What Are You Reading?

[Van Blaricum]

I am now reading " Skeleton Crew " ( again ) as well as this non fiction-y book that I bought a few weeks ago, The Nazi Hunters, by Neal Bascomb.

Re: Pasties, there is a place here in SE MPLS, called Potter's Pasties and Pies, I work near there each spring, and get the pasties when I'm near, I am abso obsessed! Divine. I bring them home and freeze them. They one up the sandwich. Take that, Earl Of...

 

[Mr Nobody]

Once, when i was on an excavation in the UK for 6 months, i won a prize. It was only awarded that year. The Swede of the year! Since i was the only swede on the dig i was the only nominee. The prize was one of these things. Hadn''t an idea they were called swedes in english before that. It was a kind of tradituon to award strange prizes and give them away. A sort of excuse to celebrate that another season is successfully finished.

An example of our famed(?) sense of humour(?).
But I've no real idea of why we call them swedes either. I always assumed they were Swedish, and since we already had 'regular' turnips it was just a way to differentiate.

Todash, skimom2 - Will do.

 

[Haunted]

I had to look up "swede." It's a rutabaga! I kind of like those, although they're not very commonly eaten in the US. I like them because they taste a little horseradish-y. Might you post your recipe in the Recipes thread? I tried making pasties once as a teenager. Totally did NOT turn out. But I'm a much better cook now, and I'd like to take another stab at it.

I call them turnips and I am allowed one twice a year for Thanksgiving and Christmas dinners. I mash 'em with a little milk and butter! Great, when swooped up with mashed 'taters and gravy.

Yes, Mr. Nobody, RECIPE, RECIPE, RECIPE!!

 

[Haunted]

I'm in the same boat. lol

I will do it within the next year though, hopefully.

I hope you do soon, you will meet some extraordinarily wonderful people, some bums too. A story of human nature at its best and it worst.

 

[cat in a bag]

After that I want to maybe read a book a student from my creative writing class recommended. Gone Girl? She said it's twisty. Not necessarily the twisty type, but anyone read it and like it?

I'm reading Gone Girl right now. Have just over 100 pages to go. I am enjoying it fine, even though I find the 2 main characters not very likeable at all, from the beginning. I haven't really been taken by surprise yet, though. (Without saying to much, don't want to spoil it for you!)

 

[EMARX]

I finished Revival last. I sat there after with this strange hollowed out feeling and it still pervades a little even now. But the narrative drive never slackens, with nary a word out of place.

I also finished Without Frontiers, the Peter Gabriel biography. For geeks like me the trove of information about the recordings but pretty superficial otherwise. I don't think he had any access to his subject and most of the quotes are from existing publications.

And finally, I started A Sudden Light, by Garth Stein.

 

[Todash]

I call them turnips and I am allowed one twice a year for Thanksgiving and Christmas dinners. I mash 'em with a little milk and butter! Great, when swooped up with mashed 'taters and gravy.

Yes, Mr. Nobody, RECIPE, RECIPE, RECIPE!!

I believe turnips are smaller, white and purple. Rutabagas/swedes are larger, yellow and purple. But to me they taste quite similar.

I'm trying to decide which is more fun: calling them rutabagas or calling them swedes. Tough choice.

 

[Haunted]

I believe turnips are smaller, white and purple. Rutabagas/swedes are larger, yellow and purple. But to me they taste quite similar.

I'm trying to decide which is more fun: calling them rutabagas or calling them swedes. Tough choice.

I think the name of the veggie is regional. Regardless, 'tis awesome, rare or cooked and mashed.

 

[Todash]

I think the name of the veggie is regional. Regardless, 'tis awesome, rare or cooked and mashed.

Fried at a very low heat in butter is also good. I've heard.

 

[Haunted]

Fried at a very low heat in butter is also good. I've heard.

Huh, never thought of that. THANKS. I'll have to do that on the sly. I essentially have to hide my lone, tiny turnip from the family as they all hate 'em. Silly, silly people.

 

[Haunted]

I am reading Revival, taking it slow and reveling in it. I also brought home from the library Can't we talk about something more PLEASANT? A Memoir by Roz Chast which is about dealing with elderly parents. It is done in cartoon format.

 

[EMARX]

I tried to take it slow and had a hard time doing it. But I did take the last hundred pages in very deliberately.

 

[skimom2]

Fried at a very low heat in butter is also good. I've heard.

They're very good roasted, as well. We dice them with other heavy veggies (beets, potatoes, sweet potatoes, onions, etc.), drizzle on a little olive oil, sprinkle with fresh or dried thyme (depends on where we are in the herb garden process-lol) and kosher salt, and roast at 350 for about a half hour, stirring the veggies about half way through.

 

[Kurben]

Got a book in the mail today. Carthage must be Destroyed by Richard Miles. A history over Carthage and its rise and fall. About time. You can fairly easy read about their clashes with Rome about power in the Mediterranean but always with a Roman angle. It will be interesting to read a history that focuses on Carthage and not Rome. For western Europe the outcome of that war was very important. If Carthage had won much would probably be different. But i think i must finish Tommyknockers first.

 

[Mr Nobody]

Got a book in the mail today. Carthage must be Destroyed by Richard Miles. A history over Carthage and its rise and fall. About time. You can fairly easy read about their clashes with Rome about power in the Mediterranean but always with a Roman angle. It will be interesting to read a history that focuses on Carthage and not Rome. For western Europe the outcome of that war was very important. If Carthage had won much would probably be different. But i think i must finish Tommyknockers first.

Archaeology/ancient history is a bit of a hobby of mine - history moreso, since all I ever get to do is read - and that sounds like it'd be right up my street. Cheers, Kurben.
(My wallet's just groaned and I'm sure I heard a distant scream from my bank...)

 

[champ1966]

We used to use turnips instead of pumpkins at Halloween when we were kids, we were that poor.Saying that we had to eat coal for breakfast, and get up before we went to bed #montypythons

 

[Van Blaricum]

Hai guys!
The thread is " what are you reading? " not " what is you eatin'? "

Tahaha.

 

[king family fan]

I started reading Revival last night.

 

[Mr Larry Underwood]

The man from Constantinople sucked. Don't worry it is not even translated to English... Bought some non fiction for a change ( 300 bucks in books this year and worth it every penny. " the sixth extinction". Recommend to all science aficionados. And people with curiosity.

 

[skimom2]

Got a book in the mail today. Carthage must be Destroyed by Richard Miles. A history over Carthage and its rise and fall. About time. You can fairly easy read about their clashes with Rome about power in the Mediterranean but always with a Roman angle. It will be interesting to read a history that focuses on Carthage and not Rome. For western Europe the outcome of that war was very important. If Carthage had won much would probably be different. But i think i must finish Tommyknockers first.

That sounds interesting! Do you know what documents he used to come at it from a Carthaginian angle? Seems as if that would have been difficult without a great deal of supposition.