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Political Conservatives : Wendell Berry		23	enevada, March 13
50 Book Challenge : Annie's 2007 Reading List		12	blissfulwitch, February 20
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"...an elf..." Animal, Vegetable, Mineral - Barbara Kingsolver 'So how do we get more of them?"

"Good question. I'm still stumped for an answer..." Animal, Vegetable, Miracle - Barbara Kingsolver "Do you have to ask?"

... Mauro De Vasconcelos 46. Rhett Butler's People by Donald McCaig 47. Queen Lucia by E.F. Benson 48. Animal, Vegetable, Miracle by Barbara Kingsolver 49. The Lollipop Shoes by Joanne Harris 50. The Good Doctor by Damon Galgut

... McKillip (Feb) The Price of Silence by Kate Wilhelm (April) Wit's End by Karen Joy Fowler (May) Up next: Probably Animal, Vegetable, Miracle 4 - NON-FICTION Have You Found Her by Janice Erlbaum (Jan) Storming Heaven edited by Amber Sumrall and Patricia Vecchione (Feb) Lover ...

... area, and I had a 30% off coupon for the one hardcover I bought. Now I'm looking forward to the long holiday weekend! Animal, Vegetable, Miracle by Barbara Kingsolver Splendour in the Sunne by Sharon Kay Penman The Other Boleyn Girl by Phillipa Gregory No Country for Old Men by Cor ...

... Mysteries: a conversation with Tony Hillerman Tony Hillerman River Secrets Shannon Hale Ready or Not Meg Cabot Animal, Vegetable, Miracle Barbara Kingsolver Dragonhaven Robin McKinley Home to Holly Springs Jan Karon Hobbits, Elves, and Wizards Michael Stanton Being the Mom ...

... July read (see the Girlybooks group for details), and this book qualifies. And I absolutely loved Prodigal Summer and Animal, Vegetable, Miracle. But despite all that, I'm still resisting reading The Poisonwood Bible. But sometimes the books we resist reading are some of the best, right?

"...Old Charley..." Animal, vegetable, Miracle - Barbara Kingsolver "When do we start?"

13. Animal, Vegetable, Miracle This is author Barbara Kingsolver's true life account of her family living for one year eating strictly local foods, much of it from their garden and poultry. Overall, I'm glad I read this book. I did learn a few things, and I was convicted to eat more locally ...

I'll nominate 3 this quarter: Unaccustomed Earth - FANTASTIC Elizabeth and her German Garden - delightful Animal, Vegetable, Miracle - inspiring While I read several that were on par with the Kingsolver (4*'s, imo), it was by far the one that made the most impact on me. My other 4* ...

Just finished: 26. Animal, vegetable, miracle by Barbara Kingsolver. Finally!! It seems like it took forever to finish this book. To be fair, the (almost) month it took for me to finish it was punctuated by my father's stroke, the implant of his pacemaker and the start of his ...

I'm halfway through Animal, Vegetable, Miracle, which has been overly preachy (in an environmental sense). But I'm still enjoying parts of it.

S: Animal, Vegetable, Miracle

I'm reading Animal, Vegetable, Miracle which my daughter gave me for Mother's Day. Previously read The 100 Mile Diet and found it disappointing. However, I'm really enjoying Barbara Kingsolver's approach to eating locally and eating well.

"I'm nuts." Animal, Vegetable, Miracle - Barbara Kingsolver Hmm, do I really want berries today?"

"It seemed like a good thing..." Animal, Vegetable, Miracle - Barbara Kingsolver "What's a mother to do?"

"Yeah, right! I would think." Animal, Vegetable, Miracle - Barbara Kingsolver "Why impose restrictions on ourselves?"

"I have yet to find that..." Animal, Vegetable, Miracle - Barbara Kingsolver "Couldn't you find one closer?"

... you to ever eat conventional meat again... Both of the Barbara Kingsolver books mentioned are also wonderful, and Animal, Vegetable, Miracle definitely got me more excited about gardening and buying more local food.

"It seemed unwise to start on January 1. February, when it came, looked just as bleak." Animal, Vegetable, Miracle - Barbara Kingsolver "The question remained, What about now?"

