2013-01-03

redbird: full bookshelves and table in a library (books)
2013-01-03 09:06 am
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Wednesday reading meme

Posting slightly late:

What did you recently finish reading?
Magic or Madness, by Justine Larbalestier
Infidel, by Kameron Hurley
The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate, by Jacqueline Kelly. More precisely, I just finished having this read to me: [personal profile] adrian_turtle likes to read aloud to me, and I like being read to, and this was our most recently read-aloud book, which we both liked a lot.

What are you currently reading?
Magic Lessons, by Justine Larbalestier
Mr. Justice Raffles, by E. W. Hornung

What do you think you'll read next?
I'm in mid-trilogy with both Hurley and Larbalestier, so the third volume of one of those is likely.
redbird: closeup photo of an apricot (apricot)
2013-01-03 01:51 pm
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Food: sprats

Today's lunch was sprats: more specifically, "smoked Riga sprats in oil." I liked them.

The label tells me that the ingredients are sprats and vegetable oil (either rapeseed or soybean, and salt, and that they are imported from Latvia. So, small fish (smaller than sardines in fact), with skin and tails (I didn't eat the tails). I suspect there are some bones in there, too. The taste is closer to tinned sardines (fish plus vegetable oil) than to most smoked fish, but I think the smoking process added something.

I may look for these again: they were an impulse purchase, found next to the cash register at a market I go to every few months.