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"The Sign of Sherlock Holmes! And Cocaine!"
This title was available for free as part of Audible/Amazon's WhisperSync promotion, and the decision to pick up or pass on a classic, free Sherlock Holmes tale was, well, elementary.
The story itself is one of the earlier Holmes books - it's the first to detail his "struggles" with cocaine, and introduces us to Mary Morstan. It's an exciting mystery filled with treasure and villainy that uses the East India Trading Company as a backdrop.
Holmes and Watson themselves are great, of course, and that's in no small part due to the narration of Patrick Tull (of Patrick O'Brien fame). gets a solid handle on the characters of Holmes and Watson, and his narration is very easy on the ears. There are, unfortunately, few minor recording errors that apparently went without noticed (flubbed and clipped lines, etc.), but in general, that didn't detract too much from what was a classic story matched with a very fine reading.
If you like, or are curious at all, about why Sherlock Holmes is now a household name, this is worth checking out. But don't be surprised if, like a drug, it leaves you longing for another fix of the master detective.
"Wicked Fae Fill That Downton Abbey Shaped Hole"
When Dorie Rochart is refused a job as a field scientist based on her gender, she does what anyone who is half-fey would – she makes herself look like a man (Dorian – a nice touch!), and gets the gig. From there on, she reunites with her childhood friend and adopted cousin Tam (who doesn't realize it's Dorie underneath all that Dorian), they're off hunting basilisks and wyvern eggs, and also saving the world with mythology-based science. If this sounds a bit like Indiana Jones, well, it certainly put me in mind of the man with the hat, with the caveat that the University never seems very far away from where the majority of the field work takes place. There may be no hat and fedora, but there continue to be wicked (and perhaps misunderstood) fairies, mythical beasts, adventure, friendship, and romance. In short, Silverblind is a very fun time.
Like Silverblind's predecessors, there's a lot more happening here beneath the skin. The times are slowly changing, and while it may be better to be a woman than it was before, Silverblind points out it's still a pretty crap playing field. In addition to the gender politics, the government is hell bent on hunting the wyvern eggs to extinction, and committing genocide against the faeries. Many of the characters are more complicated than they might first appear – in addition to Dorie and Tam are haunted by events from their the past, and I was particularly fond of Jack (short for Jacqueline) and Stella, two of Dorie's friends, as well as Annika, the beautiful foreign student work in the field, but who has had to fight her own battles to get there.
You don't have to have read the previous volumes in Connolly's Ironskin trilogy to appreciate Silverblind, but it doesn't hurt. Each book follows a different protagonist, and generally stands perfectly well on its own, although they're all connected to each other. Dorie was a child in Ironskin, and Tam was a child in Copperhead. Silverblind is certainly the closing chapter of this series, weaving together threads and characters but also working very well as a standalone adventure for Dorie, Tam, and their friends, rivals, and enemies.
Rosalyn Landor returns to finish out the series, and provides another poised and elegant performance that compliments the story well.
If you're looking for literature to fit that Downton Abbey shaped-hole in your life but packs a little extra punch, ring the bell for these books, and enjoy them with a nice cup of tea.
"Ironskin's Charming, Adventurous, Witty Sister"
Appearances can be deceptive.
There are two sisters. Jane was wounded in an invasion by the fae, and now suffers from a disability in which she is cursed by a supernatural anger, and is a constant outsider, and goes to work as a governess in what appears to be a haunted house in the countryside. Helen is beautiful, married a wealthy aristocrat, and is obsessed with society and its balls and fashions.
If you'd asked me which sister I'd rather read about, I wouldn't have thought twice. Jane sounds far more interesting and engaging. And I did enjoy reading Ironskin. So much, I listened to it as well. So you can imagine my surprise when I loaded Copperhead onto my phone and enjoyed it even more. But like I said, appearances can be deceptive.
Jane disappears from Copperhead early on, while attempting to help convince some of the most prestigious women in society that they have to do away with their fae-glamoured beauty. Helen is forced to take over after Jane's disappearance, to track down the women, and convince them of the danger they're in. A nice twist – some of the women Jane and Helen have to convince are using their supernatural beauty for good – such as celebrity-like spokeswomen for charitable causes.
Copperhead largely shifts the conflict and villainy away from evil faeries to a conspiracy of prominent men in society. Helen's husband is one of these prominent men, though thankfully less of a moustache twirler, and through Helen, we see this group of society (known as Copperhead) do their best to increase their power and retain privilege – mostly by stripping it away from other groups. Women, in particular.
Something I liked about Ironskin was that Jane was essentially a character struggling with a disability, and that anger was eventually portrayed as something that could be righteous. Copperhead is equally infuriated by injustices perpetrated against women – and specifically married women, reminding us that the playing field isn't been equal. What I appreciated most about it, though, was that it makes plain that women don't have to be physically tough and abhor pretty things to be a strong. Helen is an incredibly likeable character I loved getting to know – one who is so much more than meets the eye. All the conflict, wit, desire, and guilt hidden beneath the surface make for a rich character I'd be happy to read more about.
Rosalyn Landor returns, and does a very fine job with the narration, and it seemed had more fun with the story Connolly told this time out. This is partially helped by the supporting characters – but it was in particular fun to hear Helen make friends with Frye and Calenduala, as well as Rook.
Copperhead's romance is both more playful and natural, the supporting characters are more fun at drunken sleepovers, and the adventure isn't afraid to revel in its own glamour and beauty. Like it's protagonist, there's much more happening beneath the surface of Copperhead than what we might've initially been led to believe, and it makes me very eager for what Connolly will do next with Silverblind (the final book in the trilogy), and beyond.
(Originally published at the AudioBookaneers.)
"This Cast Needs to Make This Movie NOW"
I'm a huge Neverwhere fan - the kind that is always pining for any kind of hint or glimmer of the Seven Sisters (ONE DAY WE SHALL HAVE OUR SEQUEL) or film adaptation. This radioplay is nothing short of superb, and a must for Neverwhere fans.
This cast brings London Below to life way better than any I could've fancasted. McAvoy makes Richard not only good and sweet and earnest, but someone you can't help but love. Dormer is the perfect Door to this bizarre land. Harewood and Okonedo lend delicious edges to the Marquis de Carabas and Hunter. Chirstopher Lee's hysterical and a little sad as the Earl. Head is wicked, terrifying fun as Mr. Croup. Cumberbatch is, of course, awesome as Islington.
I could listen to it over and over again.
If you are a Neverwhere fan, you need this adaptation. It's as sweet as the last drop of wine from an extinct Atlantean vineyard.
