From: "Madeleine Yeh" <myeh at wap.org>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Has anyone read any good books lately?
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>
Date: Fri, 25 Mar 2005 10:49:35 -0500
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>

On Thu, 24 Mar 2005 23:20:57 -0500
  "Mike B." <omni at omniphile.com> wrote:
> At 10:49 PM 3/24/05 -0500, Ernest Lilley wrote:
>>I like a certain amount of the mundane in books. I'm sort
>>of a fan of
>>exposition too, handled right...as for food, my favorite
>>parts of Nero Wolfe
>>were the dining scenes.
>>
>>Ernest Lilley
>
> I'm the exact opposite...I like the strange and
>wonderful in books (and
> friends ;-) and if they leave out eating entirely, it's
>fine with me.
>
    No, no you are all missing the point.  The book should
be so engrossing that I am not interested in eating or
drinking or anything else but the book.
    I have a Nero Wolfe cookbook and a "Aubrey and
Maturin" cookbook, but that comes after reading the
stories.
   Madeleine