anna :) It’s just that sometimes we get carried away. It won’t happen again. Until next time that is.

[Anna]

I’ll let Allison decide what to name the thread, but that’s a good idea :)

[Allison, Fairy Mod-mother]

I have updated the language thread in the hopes that will clear it up some!

I also finished:

Small Gods which was just as lovely as you all said. Perhaps not quite as funny as some of the others I've read, but witty and poignant.

I also breezed through In Search of the Lost Feminine: Decoding the Myths That Radically Reshaped Civilization which was a decent assertion on the role stories played in solidifying patriarchal society, but not anything particularly shocking, other than some of the assumptions.

Now starting one of the BOTMs for next year and Beggars in Spain.

[Carolyn]

I just read I Hunt Killers, a really fun YA about the son of a serial killer who needs to prove to everyone and most importantly to himself that he is not going to follow in the footsteps of “Dear Old Dad.”

I’m currently reading Children of Time and absolutely loving it. I don’t think I’ve ever read anything quite like it. But...spiders...blergh. :)

[Don]

I really like Beggars in Spain

[John]

I’m going to start after Christmas and thought about reading

[Esther]

Allison wrote: "I have updated the language thread in the hopes that will clear it up some."

Thanks!

[Gabi]

My finished reads the last week contained two books for younger readers (with my boys):

The Golden Compass: my boys liked Lyra and the book a lot, even though my eldest told me "it shows that a man wrote this" :D. We're now on the second book.

Coraline had me unimpressed, the boys were equally lukewarm about it, so it goes onto the been-there-done-that pile.

I finished a short story anthology Sisters of the Revolution: A Feminist Speculative Fiction Anthology. Even though the title is too sensational for my taste the stories themselves were in majority good to very good. A really great overview over female speculative writers from the 1970ies to today. I found some names where I definitely want to read more of.

For my nerdy side I read Dead Endless, a tie-in novel for my favourite Star Trek series, featuring my favourite characters. To my utter relief it was way better than what I've read so far in terms of tie-in novels and I couldn't stop listening to it. (Had to re-arrange my day with earplugs)

The last two books I finished were A Deepness in the Sky and Embassytown - and though both had some really good SF ideas the difference couldn't have been greater. While "Deepness in the Sky" had me fighting loss of attention throughout all of the 28 hours of listening, I was glued completely alert to "Embassytown". Miéville's book was perfectly paced, no scene too long or distracting, highly focused. While Vinge meandered through multiple POVs, flashbacks, political intrigues, pages of explanations and had me completely lose interest in any of the characters (some of them I couldn't even distinguish, cause they felt the same)

[Anna]

Gabi wrote: "I finished a short story anthology Sisters of the Revolution: A Feminist Speculative Fiction Anthology. Even though the title is too sensational for my taste the stories themselves were in majority good to very good. A really great overview over female speculative writers from the 1970ies to today. I found some names where I definitely want to read more of."

I think this was/is on sale today for $0.99 in the US Kindle store? Not for me (in Finland), but maybe if you're in the US and it sounds good, check now!

[Gabi]

That's great, Anna. It is really worth a read.

[Gabi]

This year I have such a luck with my picks! I just read Station Eleven in under 24 hours, because I loved the idea, the structure, the prose … so much!

[Amanda]

Gabi wrote: "This year I have such a luck with my picks! I just read Station Eleven in under 24 hours, because I loved the idea, the structure, the prose … so much!"

Ooh, I've heard mixed opinions on that one, glad to have another point in the win column.

I've got about 50 pages left in The Farthest Shore (which is absolutely gorgeous so far), so I should finish that either later today or tomorrow, and then wrap up The Summer Tree sometime this week.

[Gary]

I finished reading The Ghost Brigades by John Scalzi, Artificial Condition by Martha Wells and Rogue Protocol by Martha Wells. I am reading The Dragon Reborn by Robert Jordan. I plan to read Exit Strategy by Martha Wells next.

[Don]

Martha Wells, I demand more "MurderBot" !!!

[Don]

Gabi, don't listen "Station Eleven" is wonderful.

[Jacqueline]

The Murderbot novel is supposed to be out in May Don.

Is it weird that my phone predicts that I’m going to type Murderbot after just typing mur? Anyhoo.....

[Stratos]

300 pages in Dragon Reborn and I cant say I m happy. How it works for you Gary?

[Jacqueline]

Found a bookshop that I didn’t know existed when I went buying Christmas presents today. Picked up Trail of Lighting by Rebecca Roanhorse, the first 4 Earthsea books in an omnibus which was $2 more than a single copy of The Wizard of Earthsea and the second book in the Grey Bastards series, The True Bastards by Jonathan French. All these are for me.

[Allison, Fairy Mod-mother]

LOL I like how you Christmas shop, Jacqueline XD

Yay for a Murderbot, Le Guin and Station Eleven end of the decade!!

[colleen the convivial curmudgeon]

I'm reading Spellslinger - which I'm finding simultaneously interesting, but also draggy.

[Karen]

I finished The Bear and the Nightingale while on vacation and ended up absolutely loving it. I went into it not really sure of my reaction since I'm not a fan of Russian folklore. However, I was pleasantly surprised with the story and the meshing of the two world. This work of fantasy was less of a stretch of the imagination than the two Nora Roberts love stories I also read...Early resolution--no more Nora Roberts love stories, strictly her fantasy based books!

[Gabi]

Karen wrote: "I finished The Bear and the Nightingale while on vacation and ended up absolutely loving it. ..."

I loved this one as well. I just finished the last one in the trilogy The Winter of the Witch, it didn't grip me as much as the first book, but still the trilogy is worth a read. I liked the mix of Russian fairy tale, real history and the cold atmosphere.

[Lynne]

I picked up a book the other day and have started reading it. It is from 2009, entitled The Law of Nines, by Terry Goodkind.
I find it somewhat unusual, especially for a bestselling author.
If you have read it, what were your impressions?

[Doubledf99.99]

CBRetriever wrote: "what about a patty melt? It's a hamburger and cheese between two sliced of bread, grilled like a grilled cheese sandwich."

back in my younger golfing days, we came up with a drink for our flask during the cold months of winter play, we called it a Slider, drink was a mixture of half rum and half jack daniels or jim beam. And it was goooooooood.