"Chemically Induced Redemption"
Imagine going to church, taking communion, and as soon as you swallowed the wafer and wine, seeing God right beside you. Or, if not God, an aspect of God – one that you could converse with, argue with, beg, weep with, and scream at. Now, imagine all that if you were an atheist.
Regardless of what you believe or do not believe, as a science fiction fan you have to wonder: short of this miraculous wafer falling from the sky like manna, where is this drug coming from?
In the not too-distant future, anyone with a 3D printer and passable google-fu can print up DIY drugs. When a new drug called Logos starts seeping into the market, giving people a chemically fused Damascus experience, drug lords start acting like music executives, trying to halt the competition however they can. The thing is Logos, also known as Numinous, actually seems to transform sinners into saints, converting them into evangelicals of Logos: people who would lay down their lives for friends and enemies alike – especially if the outcome furthers the gospel of Logos.
Years ago, Lyda Rose was roofied with an overdose of Numinous – the very drug she helped create. It played a part in the death of her wife, stole the child she was pregnant with, led to frequent stays at various mental institutions, and blessed/cursed her with a constant guardian angel she can't kick. When Lyda discovers Numinous has leaked out on the street, she and the angel living inside her head check out of their current mental institution, and hit the road to find out who's been manufacturing Logos.
The road trip Lyda and her friends embark stretches across not only Canada and the United States but also maps free will, redemption, the nature of God, and examines the similarities of religion and substance abuse more explicitly than any other book I can think of (and there are a pretty fair amount of SF/F books that have made that comparison). I appreciate that it seems to treat its characters fairly - a lot of the evangelical-esque characters aren't monsters. They're striving for some kind of redemption - even if it happens to be a chemically induced one.
Also: it's funny as hell, which is kind of surprising for what seems like such a dark book on the cover. But fans of Raising Stony Mayhall will want to check this one out too.
A large part of that is Tavia Gilbert's narration - it's a perfect match for Gregory's prose. Her work here as Lyda, Dr. Gloria, Ollie, and the rest of the gance comes off as intelligent, sharp, witty, and someone you'd want to roadtrip with.
Afterparty is a novel with a dark, chewy center that reminds me quite a bit of William Gibson's later novels, but with a style that cranks up the entertainment factor and laughs making this story way more fun than you'd expect it to be with such heady subject matter.
(Originally posted at The AudioBookaneers)
"You're Not the Only Freak Show in Town!"
This is the story of a private detective who has Tourette's syndrome who is obsessed with trying to figure out who killed his boss. It's mystery novel, but the mystery really takes the backseat to Lionel, a hilarious heartbreak of a protagonist, and one of the most intriguing characters I've come across: Lionel Essrog.
At least, that's how I remembered it. Motherless Brooklyn is a novel I'd read probably a decade ago. It won the National Book Critics Award, and ever since I started listening to audiobooks, it was one I'd been looking forward to hearing. And now – it's FINALLY available to download. So, was it worth the wait?
Without a doubt, yes. As a character, Lionel is still unique. (Just look at that name. Lionel Essrog.) And with that set up, you really have to give Lethem serious credit for that. He could've made this a stupid joke, but he works hard to get underneath Lionel's skin, and show us the man behind the tics. At the same time, he mines the funny – the tics Lionel gets obsessed with EAT ME BAILEY are, well, funny.
Lethem is probably one of my favorite contemporary writers. His prose has a rhythm to it, his characters are quirky perfections, his dialogue is razor sharp and layered. He's also one of the few authors who can make me burst out laughing while I'm reading him. On the page, it all moves and flows with perfection. Unfortunately, I don't feel like it always has that same smoothness to it in audio. It's not choppy, exactly. It's just not as smooth. I don't know how much of that is due to Cantor's narration (which is generally solid), or with the transition of prose to audio.
I can imagine some mystery fans being disappointed that the climax is bigger or louder or more shocking. Well, they can Eat Bailey too. I didn't remember how the mystery panned out at all, and while the unraveling of the mystery is quiet, we get some incredible scenes, locations, and characters that more than make up for it.
Geoffrey Cantor does disaffected New Yorker with ease, and manages to convey both the humor and heartbreak behind Lionel's condition. He'll be describing New York one moment and START SHOUTING the next. It's a good narration, even if Cantor doesn't quite match Lionel's voice in my head.
It's really nice that at long last Motherless Brooklyn is out digitally. It's one of Lethem's best books, and Lethem is one of my favorites, so I consider this a win for Bailey.
(Originally published at the AudioBookaneers.)
"This IS the Han Solo Book You've Been Looking For!"
A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away, I read all the Star Wars books. I stopped right before the New Jedi Order (when I was in college), and since then have only read two - Zahn's Scoundrels and Schreiber's Death Troopers. In general, the Expanded Star Wars Universe became too much of a chore for me - the continuity got too bloated, I heard some of my favorite characters were needlessly killed off, and it just wasn't as much fun as when Zahn's first books came out. So when I heard that James S.A. Corey - the writing duo of Ty Franck and Daniel Abraham who write the kick ass Expanse space operas - were doing a Star Wars book, and that it'd be a stand-alone Han Solo Star Wars books, AND that it'd be set between A New Hope and The Empire Strikes Back, well, I knew I'd have to make the jump to lightspeed and pick this nerf-herder up.
Han Solo and Chewbacca are recruited by the Rebel Alliance to pull out spy Scarlet Hark from her assignment on a planet in the Imperial Core. The extraction doesn't go as simply as planned (their plans are awful). Scarlet has some loose ends to tie up, Han has a price on his head, and the Empire has their sights on a new super weapon. I don't want to give away too much, but suffice it to say blasters are drawn, planets are scorched, and Chewbacca is a far more profane wookie than I ever realized. (We always did wonder what he was saying, right?)
In other words: Franck and Abraham do not disappoint. There were times when I was worried the story was going to take a long time building up to a plot point - say a heist - and then, like the Expanse books, they barrel right into the action, never sacrificing characterization, and move onto the next play. The characters we know feel like they've walked right off the screen, just as we remembered them. And we're introduced to several fascinating new characters: the aforementioned Scarlet Hark, who is as stubborn, gutsy, and wise-cracking as Han; Hunter Maas, an arrogant would-be alpha male who always talks about himself in the third person; and Baasen Ray, a down-on-his-luck smuggler and old friend of Han. Saying too much about any of them would be spoiling the fun, but I do want to say that they were all very well-developed. I was pleased Scarlet never became part of a romantic triangle with Han and Leia - their relationship and camaraderie had a very business casual professional feel to it, playing against the obvious type. But most of all, I was surprised and delighted by the shades of grey displayed by one character. Often, we generally know which side someone is on when they walk onto the screen (or page) in Star Wars. However, one character's journey really surprised me, and it was nice to see that they're can be acts of kindness and grace, even by characters who often came off as an utter bastard. It's a nice bit of characterization, and one I feel like we don't often see in Star Wars.
