I am having a hard time getting into this book. I need a fascinating story/dialogue to draw me in at night or else I choose sleep instead!
Next month can we pick a classic that none of us have read? Something like Sense and Sensibility? or Middlemarch? Or My Antonia? Or Anna Karenina? Or whatever. I am craving something that I would find on an AP English reading list...
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The love of learning
The sequested nooks
And all the sweet serenity of books
(Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)
The sequested nooks
And all the sweet serenity of books
(Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)
Books We've Read
- Daughter of Fortune (Allende)
- East of Eden (Steinbeck)
- Netherland (O'Neill)
- Sense & Sensibility (Austen)
- The Book Thief (Zusak)
- The Elegance of the Hedgehog (Barbery)
- The Omnivore's Dilemma (Pollan)
7 comments:
Heid, I totally skipped a lot of the corn part! I say, don't be afraid to skip parts and read what's interesting to you. I read a little of the cattle and now I make sure all my meat is reared outdoors, on a good diet, etc...i'll write more about that later. I am really slow at this...but i second the classic next time! that sounds great. why don't you find one for us! :)
Me too, me too. I feel like I'm stuck on the 100th page. I really do want to finish it though. I'm trying. Sort of.
i have never read sense and sensibility...btw.
Me neither, Lindsey. I have a copy of it, too. A pretty one. :)
I'll tell you that I'm having a hard time only because I already buy organic meat. So, I'm kinda stalled on reading it entirely. I feel like the worst book club members - with last book and this one.
March. Let's read Sense and Sensibility.
Missy- I have to say if you kept pushing along you may even rethink organic meat! All that means is that the cows are not given hormones and or antibiotics. But for all intents and purposes the cows are still being fed corn (not grass, and corn is completely horrible for them) and are living in cramped and unsanitary conditions. They just have to be more closely watched in order to prevent rampant infection, etc. The thing is they would not even risk infections and disease if they could be raised on a small farm with wide open space and being grass fed. I think the moral of the book is not eat organic (he gives many pros and cons of the "industrial organic" but ultimately I think it is more about supporting small farmers, growing your own food, shopping local, hoping the food industry really gets back to basics and away from industry. Was this a long enough comment!? I think I will make it into a post...
heidi, that was so well put. that is what i've been learning from the book too. i can't believe how much mankind has screwed up the food chain.
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