Review: The Candy House, by Jennifer Egan The New York Times

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• The palatial two-acre estate includes a newly built guest house and sprawling outdoor entertaining space
• Oprah Daily Spring Books Preview–#1 Pick!! 4/1/22
• The Irish Times, by Helen Cullen, 4/30/22
• Investigation continues after man shoots, kills wife and 3 children at Yukon home: What we know
• The New Republic, by Jennifer Wilson, 5/10/22

“This may be a regret the Republicans will have because people are going to be angry, and when you're angry you vote,” Baringer said. Louis, said she thinks voters are going to show up in droves. House Minority Leader Crystal Quade, D-Springfield, said with the changes, there is a possibility that the resolution does not pass. The proposed amendment passed after hours of filibustering from Senate Democrats who wanted other language that was originally in the resolution stripped off. When the Senate initially sent over its resolution, it contained only the provision that raises the required votes needed.

The palatial two-acre estate includes a newly built guest house and sprawling outdoor entertaining space

So often her characters are unable to understand or accept what happened, those crucial, ill-understood moments when everything went awry. Far from being cartoonishly evil, an obvious wrong, "Own Your Unconscious" has deep instinctive appeal. This is characteristic of Egan, who isn't interested in moral problems with obvious answers.

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Much of “The Candy House” takes place in a future influenced by Bix’s revolution, but the novel rarely contends with the implications of that premise for Bix’s life, the tech industry or the world shaped by it. Instead, Bix’s skin color remains about as relevant as his hair color. In The Candy House, there is a persistent, lovely countermelody to the corporate project of mapping human experience and using it to predict what people will think and buy. The novel is full of people engaged in a kind of sweeter and more plaintive human algebra. I haven't recently read a gentler or funnier description of longing than in one chapter here in which a "senior empiricist and metrics expert" named Lincoln tries to determine what will make his crush, "M", fall in love with him.

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The Irish Times, by Helen Cullen, 4/30/22

Save the sugary treats for dessert and show up for the wholesome lunch menu of sandwiches, salads, quiche and the ever-popular dal bowl—almost as good as the homemade confections you'll treat yourself to afterward. Egan uses the destruction of familial relationships to portray the unsavory role technology can play. “Own Your Unconscious” is painted in a decidedly negative light as it creates ideological rifts between father and son and drives a mother to the extremes of paranoia.

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Now kids, tourists and sugar fiends can all stock up on all things sweet and colored at this Mid-City candy mecca. Browse the shelves stocked full of nostalgic and holiday-themed candies, along with fill-your-own-bag bins of chocolates, gummies, crèmes and hard candies. Should you get sick of candy (like that could ever happen), this shop also slings ice cream by the cup or the cone.

Aaron and Candy Spelling's 56,500-square-foot (5,250 m2) mansion in Holmby Hills. The French chateau, under construction now for two years, has turned the corner of Mapleton and Club View drives into a gawker's paradise. Sprawled across 6 acres (2.4 ha) on what once was the Bing Crosby estate, the house dwarfs the sizable mansions on the block and looms large over tranquil Holmby Park near Wilshire Boulevard. In 2016, she decided to sell the property, and it was on and off the market for three years. The 11,000-square-foot main residence is laid out on a single story and designed for indoor-outdoor living, with 14-foot ceilings, floor-to-ceiling windows, and numerous glass doors opening out onto the home’s terraces, according to listing photos.

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Other highlights include a swimming pool, spa and tennis court. Ghirardelli’s shiny chocolate squares are found next to many cash registers these days, but the original Ghirardelli is best enjoyed in San Francisco’s Ghirardelli Square. The ambience resembles an old-fashioned ice cream parlor, while the long lines are more like Disneyland.

Somewhat more effective is a chapter constructed from a great thicket of nested email conversations. But here again Egan presumes a lot on her readers’ ability to know what she’s talking about. It would have taken so little additional information to make this more inviting that I can’t help feeling the author was overindulged by her editor.

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On Thursday, state Rep. Maggie Nurrenbern, a Democrat from Kansas City, brought the conversation back to abortion. The issue has been an undercurrent in this year’s initiative petition debate. State Rep. Peter Merideth, a Democrat from St. Louis, said under the current framework of one person one vote, Gragg was flat-out wrong. After an hour-long debate Thursday morning, the bill ultimately passed, with House Majority Leader Jon Patterson of Lee’s Summit the lone “no” vote among his Republican colleagues.

You can shop by era, size or color, and will be hard-pressed to think of a candy Jack's doesn't stock. But even more shocking than the selection of classic sweets is the section of the store dedicated solely to oversized candy. You'll find a chocolate-covered fortune cookie of jumbo proportions and a Rice Krispies Treat that could feed a family of six—or one person to finish over a month or so. Grab a bag, head to the columns of dispensers and let those bulk candies fly.

House Republicans want language in the resolution they think will make it more likely to pass. “Surely the ratification of something as sacred as the framework to our governance as a state should require something greater than just simply a simple majority statewide,” said state Rep. Brad Banderman, a Republican from St. Clair. Republicans argued this is about engaging all voters, no matter if they live in an urban or rural area. We are shocked, and our hearts are broken; this tragedy simply defies understanding. While this has been a very difficult year for the MPS Family, both students and adults may struggle with managing their feelings and reactions to this news. Our Crisis Response Team has been present at schools today and will continue to be in place moving forward for as long as they are needed.

To find festive candy and nostaglic-retro sweets like Abba-Zaba, Big Cherry and Good News bars, and even Scandinavian treats, head to these top candy shops. Currently, a simple majority of votes is needed to pass a proposed constitutional amendment once it makes it onto the ballot. The proposed resolution would increase that threshold to both a simple majority of votes and the majority of Missouri’s eight congressional districts. Dylan Lauren's super candy store in New York landed on the West Coast at the Original Farmers Market.

Numerous shelves are stocked nearly floor to ceiling, warehouse style with chocolate bars and chocolate accessories from around the world so that you can find the perfect treat. Mr. Candy’s brother, Christian Candy, purchased the property for $24 million in 2013, according to representatives for Candy Capital, and in 2018 sold the estate to Mr. Candy, who has since made extensive updates, including the addition of the guest home. A 1,000-square-foot primary wing includes dual en-suite bathrooms and dressing rooms. Other amenities in the home include a 1920s “French regency-style” home theater as well as a study, and a playroom. Find handmade marshmallows and sea salt caramels at this sweet, homey café, whose neat blue-and-white striped exterior is slightly reminiscent of a candy wrapper.

Partly, this is simply a matter of the book’s structure, which insists on constantly fracturing and abandoning its forms, themes and characters. But as other chapters leap to other lives, we see people who do resist the Web’s mind-absorbing candy. Alfred Hollander, for instance, is so desperate for authenticity that he randomly screams just to discombobulate passing strangers for a moment. Citizen-led initiative petitions currently require signatures from 8% of voters in five of the state’s eight congressional districts.

This is an author endlessly capable of experimentation (Egan shocked readers in 2010 with a chapter written as a PowerPoint presentation, quaint as it might sound now). But ending on something so straightforwardly conventional — so formulaic — feels not like a copout but rather like a winking flex, a master pianist infusing unexpected feeling into Chopsticks. It is moving, somehow, both despite and because of its familiarity.