Is it as good as The Expanse or The Dagger in the Coin books? No. Not even close. But I'd be lying if it wasn't loads of fun, and had me wishing that they'd do another Star Wars book someday, in all their free time. If you like any of their books, and Star Wars, you're gonna get a kick out of this one. It'll make you want to invite your buddies over for beer and an original trilogy marathon. And it'll probably make you want to check out all their other non-Star Wars books too.
(And being a big fan of both Expanse series, and Abraham's Dagger and the Coin series, it's fun to pick out some of their kinks - whether it's where does the Rebel Alliance get their money from, a traveling Opera troupe, a labyrinth-like mad scientist laboratory filled with dead Storm Troopers. The only thing missing is vomit zombies. Basically, if they thought something was cool, and they could use it, they did.)
I've listened to exactly three Star Wars books now, two of which have been narrated by Marc Thompson (no relation). I have to give Thompson credit - it's gotta be hard to come into something like Star Wars where the sound of the characters are pretty ingrained in our minds. In that regard, Thompson is a winner - his Han Solo isn't Harrison Ford, but it's the next best thing. And he gets all the bravado, cockiness, and general scoundrelness across well. His voices for other favorites like Luke and Leia aren't quite as good, but he makes up for it with the supporting cast and characters like Scarlet, Hunter, and Baasen. Where Thompson doesn't work so well is the line-to-line delivery. Often simple actions - like Han picking up a tool to repair the Falcon - are delivered with Shatner-esque forced excitement, and I would've preferred he let the material speak for himself a little more.
The book is jam-packed with the standard sound effects and John Williams score that's have become custom for these things. The F/X are actually kind of fun, but the over-reliance on the John Williams score is distracting. When Han gets into a fistfight with an alien, and the SW soundtrack starts up, some of the tension gets lost for me. That said, it wasn't enough of a distraction to keep me from wanting to press play when I had the chance.
If you've been nostalgic at all about Star Wars, and considered diving into one of the novels - Honor Among Thieves is your ticket to all the charm and excitement that made you fall in love with this scoundrel and his wookie co-pilot from a galaxy far, far away.
(Originally published at the AudioBookaneers)
"Too Many Players, Not Enough Scoundrels"
I was born in 1977, the year of Star Wars. Empire Strikes Back was the first movie I saw in theaters, and I've been a would-be Jedi ever since. When Timothy Zahn's Heir to the Empire series came out, I ate up every page of those books, and I read many of the subsequent books. But around the time the New Jedi Order came out, I got burned out on the Expanded Universe books.
Fast forward to Disney buying Lucasfilm, and (completely coincidentally) Zahn writing a standalone Han Solo's 11 novel. I'd read exactly one SW book in the past decade (the ridiculously fun Death Troopers), so as soon as I heard about this one, I wanted to check it out. I thought it'd be the perfect book to get back into SW – one that wouldn't be overly bogged down by the Expanded Universe continuity, and that would be good old comfort food.
It wasn't bogged down with continuity, but it wasn't too much fun, either. Scoundrels is a "Heist" novel, starring our favorite rogues from the SW galaxy: in particular Han Solo, Chewie, and Lando Calrissian. This is the biggest problem with the book: there are too many players, and not enough of our favorite scoundresl. Han Solo is the mastermind of the heist, and thus – he oversees it all and doesn't do as much as the rest of the players until the very end. Chewie does even less. As the frontman Lando's part is thankfully bigger, but most of the rest of the action falls to characters Zahn created for this book (and a couple pre-existing EU characters), which is a shame. In a book with Han, Chewie, and Lando in an Imperial line-up on the cover, you want Chewie, Lando, and especially Han to steal the show, if not the prize.
My suspension of disbelief was blown pretty early on (and yes, it was set to Anakin midichlorian levels of "High" to begin with) when the characters didn't ask some basic questions about their marks or the job itself, I was disappointed. It might have been forgivable if the pace of the book didn't feel so slow. Perhaps it's my own nostalgia speaking, but it just didn't work as well as Zahn's other Star Wars books. It took too long, and I didn't find a lot of the rest of the team to be very entertaining or developed considering how much time we spent in their heads.
There is some entertainment value – Zahn introduces Han in a scene where someone else shoots first, and Han and Chewie turn the tables. There are some fun twists (especially at the end). And once the action does pick up (about halfway through the book), things become more fun. It just took so long to get to that point – I was literally looking up Star Wars fanfic waiting for the good stuff to kick in. But it takes a looooooong time, and Han Solo just doesn't do enough.
Marc Thompson has a knack for narrating Star Wars, apparently. His Han Solo is flawless, which is a necessity for a book that's supposedly about him, and his Lando is pretty good too. (His Chewabacca is INCREDIBLE. (What? It was soundbytes from the movies? NO, SIR, I REFUSE TO BELIEVE IT.) The production is punctuated by sound effects and the occasional John Williams score, which was much more distracting than the other SW book I'd listened to. Thompson sometimes overplays his line-to-line delivery as well, but I'm not sure I can really fault him for the pace.
I probably will go back and revisit Heir to the Empire at some point, as well as A.C. Crispin's Han Solo trilogy (oh, for an UNABRIDGED AUDIO VERSION!), but overall, it felt like the only thing heisted was my time.
(Originally published at the AudioBookaneers)
"One of the Best SF Books of 2013!"
A long time ago, Breq was part of a consciousness that made up Justice of Toren – one of the Radch Empire's AI starships. She was one of many – an ancillary, a meat puppet, a single aspect of a collective. Then she was betrayed, stripped away from the rest of her consciousness, trapped in a human body, and stranded alone in the universe. Now, she's a displaced and dysfunctional AI, and she's out for revenge.
Wait, I said "she." Here's one of the fun things about this space opera – she isn't necessarily a she. In the Radch Empire, all people are referred to as "she," despite their gender. It's a cool bit of world building, but more importantly – it defies gender conventions and defaults. There are a lot of interesting and fascinating characters in this book. And most of them, we have no idea what gender they are.
