good simple food

Have I mentioned how much I like potato-leek soup, especially when it's made with duck fat?

Perhaps I haven't, because melted_snowball usually writes the food posts around this house.

Potato-Leek Soup with duck fat is a good thing. And it's easy, too. Tonight's dinner was the aforementioned, with corn-bread, and salad with Feta Garlic dressing from the Moosewood Cookbook. We should've made more salad, so we could have had more dressing.

And a bit of wine, now that my stomach has settled from a somewhat stressful day at work. (A recap of the last 45 minutes: Me: Waddya mean you won't reboot, I was supposed to meet dan ten minutes ago! Server: heh heh heh. Me: Argh!)

Literary Trope: imaginary rooms

I've read three books in the last year that have used a similar plot device in passing: an invisible room.

That is, a room that exists only by convention.

In Little, Big there was the Imaginary Study, where Auberon spends time by himself in his tiny one-room apartment shared with his sweetie.

In Extremely Loud And Incredibly Close there are Nothing Places, which serves nearly the same purpose.

In a Donald Westlake potboiler called Trust Me on This, there are Squaricles, lines drawn on the floor in an office too cheap to give its employees Cubicles.

It's occurred to me that I enjoyed all three of these books, so I'm wondering whether anybody knows of other books with some similar element, since I'm looking for more fiction to read. Oh, and no mimes. :)