I have read many great books this summer. I keep a running list of what is next to read. The tough thing about a good book is always the last page. Somehow we want them to go on and on and they never do. From Gone with the Wind to my latest books by Khaled Hosseini - they always end and I still have questions! As far as having the books end too soon, I think I am learning to get around that. I am reading several good books all at one time and then I am reading them slow!
The book that has really rocked me this summer is Michael Pollan's Omnivore's Dilemma. If you know me at all you know it has been my main topic of conversation all summer. The ideas are profound and they are causing me to rethink alot of ways that I have always eaten. However, when it is acting as an agent of change, I have to digest slowly. I read and then digest and sometimes have to go back and look at it again. However, I cannot wait to finish it so I can read it again. I cannot ever remember a book that I wanted to read again-- in the very same year.
From his website: "The surprising answers Pollan offers to the simple question posed by this book have profound political, economic, psychological, and even moral implications for all of us. Beautifully written and thrillingly argued, The Omnivore’s Dilemma promises to change the way we think about the politics and pleasure of eating. For anyone who reads it, dinner will never again look, or taste, quite the same. "
When I read it again it will be with a highlighter in my hand because there are so many interesting facts that I recognize as true but have never thought about the implications that our eating habits and farm practices have on our economy and our physical well being and our future and our government lobbies and maybe even politics. I tell you this is a really great book to just chew on.
But one fun thing that happened while I read on this book. Our family group went camping a few weeks ago all the way to LaPine which was hours and hours away. It was unbearably hot. So one day in the afternoon, Bob and I got out our books. He is reading some non-fiction story about an American Indian in the 17th century who travels to Europe. I was reading Omnivore's Dilemma. We decided to each read a sentence from our books alternating between us. It was kind of funny at first. After about 10 minutes.. .they sounded like they were from the same book. We read quite awhile and it was really hilarious. Try it sometime.. DKU
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