It's smart and though-provoking, yes, but Ancillary Justice also manages to be a really fun ride. As an AI who is forced to become a fraction of herself, Breq is one of the most unique protagonists I've ever come across, and she's a lot of fun to route for. The story is split over two timelines – one of Breq as a lone figure seeking out the means for her revenge, the other is her as an aspect of the near omniscient Justice of Toren occupying a conquered planet and people. Seeing how these two storylines crescendo is a blast. If you're a fan of the Expanse books by James S.A. Corey, you'll want to give this one a shot.
I'll admit I was a little concerned at first with Celeste Ciulla's narration. Initially, her delivery felt a bit stilted, almost forced. However, after an hour or two, I came to realize she was a really solid match for a displaced and dysfunctional AI.
Ancillary Justice has already been nominated for a Nebula, BFSA, and won a Kitchie for Best Debut Novel, and it's easy to see why. I'll be very surprised if it doesn't get a nomination for the Hugo. Ancillary Justice is a smart, though-provoking thrill ride of a space opera. It'll nuke your brain from orbit, then send its ancillary meat puppets planetside with blasters – just to make sure.
(Full Disclosure: Ann Leckie is a friend of mine who I've worked with for the past four years at PodCastle, and I first read this book before it had landed an agent or a publishing house. I loved it, so much so that I ended up buying the book when it came out in audio.)
"My New Addiction: The Southern Reach"
It's a simple, classic set-up: A group of explorers head out on an expedition to the mysterious Area X. They have gone through rigorous training that strips much of their identity in hopes of generating unbiased field reports. Instead, they are referred to simply by their scientific professions: Psychologist, Anthropologist, Surveyor, and Biologist. There was a Linguist too, but something happened to her. They are the twelfth expedition. Some of the prior expeditions have been successful. Others have ended in the death of every member on the team. Pretty soon, this latest expedition comes across something that's either a tunnel or a tower – something that wasn't on the maps in their briefings. There is, of course, something very wrong about this tower tunnel. Not long after exploring it, things start to go very wrong for the twelfth expedition.
I'd say the fun starts here, but really – the terrifying fun starts pretty much right away. The expedition is out of its depth from the very first page – before they cross over the border into Area X. It quickly becomes clear that nothing about the expedition or Area X are as these scientists have been led to believe.
It's a simple, classic set-up, but it's written by Jeff VanderMeer, so things are a unique level of intensely, wonderfully, WTFery weird. VanderMeer is simply an incredible writer, his prose popping like mushroom spores in your ears as he leads you in a delightful, dangerous daze across the mysterious, unexplainable landscape of Area X. It's filled with invisible boundaries, spooky doppelgangers, strange creatures, and unexplainable events. It's a primal story of coming to grips with a place impossible to understand – a place just as strange as ourselves. For all its weirdness, it's incredibly accessible, and never dull.
Carolyn McCormick was the narrator of the Hunger Games trilogy, and she does very strong work here. The story is told from the journal entries of the Biologist, and McCormick does an excellent job of coming across as a seemingly detached scientist on assignment, but secretly luring you in with just the right hint of inflections that cut beneath the surface, exposing you to a surprising amount of emotion: fear, love, longing, and the struggle for individuality.
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What do you want from a sequel? Comfort? More of the same? Or simply a continuation? A further exploration that goes somewhere different? There isn't one right or wrong answer. Sometimes it's one thing, sometimes it's something else, sometimes it's a mixture. Tim Powers' Hide Me Among the Graves falls into the latter category - there are similarities to its predecessor, but it is also very much its own book.
You should know upfront that Tim Powers' The Stress of Her Regard is one of (if not my all time) favorite vampire books of all time. It was one of the first things I reviewed here, and it unlike any other vampire story I'd ever read. What was terrifying about it wasn't just the inhuman vampires (though they were), but the way it examined the notions of the muse, as well as success and the arts. It remains to this day one of the most frightening books I've read.
Hide Me Among the Graves includes vampires, and some minor characters return, but it's much more of a dark fantasy adventure than it is dark fantasy horror. It's Doctor Sleep to The Shining. There is plenty of spookiness afoot in séances, ghosts cursed to swim the Thames, and spiritualism. But it never achieves the shocking horror awful lusts of The Stress of Her Regard. It's almost like the second half of Dracula, where Van Helsing organizes Jonathan Harker, Dr. Seward, and the rest of the gang to go a vampire-hunting. There's danger, but it's matched with humor and excitement.
It's also features much more of an ensemble. Where the first book held a relatively tight focus on Michael Crawford (with occasional dalliances into Percy Shelley), the net here is cast much broader. Happily, the ratio of male/female heroes is much more even, which is good. One of the main issues with The Stress of Her Regard is that Mary Shelley (author of Frankenstein) had so little to do, and was pushed to the side for her husband and friends. This time out, we get the poet Christina Rosetti, street smart former prostitute Adelaide McKee, and young Johanna. They're joined by veterinarian John Crawford, poet Dante Gabriel Rosetti, and elderly former explorer and adventurer Edward Trelawney. They're all very different from each other, and due to some of the conflict that arises, the book is surprisingly quite a bit funnier. But that doesn't make this book a comedy by any stretch. There's an unsettling scene early on when teenaged Christina's father essentially forces her to take one of the demonic statues, and sacrificing her to save himself. Many of the characters suffer hellish graveyard sequences and haunted seas. But it's not as disturbing or challenging a novel as The Stress of Her Regard.
Simon Vance is one of my favorite readers in the business, so I was sad he didn't return here. However, Fiona Hardingham narration was nothing short of excellent. This was no small task, as she had to work to differentiate the various characters – who were often in the same place together, or whose narratives jumped from one to the other. McKee in particular was a lot of fun to listen, as was her salty old-dog take on Trelawney (and when the two of them were playing off each other, it was listening bliss). The rest of the characters felt not only like individuals, but the protagonists of their own stories under Hardingham's voice. It's the first time I've listened to Hardingham narrate, but her voice was easy to settle into hearing, and I hope to hear much more of her work.
All in all, Hide Me Among the Graves is a welcome return to Powers dark, mysterious world of vampires, art, and the muse. I'd be happy to go back again if Powers found himself inspired to keep us up late at night again.
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- "Go west, young Meowth, go west, to Hollywood!"
- — Meowth
Meowth is a member of Team Rocket who travels with James and Jessie. In Unova, Meowth briefly left Team Rocket and traveled with Ash and his friends; however, this was later revealed to be a ploy and Meowth returned to Team Rocket. He is one of the few non-Legendary Pokémon that is capable of speaking human language without using telepathy.
