Strangeness

[herewiss13]

1) Got stung by a bee my knuckle last week (very unpleasant). That whole "needle of fire" metaphor is not hyperbole. Anyway, strange thing was, after the first day, the swelling and itching all happened on the next knuckle down (base, rather than middle). There was still a little lump from the injection, but all the other reactions were one joint removed. I do not understand.

2) Had stroganoff Thursday night. For those unfamiliar, it has noodles. The noodles are medium-sized, ribbon-like and mildly wavy. Among these noodles, as I was eating, I discovered a piece of shell pasta. It had been a new, unopened, bag and the shell pasta wasn't some warped and deformed noodle; it even had the striations you find on shell pasta.

All puzzlement on cross-contamination aside, you don't think about different pasta types being manufactured side-by-side, do you? There's supposed to be a lasagna factory and a spaghetti factory and a fetunccine factory, not one factory making all three. At the very least, the production lines need to be in seperate buildings. It seems unnatural otherwise!


And finally (not so strange) when exactly did a new Mary Russell book come out, and why wasn't I informed? Ran into "The Game" at the library by complete serendipity. It looks quite enjoyable.

Comments

[lizbee.livejournal.com]

I read The Game last week, and really enjoyed it. Look forward to your comments.

[threeoranges.livejournal.com]

Hi! I read THE GAME myself and enjoyed it - King has a flair for fast-paced, gripping action sequences. There was only one thing I didn't quite get, and that was the rusting balcony which nearly crushed them at the bazaar. Was anyone ever established to be behind that? (If they were, my bad! I just want to know if I managed to miss that in my reading.)

And, hi! *waves*

[lizbee.livejournal.com]

I actually suspect that the balcony scene, along with a couple of other loose ends, is set up for the next book. Which, I'm told, will be set in San Francisco, and deal with Mary's family.

*random drive by info post*

[threeoranges.livejournal.com]

Terrific! Thanks for letting me know that I didn't miss anything in my reading; I hope you're right that King will sew it up in the next, she's usually too good a writer to leave threads dangling.