More about Meg Gardiner

Savoring the frenzy from afar.

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The bread tasted lip-smacking, esp. for a rank beginner's loaf. We'll see what happens next. Bean soup had an intereting complex flavor that intrigued enough to insist on seconds. Tonight I made my 200+ year old corn bread recipe to eat with it. No flour, no sugar. Stone ground corn meal. Not for wimps or New Englanders who insist theirs be on the sweet side of sugar.

Run, don't walk to see the German film, Lives of Others. Truly excellent. And historically true, as to the Stasi hounding the artists. Lots of nice touches. It will break your heart, too.

Onward, film-wise, to England and Clive Owen and Julianna Moore and Children of Men. I don't think we can make all the nominees before the awards. Most of them are "downers," too, except for Little Miss Sunshine. With a name like that, it would have to end well.

Still working on the synopsis of World of Mirrors, which by the way takes place just after the Lives of Others. I might hope to ride in on the coatails, but I don't, actually. The synopsis is not getting any easier. Very very hard to squash 500 pages into 2. Yikes!

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