Early lifeEdit
Before joining Team Rocket, he was just a normal Meowth living on the streets of Hollywood (AKA "Tinseltown") after he went there searching for fame and fortune.
He joined a gang of street Meowth led by a Persian. They annoyed humans in Tinseltown in a typical alley cat fashion, such as stealing food and rummaging through trash cans. Eventually he met a female Meowth named Meowzie, who he fell in love with. However she rejected him, in favor of the attention of her rich human mistress. Wanting to impress her, Meowth began learning to become more human-like. With a great amount of time and effort, Meowth learned to speak human language (with a New York accent) and walk upright. However all his efforts backfired, as he was again rejected by Meowzie, who now saw him as a freak. With his heart now broken, he decided to join Team Rocket (mainly due to the fact that the word "Rocket" was the first word he learned to speak and understood its meaning).
According to Meowth (himself), he claims to have been Boss Giovanni's personal pet (or "Top Cat"). He was later replaced by a Persian, the evolved form of Meowth, possibly due to Meowth's inability to learn Pay Day and Giovanni's favoring of rare and powerful Pokémon.
Partnership with Jessie and JamesEdit
Eventually Meowth was assigned by Giovanni to work alongside Jessie and James. Though he often bickers with the duo (possibly due to his belief that he is their superior/boss), he bonds with them. After their first run in with Ash Ketchum and his Pikachu, they become obsessed with stealing Ash's Pikachu and presenting it to Giovanni. Meowth also believes that by catching Pikachu, he can regain Giovanni's favor and his position as his "Top Cat".
As of his, Jessie and James' promotion and transfer to Unova, Meowth has become a highly skilled stealth artist, an excellent negotiator and is often successful in many missions with his team-mates to the point of the trio becoming a serious enemy for Ash and co. The trio were key in Team Rocket's Meteonite plan, taking order directly from Giovanni himself as well as his secretary. Meowth and his team-mates worked together with Pierce and met Doctor Zager.
Once the plan culminated, Meowth and his team-mates were asked to be as they please in Unova, so they continued working hard to do Team Rocket good and now work closely with Zager. Ash has also become less important to them but they will still antagonize him if he interferes in one of their plans.
During a mission in Unova, Meowth was fired from Team Rocket. After he was fired, he was found by Ash and Co. being beaten by a wild Scrafty. He then decided to travel with Ash and help them on their quest. Later, Iris tried to catch him, but failed to do so. Meowth later reveals that his expulsion from Team Rocket was nothing but a ploy to take Ash and his friends off guard whilst Team Rocket stole hundreds of Pokémon from Nimbasa City's grand Pokémon Center. This plan was foiled by Ash and company and Meowth rejoined his true allies Jessie and James.
Meowth is loyal to his group (Jessie and James), and never lets a few fights get in his way of being friends with them. He acts like he's the boss and the leader of them, being as he builds all the contraptions and thinks of all the plans. Meowth is very good at lying, as he often tricks Ash and company to believe he's on their side. Pikachu is the only one who doubts Meowth's loyalty because he always seemed to betray them. It was shown with Meowzie that Meowth had a heart and if he wasn't convinced by Team Rocket, he would be a normal Meowth that didn't care at all for stealing Pokemon.
Known movesEdit
Move | Episode |
Fury Swipes + | Ash Catches a Pokémon |
Scratch | Challenge of the Samurai |
Bite | The Path to the Pokémon League |
Night Slash | Jumping Rocket Ship!* |
+ indicates this Pokémon used this move recently.* - indicates this Pokémon normally can't use this move. |
Improvised MoveEdit
Voice ActorsEdit
- Inuko Inuyama (Japanese)
- Nathan Price (English; IL002-IL017,IL019-IL031)
- Maddie Blaustein (English; IL018, IL032-AG145, Movies 1 - 8)
- Jimmy Zoppi (English; AG146-Present, Movie 9 - present)
- Charis Grigoropoulos (Greek)
- Jan Nonhof (Dutch; IL002-AG104)
- Bas Keijzer (Dutch; AG092-present)
- Meowth learned how to speak because he wished to win Meowzie's heart. However, this attempt failed, as she saw him as unusual.
- In IL018: Beauty and the Beach, Meowth was voiced by Maddie Blaustein, since the episode aired in America when she took over for Nathan Price.
- A trend Meowth has in the anime is that he falls in love with female cat-like Pokémon: in Kanto, before he met Jessie and James, he fell in love with a female Meowth named Meowzie, in Hoenn he fell in love with May's Skitty and in Sinnoh he fell in love with a female Glameow. In Unova he fell in love with a male Purrloin who he and Ash's Oshawott both thought was female. Also, in the short "Eevee and Friends" he fell for Espeon, Glaceon and Leafeon.
- It appears that Meowth also falls in love with Meloetta in "Meloetta's Glittery Recital" along with Ash's Oshawott.
- Meowth is jealous of Giovanni's Persian and has a desire to fill in for it.
- Meowth acts as a translator for Team Rocket and sometimes Ash and his friends, translating what other Pokémon are saying.
- He was allowed to go to the Unova region despite being a Kanto Pokémon as he was more of a regular Team Rocket member than a Pokémon.
- Meowth has been known to break the fourth wall several times, his partners have been known to do it a few times too.
- It has been revealed that Meowth is still a wild Pokémon as Pokéballs are able to grab him, but none have successfully captured him as none of the trainers who threw the Pokéballs fought and weakened him first.
- The first time that he said Ash's name was in BW048 when he was translating Pikachu. Also, it is the last episode that features a whole episode that Meowth was with Ash and the crew.
- Meowth doesn't seem to know much about type matchup, as in Gotta Catch Ya Later, he tried to attack a bunch of Haunter with Fury Swipes, which would have no effect, and then, was scared by Night Shade, which would not affect him as a Normal type.
- He, Gastly, and Slowking are currently the only Pokémon that can talk without using telepathy.
- Ironically, despite being in most Pokémon episodes (second only to Ash's Pikachu), he did not evolve yet. This is due to the fact he rarely fights.
- ^ IL044: The Problem with Paras, Meowth fell in love with Cassandra


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Drayton Manor Zoo is a fascinating place to explore with 15 acres of open plan zoo home to over 100 animals from all over the world including endangered species.
Drayton Manor Zoo is a fascinating place to explore with 15 acres of open plan zoo home to over 100 animals from all over the world including endangered species.
This spring we are introducing our very own Zoo Club for any animal enthusiasts aged between 8 – 12 years old.
