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Best choice is, sort of my default, a non-fiction work about biology...Banana: The Fate of the Fruit that Changed the World or Apples; or poetry. It helps me stay awake when reading Spenser or *shudder* Milton. I have finished, and reviewed, Banana: The Fate of the Fruit that Changed the World by Dan Koeppel. Short version is, read it because it's about something very, very, very important...the food security of millions of people...and the very real chance that your grocery store won't have ... Twenty-two of seventy-five:
Banana: The Fate of the Fruit that Changed the World by Dan Koeppel is yet another entry in the single-subject world of non-fiction. The narrowness of focus in books such as Salt and Cod and The Book on the Bookshelf and The Pencil and Longitude seems ... Has anyone read this book: Banana by Dan Koeppel? I found this review after a Powells.com Daily Dose email alerted me to the existence of the item:
"The world's most humble fruit has caused inordinate damage to nature and man, and Popular Science journalist Koeppel (To See Every Bird on Ea ... ... Secrets of the Ya-ya Sisterhood and loved it - it's not easy being mothers and daughters. Then I slogged my way through Banana: The Fate of the Fruit that Changed the World - really, this should only have been a long magazine article if it had had a good editor. Now I've started The Fat Wom ... ... I've had on order for months - The Fat Woman Next Door is Pregnant which I really want to get read for Canada Reads, and Banana: The Fate of the Fruit that Changed the World which is only a 7 day loan so I guess I won't get much else done for the next week! Hello! I just added Banana to my wishlist. Sounds great. 1. Banana: the fate of the fruit that changed the world - Fascinating look at the past, present and future of bananas. ... Lolita in Tehran is next on my list -- glad to see another positive comment on it. Plan to start it after I finish Banana: Fate of the Fruit That Changed the World. ... Guiana.)
Other than that, what books are you reading? I enjoy history books so I read those mostly. I am reading Banana: The Fate of the Fruit that Changed the World. Not specifically about Latin America, but the two are closely related. "The answer was suddenly obvious."
Banana: The fate of the fruit that changed the world by Dan Koeppel
"Are bananas available?" I'm reading Banana: The Fate of the Fruit that Changed the World by Dan Koeppel. I like commodity histories. I'm reading Banana: The Fate of the Fruit that Changed the World by Dan Koeppel.
So, now it's August 6th and I finished Banana yesterday (or the day before?) I reallly enjoyed it...politics, murder, science, even selling the banana sliced and wrapped in foil in deference to the ... I'm reading Banana: The Fate of the Fruit that Changed the World by Dan Koeppel Hi -- I'm new to the group and looking forward to reading more recommendations. I just finished Banana: The Fate of the Fruit that Changed the World by Dan Koeppel and enjoyed it very much -- I recommend this book to those who liked Cod: The Biography of the Fish that Changed the World by ... ... through Regency England -- The Grand Sophy and Sprig Muslin. Always fun reads.
My weekly dose of nonfiction took in Banana: The Fate of the Fruit that Changed the World by Dan Koeppel. An interesting look at America's favorite breakfast fruit -- and a book I think fans of The Omnivo ... #12 Banana: the fate of the fruit that changed the world by Dan Koeppel -- nonfiction
I never realized the banana had such an interesting history (and checkered past).
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