I don't know what happened, but over the past 3 weeks or so I've managed to read quite a bit. I think I was watching too much tv recently and needed to feed my brain with more interesting stories.
It all started with a random picking of a book at the college bookstore. I was browsing the tables for a good lunch book and happened upon An Actual Life by Abigail Thomas. It's a pretty quick read, and I loved it. I wanted the story to continue when I got to the end. I think it took me about one week to read it over lunch hours. It's a bitter-sweet tale of two people who end up married after the young woman gets pregnant on their first date.
I liked it so much I picked up Getting Over Tom by Abigail Thomas as my current lunch book. I'm 1/3 of the way through. I was really happy to see that one set of the short stories in this book are about Buddy and Virginia from An Actual Life. They go into what happens in their lives before An Actual Life begins.
Once I finished An Actual Life I figured I should start reading our current book club selection, One True Thing by Anna Quindlen. I got a good kick-start on reading when I went to get my oil changed at Toyota (free oil changes for life, love it), and had to wait for two hours for them to be finished. I liked it a lot more than I thought I would. It's a very easy read, and is pretty heart-wrenching. The story of a young woman who goes home to take care of her mother who has terminal cancer, and the impact it has on her life and relationships. I finished it in a weekend.
On Thursday I picked up The Secret Life of Bees, by Sue Monk Kidd. I think I'm the last person on the planet to read this book. It was not at all what I expected. It made me very emotional as I read it. I finished it yesterday (didn't get much else accomplished yesterday, which makes me feel a bit guilty after seeing Don work so hard recently).
Another book I've been reading is Wild Fermentation by Sandor Katz. He's all about eating fermented foods, and includes some good information and what I hope are good recipes. My food preservation teacher was all entranced by him when she met him recently and I thought it was pretty interesting. You may have heard him talking on NPR on Friday. It's not that the information in the book is new or shocking, but it does confirm in my mind some of the things that I think are wrong with food regulations and the over-abundance of processed foods in our country.
I have a lot of books piling up to read. I'm also perhaps the last person on the planet who hasn't read Life of Pi, by Yann Martel, or The Omnivore's Dilemma, by Michael Pollan. Both were passed on to me by others, and have somehow gotten lost in the shuffle, but they're at the top of my list now. I also hope we pick a good book club book tomorrow, though I'm doubtful whether I'll be able to attend the next meeting.
I'll post more about this later, but if all goes well Toast could be open for business as early as this coming Friday. Wednesday is the comprehensive inspection, which will determine when they can open. Ahh! Time is flying. I better go run my Toast errands now so I'm not the big slacker.
It all started with a random picking of a book at the college bookstore. I was browsing the tables for a good lunch book and happened upon An Actual Life by Abigail Thomas. It's a pretty quick read, and I loved it. I wanted the story to continue when I got to the end. I think it took me about one week to read it over lunch hours. It's a bitter-sweet tale of two people who end up married after the young woman gets pregnant on their first date.
I liked it so much I picked up Getting Over Tom by Abigail Thomas as my current lunch book. I'm 1/3 of the way through. I was really happy to see that one set of the short stories in this book are about Buddy and Virginia from An Actual Life. They go into what happens in their lives before An Actual Life begins.
Once I finished An Actual Life I figured I should start reading our current book club selection, One True Thing by Anna Quindlen. I got a good kick-start on reading when I went to get my oil changed at Toyota (free oil changes for life, love it), and had to wait for two hours for them to be finished. I liked it a lot more than I thought I would. It's a very easy read, and is pretty heart-wrenching. The story of a young woman who goes home to take care of her mother who has terminal cancer, and the impact it has on her life and relationships. I finished it in a weekend.
On Thursday I picked up The Secret Life of Bees, by Sue Monk Kidd. I think I'm the last person on the planet to read this book. It was not at all what I expected. It made me very emotional as I read it. I finished it yesterday (didn't get much else accomplished yesterday, which makes me feel a bit guilty after seeing Don work so hard recently).
Another book I've been reading is Wild Fermentation by Sandor Katz. He's all about eating fermented foods, and includes some good information and what I hope are good recipes. My food preservation teacher was all entranced by him when she met him recently and I thought it was pretty interesting. You may have heard him talking on NPR on Friday. It's not that the information in the book is new or shocking, but it does confirm in my mind some of the things that I think are wrong with food regulations and the over-abundance of processed foods in our country.
I have a lot of books piling up to read. I'm also perhaps the last person on the planet who hasn't read Life of Pi, by Yann Martel, or The Omnivore's Dilemma, by Michael Pollan. Both were passed on to me by others, and have somehow gotten lost in the shuffle, but they're at the top of my list now. I also hope we pick a good book club book tomorrow, though I'm doubtful whether I'll be able to attend the next meeting.
I'll post more about this later, but if all goes well Toast could be open for business as early as this coming Friday. Wednesday is the comprehensive inspection, which will determine when they can open. Ahh! Time is flying. I better go run my Toast errands now so I'm not the big slacker.
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