Our fantastic new zoo club will run for 6 consecutive Saturdays, from 30 May until 4 July 2015: 9.30am – 12.30pm.
This opportunity is for children with a passion for animals, who are interested in zoo keeping or would like to experience being up close and personal with a range of different animal species.
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During these sessions your child will have the chance to enjoy engaging activities such as preparing meals for our reptiles and monkeys, making fun food enrichment for our black leopards, mucking out our kangaroo and reindeer enclosures, and getting hands on with snakes, lizards and bugs! You will learn all about these incredible animals and what it is like to care for them.
The cost for this experience is just £20 per session or £100 for all 6 club sessions. A super Drayton Manor goodie bag is also available for those children that attend all 6 sessions.
This club has a limited number of places which are available on a first come, first served basis. Don't miss out! To book this experience please contact Gemma in our Discovery Centre. Call 01827 252436 or email firstname.lastname@example.com for more details.
While working hard to conserve endangered species worldwide it is easy to over look what's on our own doorstep. Here at Drayton we have projects aiming to conserve the biodiversity of the local area.
Without regular maintenance woodlands can deteriorate and lead to limited biodiversity. Many native species can be lost to poor woodland maintenance such as overcrowding trees; leading to light reduction.
Team members from the zoo department are currently involved in restoring 40 acres of beautiful land on the outskirts of the Drayton estate. The mixed habitat land contains ponds, streams, woodland and meadow areas.
The team have put together a management plan for the piece of land that will:
Work is currently underway with the aid of volunteers from the community. The team have started the project in the woodland. This includes:
The team have been lucky enough to have observed evidence of a number of visitors to the area: A large range of butterflies and moths, a wide range of bird species and several species of bat. There is also evidence of deer, stoats, foxes and some resident badgers.
To provide a beautiful and tranquil recreational wildlife area. This area will contain pathways, information signs and wildlife hides. It will be ideal for students, school groups and the public looking to study and enjoy wildlife. We hope to hold public events including: tree planting, bird watching, bug hunting, bat and moth nights and guided walks.
Please click more to see what we are doing regarding Palm Oil.
Drayton Manor Park Catering Department currently sell a small selection of products that contain palm oil.
Palm oil and palm kernel oil are derived from the fruit and seed (or kernel) of oil palm trees. Palm (kernel) oil is widely used as a raw material in the manufacture of many food products, as well as non-food products, such as cosmetics and cleaning products.
Palm oil production is now recognised as a cause of substantial and irreversible damage to the natural environment when not managed sustainably, with many bio-diverse rainforests and indigenous people placed at risk by the rapid expansion of palm oil plantations.
In response to this development, the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) initiated the formation of the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil in 2004. The objective of this multi-stakeholder group is to define and control global standards for the sustainable production of palm oil.
Drayton Manor Park have decided to obtain products only from suppliers who ensure all palm oil contained in their products come from either certified sustainable sources or support sustainable production through a programme such as GreenPalm. We aim to reach this goal by 2016, but of course, we'll review this timetable regularly, to take into account global availability of certified sustainable palm oil and its derivatives.
GreenPalm is a certificate trading programme which is designed to tackle the environmental and social problems created by the production of palm oil. GreenPalm works by enabling a financial premium to be earned by producers who can prove they are environmentally and socially responsible, and who develop plans to continually improve their operations. Thus, by using products covered by the GreenPalm programme, we are rewarding palm oil producers for working in a sustainable and responsible way. All of the cooking oil used in our catering outlets is from a supplier who purchase GreenPalm certificates to cover 100% of their palm oil used.
During our move to sustainable sources of palm oil, we'll make sure that there's never any compromise on the safety, quality and value of any of our products. We'll also have information available upon request on all our products containing palm oil. We have a database in place which enables us to monitor the use of palm oil across all of our products.
Drayton Manor Park is a very small user of palm oil. However, we know we can only help to drive global change and achieve our goals by working closely with other major suppliers.
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World Parrot Trust | As a leader in parrot conservation and welfare, the World Parrot Trust works with parrot enthusiasts, researchers, local communities and government leaders to encourage effective solutions that protect parrots |
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Orangutan Protection Foundation | The Orangutan Protection Foundation supports the largest primate rescue and rehabilitation organisation in the world today operated by BOS Foundation. |
Gain insight into the unique characters of many of the animals and go behind the scenes on this amazing opportunity.
Spend a day with our keepers finding out more about the species they look after and even help with some of the feeding and of course the cleaning out!
Please note the minimum age for Keeper for the Day is 14 years old.
Price: £100 donation to one of our animal charities.
Make your day extra special by spending some time with your favourite animal. A chance to spend 20 minutes getting up close and personal with them (minimum age is 10 years old).
Experiences include:
Price: £30 donation to one of our animal charities
Oliver and Esme spent the day in the zoo with their parents and got to see all manner of creepy crawlies.They spent time with Adam our experienced reptile keeper who took them into the Discovery Centre were they got to handle cockroaches, bugs and lizards. Oliver and Esme kept Adam on his toes with lots of question but the funniest moment came after the Millipede weed on Esme who then spent time drawing the experience for the Zoo Managers. Both children had a great day and said they will return when they are old enough to take part in of Keeper For The Day.
Adopt an Animal
Why not join our adopt an animal scheme.
Give a friend or relative a gift with a difference-and make a real contribution to conservation!
For a donation of £35 (1 year):
A personalised certificate of adoption
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A general profile about your adopted animal
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If the certificate has to be made out to someone other than the purchaser, please indicate clearly the name required on the certificate and where it should be sent.
All money raised from animal adoptions will be used for conservation and education programmes within the zoo.
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Each pass gives one free admission to visit your adopted animal.
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Environmental enrichment is given to animals as a way of providing and increasing the stimuli of their environment for the animal to express natural species specific behavior in captivity. Enrichment allows the animal to exercise, explore their enclosure and to enhance their well-being.
Food related: Using food to encourage natural behaviors is the most recognized form of enrichment. For example hiding food around the enclosures or inside boxes are both simple ideas.
Sensory: Using the five senses; sight, sound, touch, smell and taste. A common sensory enrichment is a sack filled with hay that has been scented with a perfume which is very popular with our Black Leopards!
Novel Objects: Anything that is new to the enclosure. This can be as simple as a new branch or hammock. Novel objects can also be linked with food enrichment such as meat inside a filled sack or cardboard box.
Here's one of our white cockatoo's enjoying his Christmas enrichment - a present filled with nuts and seeds.
