May 06, 2008
Chunky and nutty? Or rich and dense?
No, Silly! Not you! Your cookie preference!
We are all totally in love with the new Martha Stewart’s Cookies. So far? 5 copies ordered amongst the staff and you know when we feel the need to own something this is speaking volumes (book joke!) about how passionately we feel.
In the beginning of the book the cookies are broken down into their various textures. Not only the two mentioned above but, also light and delicate or crumbly and sandy, or perhaps soft and chewy are what is being called for. The Desketeers are not only big believers in the right book at the right time, but also we believe in the proper cookie in its proper place (which is usually the counter in the Circ Office decorative plate optional!).
The photography in this book is spectacular and so full of delicious cookie goodness you will be begging for your cookie beverage of preference, be it a glass of milk, or a cup of coffee or tea, a soft comfy chair and a good book to nap with.
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April 10, 2008
My friends keep sending me this article from the March 30 New York Times
They want to know what I am thinking over this one. Does what a man reads affect the way you think of him as a person if you yourself are a reader?
Well, I am thinking plenty.
Look, if you are a guy and you don’t read at all: I am talking even the Sport’s Section of USA Today, a woman who reads really will not want to have anything to do with you. For some men this seems to be ok. They like a woman who seems a bit vague.
I would think that this would get boring. I want nothing to do with it.
As for those who do read, what you read DOES make a difference. Sorry. But it does. If I see a man who has a bunch of touchy feely self help books or anything with Mars and Venus in the title on the coffee table I am running like the wind.
However, there is nothing worse than the Pretentious Reader. We have all bumped into this guy. He will read nothing that is not sanctioned by The New York Review of Books. God forbid that anything should be enjoyable or fun. This man loves the dry, dusty and boring. You know that you have been trapped by him at a cocktail party pontificating on the latest rave review. Chances are he has not even read the book. Just the review. And you are praying while he lectures that your glass is bottomless so you can make it through.
I myself like an across the board reader. Someone who will enjoy the latest W.E.B Griffin book, but, at the same time, he doesn’t cringe at the idea of picking up the latest McCullough history, or rereading a classic..
This is how I tend to read and maybe that is what the point is. Like always looks for like. In love and in reading.
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Quote of the Day
"The first human being who hurled an insult instead of a stone was the founder of civilization." - Attributed to Sigmund Freud (1856-1939)
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