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[Leanna Perr]

Ilove Nevada Barr books. The Anna Pigeon series is so fun, especially for national park lovers, which I am. I started this post series to help not only myself keep track of book series in order, but everyone else out there that has to look it up every time they see one of the books at a used book store or little free library.

Whichever I read first, I loved it and had to read the other. Now, whenever we go to national parks, the first thing I look for in the visitor center is the books to see if there are any of the Nevada Barr books.

Sometimes I read them right away and other times I end up saving them for later. But now, writing this, I want to catch up on them! Until then, this will have to do. So here they are, the Anna Pigeon books in order.

Nope! I read them as I find them in parks which I think is more fun. Of course, you can read them in order, there are some storylines that stretch throughout the series but they can be read as standalone no problem.

There you have it, the Nevada Barr Anna Pigeon book series in order and anything else you may or may not have wanted to know about them. If you read any of them, let me know which and what you think of it!

Now, in the span of a few months, two indie bookstores are filling that void: the recently opened Taylor & Co. Books is run by local Andrew Colarusso, and in August, husband and wife former booksellers Davi Marra and Briana Parker will open Lofty Pigeon Books.

Is the character, Anna Pigeon, based on anyone? She is based on me -- except she is taller and stronger and smarter and braver. We've evolved in different ways over the years, so now she is less like me. While Anna Pigeon battled alcohol dependence and slowly became more of a work-oriented loner, I've grown more whimsical, more lackadaisical, lazier, happier. I've rejoined humanity, and Anna had no intention of getting near it, though that, too, is changing now that she's married Paul.

Were you flexing your writing muscles and seeking a new challenge, or has this devious plot been simmering in the back of your brain for a long time? This book has been a long time in the writing. The plot has been simmering in the back of my mind for nearly twenty years but was unsuited to any sort of adventure Anna might be involved in.

Your books depict an almost cinematic sense of place. Was there a special reason you picked post-Katrina New Orleans as a setting for 13 1/2? Living in New Orleans through Katrina I couldn't but feel the craziness, devastation, depression, and, mostly the determination to survive that permeated the city. It so wonderfully echoed the themes of the characters in the book that it was an obvious choice.

Is any of 13 based on true events? I think 'based on' would be wrong, rather shall we say 'inspired by'. When I lived in Minneapolis many years ago there was a horrifying multiple murder in Rochester. The why of it was such a sad mystery I never did get it out of my mind.

What kind of research did you do to bring authenticity to the juvenile detention center where Butcher Boy was incarcerated? The detention center is completely a fiction. I wanted a place that was, like my characters and the book, straddling the past and the future, a place with modern leanings and sins of the past soaked into the walls.

You really get into the mind of the Butcher Boy. Did you do some specific research on the criminally insane? I read so much about criminally insane murderers that, should Homeland Security ever check my on-line wanderings I will undoubtedly be dubbed a Person of Interest.

There are many characters in 13 who play significant roles in the development of the main characters of Polly, Dylan, Richard, Marshall and Danny. Without giving too much away, is there another character you think plays the most significant role in the lives of your protagonists? Polly's daughters play a huge part. Not in the moving of the plot but in the symbolic sense of redemption and innocence to be protected or lost.

What made you decide on writing an intense, mind twisting drama? When I lived in Minneapolis many moons ago, there was a horrific murder in Rochester. A boy, nice boy, killed his entire family. Over the years I became fascinated, not with the murders so much, but with how those who survive such a calamity go on with their lives.

How did you come up with the title? The title was a gift from a Psychiatrist friend of mine who worked with juvenile offenders. He mentioned that they often got the tattoo 13 1/2: twelve jurors, one judge, half a chance.

Did writing this book give you nightmares? Not nightmares but, too often, a deep and abiding sadness.

Is Nevada your real name or a name you just write under? I was born in Nevada and my parents decided it was going to be my name whether I was a girl or a boy. 'Barr' is my maiden name, and the one I'm known by professionally.

How does plotting your novels work? All I know when I start is who dies, where they die, how they die and usually I know who did it. But sometimes I'm wrong, and in the middle I realize, he didn't do it. My gosh, it was this other guy!