... of summer visitors to our garden have stood in the middle of the bed and asked, "What is this stuff, it's beautiful!" Animal, Vegetable, Miracle - Barbara Kingsolver "If I win a monkey in a contest, can I keep it?"

"A nice image, but the truth is less fun." Animal, Vegetable, Miracle - Barbara Kingsolver "Where are our ingrained rules of taste and civility...?"

"I had staked out my future in asparagus..." Animal, Vegetable, Miracle - Barbara Kingsolver "Will North Americans ever have a food culture to call our own?"

... on the way to work. I'm looking forward to more stimulating words from my next choice which is... In progress: Animal, vegetable, miracle by Barbara Kingsolver

I loved Animal, Vegetable, Miracle - it's given me a lot of food for thought (pardon the pun).

Pardon me while I ask somone..." Animal, Vegetable, Miracle - Barbara Kingsolver "What do you do for fun around here?"

... of essays, they blew me away. I'd found a woman of my heart! Even as we speak, I'm looking through Kingsolver's book Animal, Vegetable, and Mineral which I think I'll keep as part of my permanent collection. ETA: No. I haven't read Revolution Is Not a Dinner Party ...

"...run over a McDonald's with a bulldozer." Animal, Vegetable, Miracle - Barbara Kingsolver "What's for dinner?"

"...a laboratory creation..." Animal, Vegetable, Miracle - Barbara Kingsolver "What kind of weirdo makes cheese?"

"...you could lop off the end of the row and let the potatoes roll into a basket." Animal, Vegetable, Miracle - Barbara Kingsolver "Why should I care about tobacco farmers?"

"I hope so." Animal, vegetable, Miracle - Barbara Kingsolver "Why impose restrictions on ourselves?"

"This was the trip of our lives." Animal, Vegetable, Miracle - Barbara Kingsolver "What else does a family need?"

Started Animal, Vegetable, Miracle by Barbara Kingsolver yesterday and I am loving it so far. Also reading Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy which I am finding kind of a slow read, but definitely not something I want to give up on.

>14 motomama, I just read Animal, Vegetable, Miracle a few weeks ago -- and echo your feelings about it. Wonderful book and has inspired me to change what I eat and where I buy it.

Born on a Blue Day; just finished Animal, Vegetable, Miracle last night - it was a great, meaty (no pun intended) read, full of great stories, recipes and interesting facts about eating local and organically.

Animal, Vegetable, Miracle by Barbara Kingsolver

Just started Animal, Vegetable, Mineral and am really enjoying it. Just finished Bourdain's Nasty Bits and liked it as well.

#26 - Animal, Vegetable, Miracle by Barbara Kingsolver, 384 pages. I have to say, I think this book is going to change my life! It has absolutely convinced me to eat more locally. Has tons of information and is a great story of her family as well! Highly recommend it!! FionaCat - you've ...

I've finished Animal, Vegetable, Miracle (loved it!) and am now reading Edward Jones' The Known World.

I've been spending a bit of time in Virginia, USA. First I was growing my own produce with Barbara Kingsolver (Animal, Vegetable, Miracle). I've now travelled back to the mid-1800s and reading the story of a free black man who also had slaves: Edward P. Jones' The Known World.

... attack their host plants in slightly new ways each season, encouraged by changes in prevailing conditions of climate." Animal, Vegetable, Miracle by Barbara Kingsolver

Still reading Animal, Vegetable, Miracle. It is a great read and very inspiring. I'd already started making some basic changes in diet and food sources but am going to do more as a result of this book. This morning we're off to scout out a couple of farms who sell to the public ...

firefly, barbara kingsolver also read animal, vegetable, miracle, and I enjoyed both her reading and what she had to say. i liked her southern twang. i think i've commented on this before somewhere else, but her husband and daughter read the sections they contributed as well, and there were ...

#34 & 41 -- Animal, Vegetable, Miracle is a wonderful book! I read it, The Omnivore's Dilemma and In Defense of Food (both by Michael Pollan)in a fairly short time period -- all very thought-provoking, inspiring books about food and our (all too often broken) relationship with it.

