Another week has rolled around! This weekend we are having our annual summer bash. Y'all are invited. In honor of the moment, two sentences from Nancy Baggett's The All-American Cookie Book:
Monster cookies came into fashion in the late 1980s and have been populare with the young--and the hungry--ever since. The idea is to turn out single cookies that pack a four- or five-cookie wallop, perhaps to save people the time previously spent going back for seconds, or perhaps so they can claim they ate only one.
I love to bake, and if you need one, fabulous, beautiful cookie cookbook, this is the one I recommend. (You can read my review here.)
Two sentences of my own from this week:The red light turned right. It dimmed, blinked, then went out entirely.
(As usual, if you let us know where your two sentences are posted, we'll put a link at the bottom of the blog post...or you can just put your two bits in the comment section!)
- Pretzel has some thoughts on forgiveness...and bee stings...this week.
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Laura,
Bake? In an oven? Ah, another skill I lack.
Here are the two sentences I wrote this week:
A briefcase can be a real prize for a grab and run guy. In the midst of all the papers, folders and other useless stuff, I’ve hooked cell phones, credit cards, even cash; not to mention that lots of times I get a nice lunch, all neatly wrapped.
And I read:
"The Founders had not planned for the people's voice to be heard in the selection of the president. However, in the nation's second contested presidential election, the popular vote was crucial to the outcome."
These lines are from Adams vs. Jefferson, the Tumultuous Election of 1800 by John Ferling.
Terrie
I didn't write these this week, but they're part of the same, lingering project I'm still working on. Will this week see it done? Great Odin's ghost, I sure hope so.
“I’m so sorry,” Arden said, and felt its insufficiency. Never enough in the face of grief, but it was all anyone had.
And, because the Preston & Child Agent Pendergast novels are one of my guilty pleasures, from The Wheel of Darkness, I read:
Its old stones had been polished by many thousands of hands: people who had come to ask this particular anchorite for wisdom. He was said to have been walled up at the age of twelve.
Oooh. Now to wall myself up and finish this frackin-brack story of my own.
Terrie -
But you have so many other skills. It would be unfair of you to hog that one, too! LOL!!
Clare -
The Anchorites & Anchoresses always fascinated me. I think about how horribly claustrophobic I get inside an MRI machine...
I'm with you. Not claustrophobic, but easily bored and in love with sun and scenery. Never-changing scenery would drive me around the bend. it is a fascinating existence.
Will we be sampling some of those cookie delights? I'll save room.
I have planned for chocolate chip cherry cookies and raspberry-truffle brownies, provided I can get to the store! I want to try adding a little chipotle to the raspberry truffle brownies this time around. Chocolate with chipotle is something I love, and I haven't tried doing it myself.
Oh cookies - I love cookies. But to bake them? I always forget the last two pans because I'm so busy gnawing on the first few that come out so, as always, the last batches are usually "well done" by the time I come out of my cookie - gnawing fog to remember.
My TST is up and ready to roll. :D
I often have that problem, too, Pretzel, especially if it's a BIG batch, so that it seems I've been trading sheets of cookies in and out forever!
Here are my "2" sentences from Lawrence Block's THE BURGLAR ON THE PROWL:
"By 8:45 I was sitting behind the wheel of a bronze-colored Mercury Sable sedan. It was parked with its front bumper about eight feet from the only curbside fire hydrant on Arbor Court. That's closer than the law allows, but that was the least of my worries, because the car was stolen."
My two lines (I'm working on a worksheet for writing short stories):
"TIP: Plop any setting down for now. This sketch gets your fingers and brain working. You can easily change this part later."
Write On!
Nan
You're teasing us, Nan!
Nan! A worksheet? Faboo! I love things like that. I am kind of addicted to them, in fact...
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