Flour, sugar, and not falling over.

I miss baking. I want to make chocolate cake with chocolate frosting, and our recipe for chocolate cake involves boiling things on the stove before mixing them with the flour and sugar, so it's really not something I feel safe doing at this stage of the vertigo. I also want to make oatmeal raisin spice cookies. And scones. And the first strawberry shortcakes and the first strawberry crisp of the season. Note that this is not the same thing as missing baked goods. My mom is where I got this stuff, and my mom is ten minutes away, and if I said, "Momma, could I have one of our chocolate cakes? Because I think I might actually be hungry for that," then poof! there would be chocolate cake. But I am not hungry for that. I want to do the bit where you make it. And that is where my interest ends.

Sigh.

AKICILJ, the mystery edition

My library has eighty-four listings for Ruth Rendell books (and audio recordings). Even ruling out that there are some duplicated in different formats, that's a lot to choose from. What I've read so far: Means of Evil and Other Stories and Talking to Strange Men. I was particularly impressed with the latter. Any Rendell fans have particular opinions about where I should go next?