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Wed, 05 Aug 2009 05:29:44 GMT

I have a few updates, though nothing super interesting...

1) I'm quickly becoming obsessed with cookbooks. Now that I've joined the library, I don't buy regular books anymore (unless I get them through PaperBackSwap), I only buy cookbooks. My latest acquisition is Vegetarian Cooking for Everyone, by Deborah Madison. I'm so not a vegetarian, but as the title implies, it doesn't matter. It's got loads of perfectly yummy recipes that happen to be vegetarian that I love (like say, pesto), and if they inspire me to eat more veggies, well so much the better.

2) I'm trying Peet's coffee, which a lot of people worship (including my cousin and Chris Pirillo, whose seminar I attended once -- though he didn't mention his obsession with Peet's at the time). So far I'm impressed. When I brew it correctly (ratio of coffee grounds to water), it leaves no bitter impression. It's just smooth. So far I've only tried their signature Major D(ickason) blend, and I also have their current special, the Guatemala Santa Isabel blend, which I haven't yet opened. I've been making it in my new French press, which I just loooooove so far.

3) I finished rereading HBP and DH, the latter of which I enjoyed much more than I remember enjoying the first time, maybe because I was rushing through it then. I certainly appreciated the details/plot a lot more. One thing though, that's probably been discussed many times already, except by me, is -- how did Dumbledore defeat Grindelwald in a duel, when Grindelwald was in possession of the Elder Wand, the unbeatable-in-a-duel wand? I mean, granted Dumbledore was an exceptional wizard and all that, but isn't that the whole point of a wand that can't be beaten in a duel, that the owner doesn't have to be a great wizard at all? It's never really explained in the book. Did JKR explain it elsewhere, or does anyone have theories or could point me to discussions/threads about this? Just seems like kind of a holey detail. Anyway, I sobbed and sobbed and sobbed through all the Snape stuff. They better not skimp on that in the DH movie(s) or I will be verrah verrah annoyed.

(Subject line is my favorite quote from HBP, and they didn't include it in the movie. :( )

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