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Horse Heaven is basically a book of vignettes that only occasionally interlock, and the real challenge for the reader is keeping all those characters, human and equine, straight. There is Justa Bob, a good-natured gelding who knows how to race, and Epic Steam, a stallion badly in need of a gelding. There is Buddy Crawford, a sleazy trainer who cares more about winning than about the horses (even after he finds Jesus), and Farley Jones, who adheres to The Tibetan Book of Thoroughbred Training ("Do not see any fault anywhere...Do not hanker after signs of progress"). There...
...good location to start scouting for meat cooked rare. I suspect this is to avoid being sued: no one gets food poisoning from overcooked meals. And I'm not sure I would fully trust rare meat in such a situation of mass handling anyway. But the next time, dear reader, you find yourself in a quality restaurant, try ordering rare. Or order fish cheeks, if you can--possibly the best-tasting part of the fish. Even better yet: order tripe or liver...
...return for my valued thoughts, Andy kindly taught me to smoke the pipe he had with him, and so we passed the pipe back and forth over Dean and Rick. (Note to reader: no wacky tabacky with these boys). I practiced my grip, with the three guys as my feedback panel, until I had a satisfactorily feminine form...
...laughable front-page graph, for example, purports to compare Project ADAPT's budget to that of Harvard's faculties. A reader glancing at the graph might conclude that we are spending more each year on ADAPT than on the Law School. This is false. In truth, the graph showed total spending for the multi-year Project ADAPT in one bar, next to separate bars for the annual spending of each of the faculties...
...compelling as the King episode, a number of them are finding a place to be seen. Melisse Shapiro put her erotic thriller, Lip Service (under the pseudonym M.J. Rose), on the Web in 1998 after getting rejected by several publishers. "My goal was to get a couple of thousand readers and go back with a new novel to publishers and show them I had a following," she said. But after promoting her virtual book on woman-friendly websites and selling 150 downloadable copies at $9.95 each, she hocked the jewelry she got from her ex-husband to print...