Linden's Pensieve

The 24 in 20-10 Book Challenge is going well! Right now, I’m reading Der Vorleser, Catch-22, and I’ll start Dancing on My Ashes (and here) tomorrow, hopefully with the workbook. (I’m reading three right now mostly because Der Vorleser will take me longer since it’s in German. I don’t want to get behind.) Here’s my [...]

Yum! I just reviewed a great European market on The Springfield Foodie, called Fine European Market, that offers lots of those German goodies that I’ve been missing, everything from good German chocolate like Kinder and Ritter to freshly baked German bread and Senf in tubes. Go check it out!

When I lived with Beth, she often made hummus. I tried it a couple times, and it was tasty! I always wanted to make my own, but you need a food processor. The first thing I made when we finally got one was, of course, hummus.
I never feel guilty when I’m enjoying hummus with some [...]

I’ve set the goal to work through 24 books in 2010, and by the end of February, I’ve completed 5 books, so I’m slightly ahead of schedule. In this post, I’ll share what I thought about another book on my 24 in 20-10 Book Challenge List. You can see the list here, and you can [...]

Linden shares a friend’s blog, Make it Homemade Today, which features recipes for some of your restaurant favorites, homecooked meals, and even non-food items.

Today’s Quick Read is purely visual. No words. Well, you can read the titles, but they are so small on the page compared to the palettes and images, so they don’t really count. Click on over to Wear Palettes and take a peek.
I like this site because I am known for my bad color palettes. [...]

I finished Kafka on the Shore last night, and I have repeat what I said last time about Haruki Murakami being an artist with words. He polishes his craft in this book. The main characters–Kafka, Nakata, Oshima, Hoshino, and even Mimi the Siamese cat–are so well designed, without feeling forced, that I really believed they are real people living in this world. After reading two of Murakami’s books, Kafka on the Shore and What I Talk About When I Talk About Running, he has

Today’s Quick Read is a visual / pseudo-mathematical delight: Indexed. Jessica Hagy posts all sorts of charts and graphs and Venn diagrams that show sometimes funny, sometimes cynical, almost always accurate, and always insightful, observations about the world. Some Indexes are more complex and require more time than others, but most posts can be enjoyed [...]

Google Buzz is all the rage. Or, everyone’s buzzing about Google Buzz. Either way, it’s hot right now. I posted my first take on Google’s Twitter-Facebook-Flickr mashup available directly in Gmail over on Ozarks Bazaar, so go check it out. As a teaser, I’ll tell you my seven reasons, but you’ll have to read the [...]

I know what you’re thinking. “A tuna salad recipe? Really?” But this tuna salad will change your life. It is that delicious.