34> I just received Animal Vegetable Miracle in the mail today - I'm glad to hear it's already inspiring. I also received The Fortune Cookie Chronicles today and I think I'll be starting that, too. Has anyone read Shadow of the Silk Road? I brought it home from work today and it looks ...

... mood for it in a concentrated dose so I just read a chapter now and then. But last night I started Barbara Kingsolver's Animal, Vegetable, Miracle which is inspiring after just one chapter. I've already decided to scout out our local farm markets this weekend!

# 117 - lindsacl - I have Animal, Vegetable, Miracle on my TBR list for a reading challenge. I will be very curious to read your review when you're done with this one!

I finished The Piano Tuner yesterday, and found it disappointingly predictable. Now I'm reading Animal, Vegetable, Miracle which is just perfect for springtime. I can tell I'm going to be a very inspired and motivated gardener after this!

... to exercise incredible restraint. Hopefully they will have another one soon. Meanwhile, on loan from the library I have Animal, Vegetable, Miracle and First, Break all the Rules.

... src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0060852550.01._SX50_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg"> Animal, Vegetable, Miracle - review, an inspiring memoir of one family's quest to spend a year eating local food. ...

... enjoyed. I just started The Gathering last night and was immediately hooked. Next up will be Barbara Kingsolver's Animal, Vegetable, Miracle and then I'll be reading some male authors for a bit ...

... section of the ATLANTIC because he said his wife does all his typing. He is mentioned by Barbara Kingsolver, the author of Animal, Vegetable, Miracle & also by David Klein, an Amish farmer from Ohio who writes about living without machines, ect. Not political, but I read him as against ...

August 45. Barbara Kingsolver- Animal, Vegetable, Miracle (A-) 46. Marjane Satrapi- Embroideries (B) 47. Haruki Murakami- A Wild Sheep Chase (A) 48. Thich Nhat Hanh- Anger (B-) 49. T.C. Boyle- Drop City (C-) 50. Haruki Murakami- Sputnik Sweetheart (B+) 51. Neil Gaiman- Stardust (B ...

If you read non-fiction, Barbara Kingsolver has a book about how her family lived on locally produced food for a year. Animal, Vegetable, Miracle Wendell Berry has several books on how to live organically & why it is necessary.

... I haven't read the Man o' War bio by Page Cooper, but I have seen it. And thanks for the tip about Claiborne's website! Animal, Vegetable, Miracle was a wonderful book. If you liked it, try The Omnivore's Dilemma and In Defense of Food by Michael Pollan.

A slow month of quality books for me. The only one that has stayed with me is Animal, vegetable, Miracle by Barbara Kingsolver.

... in a Bottle 5. A Farewell to Arms IV. Homesteading 1. Back to Basics 2. Storey's Basic Country Skills 3. Animal Vegetable Miracle 4. Fast Food Nation 5. The Self Sufficient Life 6. Five Acres and Independence 7. Root Cellaring 8. Barnyard in Your Backyard V. B ...

I absolutly loved animal, vegetable, miracle by barbara kingsolver. its really really good. made me want to go out and do the same thing lol

So..my first books of 2008. 1. Animal, vegetable, miracle by Barbara Kingsolver - a lovely gentle book about a year of growing food and eating locally. It was a delight to read. 2. Forest Mage by Robyn Hobb - the grueling middle book from her Soldier Son series. Well written but ...

... thrive. In the area I live, I've seen a real interest in eating locally (locovores) since Barbara Kingsolver's book Animal, Vegetable, Miracle was released. For months after reading it, I didn't purchase bananas--which, along with pineapples, she calls the humvee of fruits due to the oil ...

... Cups of Tea by Greg Mortenson Under the Banner of Heaven by Jon Krakauer Angels in the Wilderness by Amy Racina Animal, Vegetable, Miracle by Barbara Kingsolver Looking for Alaska by John Green The Yiddish Policemen's Union by Michael Chabon In a Far Country by John Taliaferr ...

... William F. Buckley Cannibals and Kings by Marvin Harris The Constant Princess by Philippa Gregory Animal, Vegetable, Miracle by Barbara Kingsolver The War Prayer by Mark Twain The Sword and the Scimitar by Ernle Bradford and because I am a ...

