Spam-U-Like

[desperance]

Actually I'm not quite sure if it is spam, if it's just retail recommendations directed at an established customer; but every now and then Amazon sends me a list of stuff they think I'll like, based on what I've bought previously. Often these days I run my eye down the list and think "Thanks, guys, you're absolutely right, I would like all these books - but as it happens, I already have them, or I've read them elsewhere," which is nice.

Today, though, they think I might like Untold Stories by Alan Bennett - which they're absolutely right, of course I would. But why do they think this, why are they recommending it to me? Because I bought "Side by Side by Sondheim". Which is a leap of imagination that actually quite impresses me.

In other news: I have met nineweaving, which was good (tho' I fell over on slippiness beneath a bridge, which was bad, and has jarred my spine unnecessarily); and I have shopped once today already, and think I must do it twice more (town, and supermarket, and Asian foodstore: they are all three of them in different directions from here), which I used to do as a matter of course but these days is a pain; and having delivered up the last of my proofs, I ought at last to be getting back to new work, the revision of the urban fantasy and the proposal for Dragon-in-Chains, but what with one thing and another, I think perhaps the workiest thing I shall do today - and indeed tomorrow, and until we are post-Xmas - is to read this book I have begun, that I've been asked to blurb. Me. Blurb a book. I'm sorry, what...?

Also, it has just struck me that I have not made a Xmas cake. Damn. I like cake. Perhaps I shall make a New Year cake. Yes...

Comments

[guipago.livejournal.com]

Completely don't need to read this, just put here to whine :P

I would like a lemon cake made with very few egg whites so that I can actually eat it, with a lemonesque frosting drizzled over the top. Moist and tastes good with seven up.

That being said, you ROCK.

*hugs*

(ps. No falling, falling bad)

[desperance.livejournal.com]

As far as the 7-Up goes, you're on your own (ick! yuck! - but I don't drink any of those carbonated sweet things, I think they're all vile, from Coke downwards), but the cake is a fine idea. I confess, I do make a lemon cake, with four layers of cakiness and lemon curd in between, and as you say lemony frosting over the top. And it is fab. But what's the problem with egg whites?

(ps - damn right, falling bad. We vote against falling. Also, we vote against gall bladders, apparently; but does this mean you have to spend the rest of your life swallowing gall, or is it a redundant organ?)

[guipago.livejournal.com]

allergic to egg whites :(

Certain things with small amount of egg whites in them I can sometimes get away with if they are baked or fried and the ratio of egg white to amount of food is very very low.

gall bladder is a fairly redundant organ. Your body can function without it. What it does is it stores excess bile from the liver then releases it when you eat in a flood. Your liver still makes bile, but you have no storage for excess when your gallbladder is gone. :P

I'll be fine in a few weeks after my body adjusts :)

[devonellington.livejournal.com]

I agree with the Amazon "You might like" list -- usually, I've already got them.

I liked Alan Bennett's "Untold Stories" -- for whatever that's worth.

Enjoy the book. I'm going to read MOCKINGBIRD, the Harper Lee portrait, this weekend. . .

[shewhomust.livejournal.com]

I made a Christmas cake (since I wasn't making a pudding this year): you can help eat mine, if you like. It isn't marzipanned yet, but it will be...