Here's a video of our adorable meerkats enjoying their Christmas enrichment:
Although zoo keeping can be extremely rewarding it is worth remembering the reality of a zoo keeper's life! A day in a life of a zoo keeper is very demanding with work being physical, dirty, often repetitive and sometimes sad. Your love for animals cannot be sentimental.
Lisa is one of our zoo keepers who is responsible for half of the animals on the exotic paddock section. She looks after animals such as Tapirs, Flamingos, Capybara's and Red Squirrels.
What is the best part of your job?
There are many parts of my job that I truly love. The interaction with the animals is amazing; some of the animals are really affectionate like the tapirs who love having a tickle. Every day we provide enrichment for our animals, watching them enjoy our hard work makes it all worthwhile.
What is the hardest part of your job?
There are many areas of the job that are hard, but for different reasons. The work can be really physically heavy; I always get home from work exhausted! The other really hard thing is when an animal has to be put to sleep, you have to remember that the most important thing is the animals welfare not your own feelings.
What is the first thing you do in the morning?
We start off by feeding all the animals, it is really important to take this opportunity to check all the animals are healthy. We then get on with the dirty job of cleaning the enclosures.
Lisa's route to becoming a Zoo Keeper
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Joyce Roberts is a Zoo Manager at Drayton Manor Zoo. She has a wealth of experience and has worked from the bottom, through the ranks to the top. She has worked on every section of the zoo and really knows what it takes to be a zoo keeper.
What skills make Lisa a valuable member of the team?
Lisa is extremely hard working, an essential quality for being a zoo keeper. The other great thing about Lisa is she is keen to "get stuck in!" she is willing to get her hands dirty and get the job done.
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There are only limited zoo keeper jobs out there and many people who want them, so you need to shine. Getting as much experience is essential and a lot of determination!
Spend a day with our keepers finding out more about the species they look after and even help with some of the feeding and of course the cleaning out!
Please note the minimum age for Keeper for the Day is 14 years old.
Price: £100 donation to one of our animal charities.
For all work experience enquiries, please email email@example.com or send applications via post to: FAO Zoo Management, Drayton Manor Park, Nr Tamworth, Staffs, B78 3TW
A Meerkat is a small mammal and is part of the mongoose family. They originate from the South African Kalahari dessert. A group of meerkats is usually called a mob which can have up to 40 members in the wild. Within each mob there is always a dominant male and female.
Our group of meerkats consists of 12 with 4 young meerkats, the newest editions to the mob, 'Kenya' and 'Mkali' born on the 14th of September 2011. They are getting on really well and developing their own personalities.
Each morning we will feed the meerkats fruit and veg, they then get their scatter feed of meal worms in the afternoon and then eggs, chicks, mice and insects in the evening. Meerkats can live up to 15 years of age and our oldest meerkat is approximately 7 years old. Aja is our dominant female in this group and usually the alpha pair will be the only pair to breed in the mob. Whilst the alpha pair will breed, no other meerkats will.
Aja will be the first one on your knee after food and attention and will be seen chasing off the other meerkats whilst she gets her food so you have to be careful with her. Meerkats are very sociable and they each carry out their own role to look after the mob. Some of these roles consist of baby siting youngsters, hunters who hunt for the food and finally some have sentry duty where they act as look-outs will keep an eye out for predators. This is where they stand tall on high platforms looking out for prey that could threaten them.They communicate by making a murmuring or quiet barking sound to inform other members of the mob of what they have found. Meerkats use their tail to help them balance when standing up high on their legs and for signalling to other mob members.
Baby meerkats will stay in burrows under-ground with their baby sitters until they are at least 3-4 weeks days old.
At Drayton Manor we encourage college, undergraduate and postgraduate students to carry out research projects based in our zoo.
Research can range from Animal Behaviour to Environmental Enrichment. Research is important to us as a zoo, as it allows us to understand how to provide the animals with the best level of care possible, and make sure that our animals are both physically and mentally healthy.
Some animals at Drayton Manor Zoo; Lar Gibbons, Ringtail Lemurs, Marmosets and Tamarins, Brazilian Tapirs, Northern Lynxes, Fishing Cats, Scottish Wildcats, Meerkats, Snakes, Tortoises and Turtles, Parrots, Birds of Prey, African Crested Porcupines and many more.
If you would like to carry out research at Drayton Manor Zoo, we would encourage you to read through our research guidelines as well as the research guidelines published by BIAZA* (www.biaza.org.uk) first.
If you have any questions about conducting a research project at Drayton Manor Zoo or any other queries relating to research please feel free to contact Anne Nelson, Zoo Administrator by email;email@example.com
Research Proposal Form
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*Drayton Manor Zoo is a member of BIAZA - The British and Irish association of zoos and aquariums.
This is a registered charity working together for wildlife.
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I got an e-mail the other day from Robyn of the awesome website Horror Blips asking me what my one achilles heel was when it came to horror movies. In other words, what one thing/character/etc. always manages to scare me whenever it's seen in a horror movie. The reason she asked is because she was working on a post about the individual weaknesses of horror bloggers, as it pertains to the genre we all love and dedicate ourselves to. Well that post, which includes participation from yours truly and a few other fellow horror bloggers, has been completed and I thought i'd share it on here as it's a very interesting and fun little read. We might be all about horror, but we all have that one thing that reduces us to frightened little children! You can check out the list over at Horror Blips (with pictures) or read the entire post below.
While it might seem that true horror fans are unscareable, they all have their soft spot. Even Superman has Kryptonite right? For me, movies that feature ventriloquist dummies are off my tolerable scale. Something about the eyes, and the fact that they seem like they're alive, when they aren't, and then they do come to life...it gives me the creeps.
We wanted to know what horror bloggers claimed as their own personal Achilles heel. What makes them squirm or scream every time? Check out their answers below, you might be surprised to find out what it takes to freak out the un-freakable.
Mike Snoonian, All Things Horror :
If there's a sure-fire type of fright flick that keeps me up into the wee hours of the night, it's anything dealing with tightly claustrophobic settings and premature burial. There's something about viewing someone trapped in a confined space, barely able to move or breathe that gets my heart racing and nerves twitchy. When watching a scene of this type, I put myself in the character's place, pinned in a pine box or hole in the ground, the air growing staler and thinner until it finally runs out, leaving me gasping for my last breath alone in pitch blackness. That's why "The Descent" remains one of the scariest theater experiences of my life. Even if the cave dwellers had never been introduced, the story of the women trapped and lost in pitch-blackness with the constant threat of the walls collapsing around them was more than enough to leave me sweating in my seat.