... - LATEST BOOKS (IN PAPERBACK) BY FAVOURITE AUTHORS 1. A Troubled Guest: Life And Death Stories by Nancy Mairs 2. Animal Vegetable Miracle by Barbara Kingsolver 3. Saving Fish from Drowing by Amy Tan 4. Blue Water by A. Manette Ansay 5. Solstice Wood by Patricia McKillip 6. ...

... other great books about life in the Mideast, especially about Egypt, and I'm enjoying this one too. I'm also reading Animal, Vegetable, Miracle by Barbara Kingsolver, her account of a year when her family tried to live only off food bought or grown locally. Very thought-provoking.

119. Animal, Vegetable, Miracle by Barbara Kingsolver - Did I like this book? Well, yes and no. I admired the dedication of the author and her family, and their descriptions of their day-to-day life on the farm were interesting and well-written. However, she tended to get a little "preachy" at ...

Yesterday, actually. It is Animal, Vegetable, Miracle by Barbara Kingsolver, and she is intimidating the hell out of me. No one can eat as healthy as she does! TPBM thinks we should still try.

... And still am.... Here's the n/f top five: oops - I was looking at my July to December list; edited to add/remove. Animal, Vegetable, Miracle -- Barbara Kingsolver (3) The Worst Hard Time-- Timothy Egan (2) Ex Libris : confessions of a common reader -- Anne Fadiman (3) ...

44. Animal, Vegetable, Mineral by Barbara Kingsolver Made me want to grow my own vegetable patch. 45. How Sassy Changed My Life by Kara Jesella A trip down memory lane for the teen magazine, but this book sorely needs more visual candy. No photos. 46. Everything Is Miscellaneous ...

217. Thomas the Rhymer by Ellen Kushner - keeper 218. Animal, Vegetable, Miracle by Barbara Kingsolver, Steven L. Hopp and Camille Kingsolver - library 219. The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde - keeper (in omnibus) 220. The Phoenix Unchained by Mercedes La ...

I've just started Animal, Vegetable, Miracle by Barbara Kingsolver. It's really interesting so far, but I can tell it'll be a slow read. It's dense with information.

What about Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life? I've heard good things about it though I haven't read it myself yet.

... sure: Ananda by Osamu Tezuka Robin Hobb's short novel from Legends II Thomas the Rhymer by Ellen Kushner Animal, Vegetable, Miracle by Barbara Kingsolver After that, I'll either read the entire Josephine B. Trilogy by Sandra Gulland or the Twilight series by St ...

Three books have definitely make me think twice about what I eat and where my food comes from: Fast-food nation, Animal, Vegetable, Miracle, and The Omnivore's Dilemma. (The movie Super-Size Me was also thought provoking, but I'll try to limit this posting to the books. Food production ...

... ezuka Franny and Zooey by J.D. Salinger Darkwing by Kenneth Oppel Thomas the Rhymer by Ellen Kushner Animal, Vegetable, Miracle by Barbara Kingsolver I've also got an Amazon order that includes Eclipse and Serenity: The Official Visual Companion on the way, so I' ...

... Chesapeake Bay has made me aware of the effects agriculture can have on aquatic environments. Among others, I've read Animal, Vegetable, Miracle and am partially into Omnivore's Dilemma. I'd like to join the growing dialogue of food choice as an environmental decision, as well as a ...

streamsong, if you like Animal, Vegetable, Miracle, you may also enjoy reading The omnivore's dilemma which is also about what and how we eat. Pollan goes about preparing four meals, not just from scratch, but investigating where in the world each ingredient came from. There was some bit of ...

... for my literature group is Summer in Baden-Baden. I'm also on Barbara Kingsolver farm in Virginia and her book Animal, Vegetable, Miracle describing her family's experiment to eat locally. She had one quick chapter about flying to Italy and enjoying the local foods there, too.

#4 Robert--I'm also reading Independent People for a bookclub/seminar. On the nonfiction side, I'm reading Animal, Vegetable, Miracle about her experiment in eating only local foods. It's really opening my eyes to the stranglehold the large seed companies have and to the petrochemical costs ...

