In a drastic change of mood & topic, here is a list of things that rule:

[extemporally]

1. This vegan apple cake. I was so frustrated at making zero headway re: studying today that I left the library early, vegetated in bed over Chinese takeout, and then got up and made this cake for the party I'm having tomorrow. Baking is fun. This cake rules. (Except you should probably up the sugar content - I found myself having to stab the cake with a fork and drizzle honey all over just to sweeten it.) Also I managed to use up all the cooking apples I had rattling round. Score!

2. Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell. I lost 72 hours of my life reading it last year, and a couple of weeks ago this year I picked it up again, and it is still brilliant. This time I managed to contain my reading in one hour chunks before bed, and I just - love it. All seven hundred and seventy-two pages of it, the history and the magic and the long-winded footnotes, oh my :D also, gender & racial otherness? Very much my cup of tea.

3. You rule. All of you, and I mean it. Thank you for the wonderful, amazing compliments you gave on my last post - they made a hard day so much easier, and thank you for the thousands of other kindnesses I've been the recipient of. ♥

Comments

[verbyna.livejournal.com]

Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell has been on my nightstand for the past three years. I try putting it back on the shelf, but two days later I inevitably pick it up again. It's just so good.

[mrsquizzical.livejournal.com]

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