Project Project Gutenberg: E and F

This bread pudding is what makes my life as a recipe blogger so difficult:  it is absolutely delicious, but there’s no way to give you the recipe.  This is what happened:  Little Sunshine was sick yesterday, and Joan has joined her on the H1N1 trolley today.   They are just sick enough to want coddling, without [...]

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Project Project Gutenberg: The Crimson Blind

Aren’t those pie cherries pretty?  They haven’t got a thing to do with today’s novel, except that they’re crimson.
So, The Crimson Blind. 1905, by Fred M(errick) White.  White was a prolific early writer of genre fiction–science fiction, spy stories, and murder mysteries.  
The Crimson Blind is an excellent read, if just a trifle long for my modern tastes [...]

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Project Project Gutenberg: B is for The Bars of Iron

It’s so, so hot here that I can hardly bear to breathe.  The amorous slugs you see above had the energy to contemplate the making of baby slugs late last night, which gives me some questions about the word sluggish.  I barely had the energy to contemplate the slugs.  But I wasn’t going to let [...]

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All New Monday Feature: Project Project Gutenberg

Once upon a time, I was a very new, very provincial, very naive graduate student in the English Department at Ohio State University.  Jane, whose last name I can’t remember, was in every way my antithesis:  tousled, world-weary, wreathed in cigarette smoke, so fabulously thin that her hipbones had worn holes in her perfectly-aged Levis.  And she [...]

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