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Catalan allioli is traditionally eggless, just garlic, olive oil, and salt. Apparently there is a special technique for slowly adding oil into the hand mortar that emulsifies it.

"People manage to kill each other all the time. How hard can it be?"

This comes of always being the practical one, she thought, a bit wearily. Nobody will comfort you, so you learn to do it for yourself.

Wow, I really had my hopes up for something interesting regarding the vanishing bobbleheads.

Why would being gay make someone not like Anne Hathaway? I'm confused by this cue.

Wait, if the owners are ok with the bakery being haunted and are on good terms with Pavel and Bridger, why would they let Summer set up audio recording and not warn Bridger about it?

This seems like an overreaction to me. I wonder if Lucas' mom is just over protective or does she Know Something?

Or maybe it just seems weird to me because I grew up before cell phones and now all parent freak out of their adult children are out late and don't answer the phone.

Wow they repeat the basic facts of the plot a lot. Especially given that all the characters must have been there for the earlier events.

This scene where is Bridger is interrupting the reporter he was ordered to leave alone is just too dumb, even for a teen. It radiates "character doing stupid thing for convenience of author's plot outline," which always loses major points in my book.

I lie in the grass,
smoking,
feeling at ease,
pretending the end
will be like this.

They admired fake art, naturalist art, which copies nature without interpreting it; which believes that to copy is al we can and need do to nature; which is not conscious that we live in an uncomprehended universe... They believed that all is known and that on this final knowledge complete and binding rules can be laid down for the guidance of human thought and behavior.

...serious difference between describing a face as attractive and actually being attracted by it. Beauty mobilizes the emotions and it always looks to the future: these detached ratings do not.

Reviewers have a very ordinary counterpart in the rest of life: friends who want me to get acquainted with someone they believe I will appreciate.
...If everything turns out as all of us have hoped and, once we've met, I find you and your company enjoyable, then, far from resting on that verdict I shall want to get to know you better.

no account of why something is beautiful can ever be enough to prove that others should agree.

The real opposition is not between the works of art one admires and those one detests, but between those that stand out enough to be noticed at all and those that just pass by.

Sooo... the cops are stereotypical power-abusing bigots, but one is nonetheless the love interest? Confusing choice, author.

(Although I've seen this a surprising amount in fiction, so I can't be that hard on Butler. I'd like this to go the way of the dodo, however.)

"16: A chapter so sweet you'll find yourself imagining dark alternate timelines"

Elly's utter lack of listening skills is getting frustrating. I know it's supposed to be humorous-inner-monolog, but seriously, maybe listen when someone is explaining the rules of your new, desperately needed job?

This feels like a needlessly long and detailed exposition of all the jobs the MC has failed at. I'm here for the creepy mad science, not humorous incompetence.

Tricksters reveal the plenitude of all things (including lies!).

The prophet speaks of things that will be true in the future because they are true in all time,

This Nick Mamatas story had such interesting conceptual set-up, then -- nothing. What a waste.

Jade LIKES Lord Fine?! That is hard to buy.

Also surprised (in terms of both pacing and how fast I've reached this point) to see I'm more than halfway done.

You have amnesia after an accident that destroyed a building.
A creepy stranger warns you that a murder took place at the same time and the killer are probably watching you.
You go to the park alone at night to contemplate this.

Why are fictional characters like this?

(It's pretty good so far, I'm just eyerolling this particular trope.)

These were definitely not on display when I visited this museum. 😳

(Looking at you especially Bechtejeff)

Tricksters have no 'way' but make a path from materials at hand.

theft...allows for both commerce and a boundary

Slipping through holes rather than breaking down barriers

To the degree that each sphere is perfected, it will draw apart from the others, and the larger structure will lose vitality.

Japanese landscapes are valued for emotional tone or symbolism rather than for realism.

Tricks loosen the connection of earthly and heavenly, allowing us to follow separate patterns.