Five top books this quarter (random order) Animal Vegetable Miracle Barbara Kingsolver Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows J. K. Rowling A Thousand Splendid Suns Khaled Hoseeni David Copperfield Charles Dickens The Old Wives Tale Arnold Bennett

I finally finished Animal, Vegetable, Miracle by Barbara Kingsolver which I very much enjoyed. I wasn't thrilled with the chapter on the "harvesting" of the chickens and turkeys, though. I found that chapter to seem a bit defensive for some reason. I also figured out why it took me so long ...

... Lee In the Name of Salomé by Julia Alvarez Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See Nonfiction: Animal, Vegetable, Miracle by Barbara Kingsolver Ex Libris : Confessions of a Common Reader by Anne Fadiman The good rain : across time and terrain in the Pacif ...

46. Animal, Vegetable, Miracle by Barbara Kingsolver - very good although I found the chapter about "harvesting" the chickens and turkeys sounded a little defensive and full of excuses. (touchstones won't load) edited for touchstones

I am still reading Animal, Vegetable, Miracle. I am enjoying it but have not been reading as much as I usually do. This always seems to happen at the beginning of the school year. While I am home all day, for the first time by myself, I volunteer at school a lot and have not been reading much ...

... Fire: A busy woman's guide to igniting the writer within, by Barbara DeMarco (excellent, and not just for women) 44. Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: a year of food life, by Barbara Kingsolver 45. Persuasion, by Jane Austen

... Beach: a novel by Ian McEwan - I can't say it was a favorite but I did enjoy the ending. I am currently reading Animal, Vegetable, Miracle by Barbara Kingsolver which I am really enjoying.

... by Lincoln Child 19. Possession by A.S. Byatt 20. The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency by Alexander McCall Smith 21. Animal, Vegetable, Miracle by Barbara Kingsolver 22. Heart-Shaped Box by Joe Hill 23. The Jane Austen Book Club by Karen Joy Fowler 24. The Road by Cormac McCarthy ...

I am almost finished with Animal, Vegetable, Miracle by Barbara Kingsolver. Really enjoying reading about how a year in the life of true gardeners/farmers ebbs and flows! Good information throughout, although I hold a different opinion on some of the issues. ;o) I'm also reading Teach Like ...

I loved Elsewhere! I am currently reading Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life and enjoying it. Next up will probably be The Invention of Hugo Cabret because it is a library book and already overdue!

... I think it would be The Female Man or Good Omens. I read 3 P.D. James books, though, and really enjoyed them, and Animal, Vegetable, Miracle was great, it gave me a lot to think about. The Shadow of the Wind was really good, too. The two Alfred Bester books were great in some ...

45. Animal, Vegetable, Miracle by Barbara Kingsolver I don't think I could plant a garden that would supply me for most of a year, even if I didn't live in an apartment with no ground space, but I did learn a lot of things that I can do to try to eat a more local diet. I am seriously ...

Well, I wasn't recommending Animal, Vegetable, Miracle for the vegan part, but rather for the local part. Another good book about vegan eating from a health perspective is The McDougall Program: twelve days to dynamic health. The focus is definitely on health, but it is good information, ...

I am not sure that Animal, Vegetable, Miracle is really a book I would recommend to a starting out veg*an, as a whole chapter is given up to justifiying eating meat and killing animals! I would recommend 'The Way We Eat' (for some reason it is called The Ethics of What We Eat on LT) as a good ...

Okay, I am finally here! First of all, a couple of book recommendations: Animal, Vegetable, Miracle by Barbara Kingsolver--I am reading this now, and it is really interesting, in that it is about a fairly normal family trying to eat as locally as possible. They make a few exceptions (coff ...

... forever!) Reading Like a Writer by Francine Prose American Gospel by Jon Meacham Jesus Land by Julia Scheeres Animal, Vegetable, Miracle by Barbara Kinsolver True Light by Terri Blackstock A Mom After God's Own Heart: 10 Ways to Love Your Children by Elizabeth George Got ...

... extremely dry and repetitive so wound up skipping over parts to get to the Crippen story towards the end.) Just started Animal, Vegetable, Miracle by Barbara Kingsolver. And eagerly awaiting the 8-10 audios I ordered online last week...