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adrian_turtle made a leek and squash risotto for supper, and it was very good. It contains short-grain rice, broth, leeks, butternut squash, arugula, and I think garlic powder. It was topped with candied pecans, some pieces of squash, and leek-flavored oil. Most of the squash was cooked with the rice, to dissolve and make the risotto rich and creamy. The combination of ingredients gave the dish plenty of umami; I didn't miss the cheese that's typically added to risotto.![[syndicated profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/feed.png){kind=small}
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andrewducker at 12:00pm on 10/10/2025 under echr, israel, lgbt, links, nhs, ohforfuckssake, palestine, polls, propaganda, scotland, suicide, transgender, uk, video, voting, war
English delapidation was... the blistered formica on the tables of a seafront cafe. Derelict gift shops and thrift shops with whitewashed windows. A pub with steel plates over its doors. Cracked, pebble-dashed sheters along the promenade, roosted by gulls. [loc. 168]
I've enjoyed Hurley's previous novels (The Loney, Starve Acre, Devil's Day -- I note that I read all those in the space of two months!) but found Saltwash thoroughly depressing: bleak, nihilistic and devoid of joy. The setting (the eponymous Northern seaside town in November, delapidated and down on its luck) is dispiriting, and the protagonist is dying of cancer and raddled by guilt.( Read more... )
disappointedandrewducker at 08:51am on 10/10/2025
'I was finished. I wanted time to stop, and to let me stop with it. And I wanted revenge.
I ... said to the land, 'Bury me, and rise up. Rise up and crush them all.' [loc. 5131]
Rereads, after reading Kings of This World -- which is set in the same alt-Aotearoa-New Zealand, rather later than the Dreamhunter duet, which begins in 1906. My original reviews from (OMG) 2005 and 2007 are here: The Rainbow Opera and The Dream Quake.
The link points to the first of two volumes: the second has only just become available on Amazon.
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thoughtfulffutures at 11:48am on 09/10/2025
There are genuine ruins (beware tourist traps) here and there. Thin pillars soaring, levelled foundations crumbling, cracked urns whispering of spilled dusts -- all the Martian dreams that old Mars denied to mankind. [loc. 53]
Another reread, when I was (unsuspectingly) coming down with a migraine: I last read this in the last millennium, and had forgotten much of it. It's a short novel, an SF vampire romance set on Novo Mars -- like original Mars, but pink rather than red, with rapid sunsets and mutated earth-import flora and fauna.
The novel opens with Sabella Quey receiving an invitation to her aunt's funeral. There's an ominous bequest (her aunt was a devout Christian Revivalist, and knew about Sabella's unsavoury youth) and a gorgeous young man who tracks Sabella back to her isolated home, and does not question her about her aversion to sunlight, or the bottles of red juice ('pomegranate and tomato juice... my physician makes it up for me') in the fridge.
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sickffutures at 07:11pm on 08/10/2025
andrewducker at 12:00pm on 08/10/2025 under drugs, electricity, greenparty, infrastructure, iran, legalisation, links, nuclearweapons, planning, thefuture, ukandrewducker at 12:00pm on 07/10/2025 under australia, bigotry, coal, edinburgh, electricity, germany, goodnews, healthcare, housing, lgbt, links, pubs, regulation, renewables, solarpower, transgender, uk
I think it might be autumn.
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