B-J C, Day of the Woman :
For some reason, I've always been really uneasy with dead children. My mother has run a daycare out of our home for years, so whenever Michael Myers chased down Jamie Lloyd, or when little Gage dies in "Pet Sematary," it always really really bothered me. As far as something that I see constantly, I'm really bad with eye injuries. Eye gouging, stabbing, bleeding, anything of the sort always makes me squirm. The scene in "Opera" is pure torture for me as well as the "Zombi 2" infamous wood to the eye scene
Stacie Ponder, Final Girl :
I'm a total sucker for possession movies. It doesn't matter if it's a low-budget 10th generation Exorcist rip-off, I'm gonna be creeped out. It's not the religious angle that gets to me — I'm not a particularly religious person — it's more of an aesthetic thing. Weird eyes, crusty skin, oozing liquids, barfed-up pea soup, and a deep demonic voice are all it takes for me to freak. I guess it's just a visceral reaction, because the people who get possessed in these movies don't ever do much except lay around in bed all day, stinkin' up the joint and cussin' up a storm. No matter! Even the lowest movies on the possession totem pole work for me.
Johnny, Freddy In Space :
My one Achilles heel when it comes to horror is without question Zelda from "Pet Sematary." Movies don't scare me too often and it's even rarer that characters themselves scare me, but Zelda always has and always will put the fear in me. Lock me in a room with Freddy Krueger, a zombie, a ghost, or the devil himself — I'll calmly assess the situation and find a way out alive. Lock me in a room with Zelda and I will die of fright before she can ever even lay a finger on me!
BC, Horror Movie a Day :
Fish and other, smaller water creatures. Sharks are OK, but you put a snapper turtle or a piranha in a movie, you can guarantee that I'm going to get unsettled. Even if they aren't the "villains" of the film, if they just show a fish doing that pucker thing with his mouth in someone's fish tank or whatever, I feel uneasy.
I also used to be afraid of clowns, but so many terrible killer clown horror movies have actually vaporized my fear.
Monster Scholar, Monster Land :
My horror Achilles heel would have to be disembowelment and/or vivisection. It's been a hot button for me ever since I ate a bad yogurt parfait and had nightmares about someone cutting me open and removing my organs with toothpicks. This initial fear was only made worse by seeing "House of a Thousand Corpses" as a teenager and watching Dr. Satan perform gruesome surgery on his live victims. Yuck.
Becky Sayers, The Horror Effect :
Home invasion films get under my skin. Sometimes it takes the hard-hitting intensity of a movie like "Inside" to terrify me, but other times the simplest slasher can make me uncomfortable. Perhaps it roots back to my indoctrination into the horror genre with "Halloween." I remember trying to sleep after watching John Carpenter's masterpiece for the first time. My bed was situated against a wall, which I faced, leaving my back exposed to the empty room. I kept imagining that Michael Myers was standing behind me, his pallid mask hovering like a ghost in the darkness. However, my fear of the home invasion might be based on something more elementary. I grew up on 10-forested acres in a rural area of Washington state. There was no next-door neighbor. There were no paved roads for a mile. If someone were to prey on my childhood home, it might resemble scenes found in "The Strangers" or "Them." Whatever the circumstance, it is horrifying to imagine that you are not safe in your own residence. Absolutely no one wants to wake up to the sound of unknown footsteps downstairs or to the sight of a shadowy figure leaning over the bedside.
Jeff, The Jaded Viewer :
That's a very interesting topic. I gotta admit, I get the uber shivers from creepy crawlies, swarms of bugs movies and killer parasites. You know the movies, like "Splinter," "The Thaw," "The Ruins," "Slither" and don't get me started about "Arachnophobia." I love these movies but when I see a horde of bugs or parasites on the move, it gives me chills. I start squirming and I get the feeling these creepy crawlies are attacking me.
Awesome job, Robyn, and thanks for inviting me to be a part of this!
Leave a comment with your own personal horror achilles heels!


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Samosas-Quick and Easy Recipe
I bought wonton wrappers from an american store and filled each of them with spicy potato mixture and deep fried till golden brown. Making Samosas can't be any easier than this.
Makes about 25 samosas
For filling:
Oil-1 tbsp
Jeera-1 tsp
Garlic-2 pods
Turmeric powder-1/4 tsp
Chilli powder
Kitchen king masala/garam masala powder-3/4 tsp
Peas-a handful
Coriander leaves-a handful
For outer cover:
Store bought wonton wrappers-25
To make the filling:
Pressure cook the potatoes. Peel the skin and mash well.
Heat oil in a pan. Add jeera. When it crackles, Add chopped garlic and fry for a minute.
Add rest of the ingredients and mix well. Fry for 2-3 minutes. The mixture should be dry.
To assemble:
Thaw the wrappers.
Place some potato filling in the center.
Lightly wet the open edges of the wrapper with a drop of water and fold it into a triangle. Seal well.
Repeat these steps for other wrappers.
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After a long leave of Absence, I have decided to return to modeling.
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Cranberry and Pistachio White Chocolate Bark
I have been seeing recipes for bark since I started food blogging and I have always wanted to try making some. Bark seems to be pretty simple in concept, being chocolate that is melted and then topped with goodies. After the chocolate has cooled it is broken into pieces that I guess resemble pieces of bark. With the cranberry, pistachio and white chocolate combo still fresh on my mind I figured that it was the perfect time to try making some holiday bark. I decided to mix the cranberries and pistachios into the melted chocolate rather than just sprinkling them on top as I figured the bark would hold together better. The cranberry, pistachio and white chocolate bark turned out great! I used some good quality white chocolate that was nice and creamy and it felt like it was just melting in your mouth and it went perfectly with the cranberries and pistachios.
Given the simple concept of bark, there are near endless possibilities. Peppermint or candy cane bark seems to be another popular bark recipe around the holidays. A while ago when I was having trouble finding the bacon chocolate bar that I had heard about I was seriously considering melting down some good dark chocolate and making some bacon bark! Bacon bark aside, I am looking forward to experimenting with bark some more.
Cranberry and Pistachio White Chocolate Bark
(makes 24+ pieces)Printable Recipe
1 pound white Chocolate (chopped)
1 cup dried cranberries
1 cup pistachios
1. Melt the chocolate in a double boiler.
2. Mix in the cranberries and pistachios.
2. Pour the chocolate into a parchment paper lined baking sheet and smooth it out.
3. Let cool and set completely on the counter or in the fridge.
4. Break into pieces and enjoy.
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