- The Ask and the Answer- Patrick Ness
- Monsters of Men - Patrick Ness
- Divergent - Veronica Roth
- Insurgent- Veronica Roth
- Allegiant - Veronica Roth
- Work - Louisa May Alcott
- The Song of the Lark - Willa Cather
- The Member of the Wedding - Carson McCullers
- Kindred - Octavia Butler
- Dreaming In Cuban - Christina Garcia
- My Year of Meats - Ruth L. Ozeki
- Tracks - Louise Erdrich
- The Dark Tower - Stephen King
- The Year of the Flood - Margaret Atwood
- The Book Thief - Markus Zusak
- Throne of Glass - Sarah J. Maas
- The Chimera Vector - Nathan M. Farrugia
- Maze Runner - James Dashner
- Maddaddam - Margaret Atwood
- The Scorch Trials - James Dashner
- Pines - Blake Crouch
- Wayward - Blake Crouch
- The Last Town - Blake Crouch
- The Death Cure - James Dashner
- Storm Front - Jim Butcher
- Armada - Ernest Cline
- 1984 - Orwell, George
- Gone Girl - Gillian Flynn
- Fool Moon - Jim Butcher
- Grave Peril - Jim Butcher
- Summer Knight - Jim Butcher
- Death masks - Jim Butcher
- Blood Rites - Jim Butcher
- Dead Beat - Jim Butcher
- The Martian - Andy Weir
- Proven Guilty - Jim Butcher
- White Night - Jim Butcher
- Turn Coat - Jim Butcher
- Aurian - Maggie Furey
- Harp of Winds - Maggie Furey
- Richard III - William Shakespeare
- Monstrous Regiment - Terry Pratchett
Thursday, December 31, 2015
2015 Books
Monday, December 21, 2015
My Year of Meats - Ruth L. Ozeki
If you happen to be an omnivore that is completely uninterested in knowing what happened to your steak or pork chop before it hit your table, this may not be the book for you.
From the back cover: When documentarian Jane Takagi-Little finally lands a job producing My American Wife!, a Japanese television show sponsored by an American meat-exporting business, she discovered some unsavory truths about love, fertility, and a hormone called DES. Meanwhile, on the other side of the globe, Akiko Ueno, a beleaguered Japanese housewife, struggles to escape from her child-craving husband. When Jane's and Akiki's lives intersect, the deepest concerns of our time are illuminated: how the past informs the present and how we live and live in an ever-shrinking world.
So, whoa. Seriously, as I stated above, if you don't want to know anything about how meat gets from the farm to the table, this is not a book you should pick up. If you think eating organic is only for hippies and soft hearted liberals, well you're wrong, and this book is also not for you. It is definitely fiction for feminists, which I adore to the very core of my being. I also enjoy fiction that can be entertaining and educational without being overly obvious about it. The writing shows Ozeki did some seriously in depth research--she even includes her resources in the back of the book. I am not one to panic over much of anything, though I'm slightly paranoid about getting sick (thank you, Stephen King). We should definitely panic. There are things to panic about. And we are eating them. Willingly chewing up and swallowing un-prescribed antibiotics and hormones. We're setting ourselves up for an epidemic, which most of the population refuses to acknowledge. My parents think I am ridiculous for only consuming organic meat and dairy, but I think they are ridiculous for ignoring signs that are definitely right in front of us. This is a book about exactly that--the research is there, the science hands us the nasty truth.... We shrug, and shovel more crap into our mouths.
I could continue to get even more preachy, but I will end with saying that the novel speaks volumes both culturally and socially. Ozeki writes well, spinning a clear story that is funny and shocking. It will definitely inspire mindful eating, if you're already open to the concept.
From the back cover: When documentarian Jane Takagi-Little finally lands a job producing My American Wife!, a Japanese television show sponsored by an American meat-exporting business, she discovered some unsavory truths about love, fertility, and a hormone called DES. Meanwhile, on the other side of the globe, