["People Of the Book"]

Of all the different accents Edwina Wren does for the audiobook, I enjoy Hanna's jaunty Australian voice the most. Too bad Geraldine Brooks dwells much in the haggadah's past.

Vienna: dueling scars; suicide and STD being top-ranked causes for mortality

the Fogg: Its founder, Edward Forbes traveled the world, trying to obtain a sample of every known pigment ever used in art, (such as) Indian Yellow, made from the piss of cows fed only on mango leaves.

gold leaf making: beat it and fold it and beat it again, on something it won't stick to, like the soft ground of scoured calf intestine.

"A well-rounded person has no point."