Do you outline your books before writing them? I tried once, years ago, to outline it all like a grown-up and write a synopsis for every chapter, and it read like the English assignment from hell. Every bit of spontaneity got sucked right out.

Take an ounce of each: the juice of water lilies, broad beans, melon, serpentine cucumber, and lemon. Add a handful of white bryony, wild chicory, lilies, borage flowers, and broad bean flowers. Then take seven or eight white pigeons, from which you will remove all the feathers, the tips of the wings, and the head; mince them well and put them with the previous ingredients in a still. Add to this mixture four ounces of crushed royal sugar, a dram of borax, and the same amount of camphor, the crumb of three small white breads fresh from the oven, and half a pint of good white wine. Let all of these materials digest in the still for seventeen or eighteen days, after which distill the whole thing, and reserve the water to use as necessary.

This pigeon water looked to be some kind of cosmetic, and was said to come from Denmark. In the letter, claims were made for its positive impact on the complexion: it could freshen the skin and return a youthful appearance. As I reread the recipe for clues on why people of the time would want to splash their face with the distilled essence of heavily-herbed pigeon meat, I kept repeating the phrase to myself. Pigeon water. Pigeon water.

The further I was pulled away from the earnest Enlightenment journal, the more that pigeon water began to feel like a dark mirror. Somehow this fever dream of eighteenth-century beauty helped me see the worst parts of our life online. The misinformation, the promise of something better, the seemingly random combination of many ingredients, the sensational claims, the violent dismemberment, the fermentation.

First, I noticed the ooze. Cheese is often included in these videos, in order to explore the visual, gustatory and sexual dimensions of gooeyness. TikTok creators love cheese. They use a lot of cheese. There is too much. It appears in foods that have no need for cheese or any other goo. There are also many, many full sticks of butter.

If there is no cheese or butter involved, other things ooze. Runny egg yolks, creamy sauces, syrupy toppings. Spaghetti can be included for convenience or hyper-redundancy; in a peak moment for the micro-genre, an influencer ground up dried spaghetti in a blender to make the dough for a fresh pasta . Other forms of pasta are also popular. Many forms of macaroni casserole make an appearance.

If no oozing or pasta-based ingredients are involved, then excessive amounts of ground meat should be. Preferably all of these ingredients should be included, possibly along with common convenience items like taco seasoning or corn chips. Since many of these videos originated in the United States, its junk food and snacks often find their way into the meals in unexpected ways. Doritos bags have become a vessel for food preparation.

Chefs are generally not involved in these videos. The dishes are made by people with no special knowledge or interest in food. Attention of viewers, not tastiness is key. Some of them are made by well-established influencers, some by copycats trying to get in on the game, and many now appear from content farms that pump out as many iterations of recipes as they can think of. All of these producers are hungry for views and clicks and comments and reposts, which means: money. Creating novel culinary abominations to get attention is the purpose of the genre. Hence, ramen pizza.

Historians in the future looking back on these videos would understand that stunt cooking videos have existed for a while, but that culinary rage baiting and treat-based trolling gained new visibility and popularity in 2022. That year, there was a wave of new videos of unnecessary preparation hacks. Frozen chicken breasts were grated. Meals were made from potato chips. Raw eggs were frozen in ice-cube trays. Odd food combinations proliferated. Chicken parmesan sushi. Cream cheese pasta. French toast tacos. A seven-pound sheet-pan hamburger seasoned with salsa and wrapped in tortillas. Performance art pioneers and teenagers joined moonlighting comedians and out-of-work magicians. Content farms followed. Mayonnaise was pan fried. Instant noodles were cooked in chocolate milk. Kebabs rolled in crushed candy.

These disgusting food preparation videos have sent out reverberations across the internet, ripples in the pigeon water. In addition to the videos themselves ending up on other platforms, they spawned commentary videos, recipe reaction accounts and endless articles on websites that link to one another. Some reaction accounts have over three million followers, while long chains of commentary articles referring to one another can be traced thanks to the generous hyperlinking needed for search engine optimization. When the videos started appearing on Twitter, the middle-aged crowd was not ready for this new type of shitposting. There was outrage, food traditions of various cultural heritages were defended, disgustingness called out. They took the bait and regurgitated it as new angry content. Another gulp of pigeon water.

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