CREATING A RURAL LIFE.
So, it’s been a while since my last post. Reasons: I’ve been technologically repressed (my laptop was kaput, but no more) and environmentally depressed (rain, wind, more rain, more wind, tornado, rain, wind, cold snap, rain, wind, wind).
So spring sprung…hooray! Through February and March, John and I had been maniacally planting seedlings [...]
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Recently Read:
Pride and Prejudice and Zombies by Seth Grahame-Smith
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!Rating: 3 out of 5 mammoth sunflowers
The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri
Meh. Story good. Ending disappointing.Rating: 2 out of 5 ugly tomatoes
Eat Pray Love - Elizabeth Gilbert
I hesitated long and hard before finally reading this book. And I adored it. Open yourself up to life (love and god) and it will open up to you. Rating: 5 out of 5 lunar carrots
Animal, Vegetable, Mineral - Barbara Kingsolver
Living my life, but better, with more resources, more money, more knowledge. Annoying and inspiring.Rating: 3 out of 5 green tomatoes
Telex from Cuba - Rachel Kushner
Life of American families in pre-Castro cuba. Rating: 3 1/2 out of 5 thai chilis
Middlesex - Jeffrey Eugenides
Raised a girl, but truly a boy. Greek tragi-comedy. Rating: 5 out of 5 bushel basket gourds
Ecology of a Cracker Childhood - Janisse Ray
Girl grows up in junkyard in backwoods of southwest Georgia. Learns to appreciate the beauty around her. Rating: 4 out of 5 black cherry tomatoes
The Girl With No Shadow - Joanne Harris
The sequel to Chocolat. Fear and comfort overrule a life of magic and adventure.Rating: 3 1/2 out of 5 mini green peppers
Water for Elephants - Sara Gruen
Hard, odd luck befalls a young man during the Depression (of course, he wasn't alone). His life is forever altered by a traveling circus.Rating: 4 out of 5 white eggplant
A Servant's Tale - Paula Fox
The offspring of a once wealthy landowner and his maid, a girl grows up in a life of tentative servitude in South America.Rating: 2 1/2 out of 5 honeydew melons
Dream Jungle - Jessica Hagedorn
Set in the Philippines, a huge war movie is shot near the site of a supposedly just found lost tribe. Unrelated events intertwined by common threads and characters. A good read, but no real ending or resolution.Rating: 2 1/2 out of 5 honeydew melons
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - JK Rowling
Last book in the series. I have to admit I love these books for what they are. I guess I'm still a kid at heart.Rating: 4 out of 5 chocolate frogs
Boomsday - Christopher Buckley
Satirical look at social and political warfare between Baby Boomers and the next generation over US debt and social security orchestrated by an idealistic blogger/spin doctor. Rating: 3 out of 5 hot peppers
A Long Way Down - Nick Hornby
Four strangers, each contemplating suicide, meet on a rooftop on New Year's Eve. Rating: 3 1/2 out of 5 hot peppers
The Cheese Monkeys - Chip Kidd
Kind of pretentious black comedy about art students in the 1950s. Rating: 3 out of 5 yellow squash
Oryx & Crake - Margaret Atwood
The world has become a wasteland and mankind driven to the brink of destruction due to rampant genetic engineering by unchecked science-based corporations. Rating: 3 out 5 ears of corn
Tobacco Road - Erskine Caldwell
Tragic yet comedic tale of incredibly poor and ignorant sharecroppers in Georgia. Rating: 3 out of 5 watermelons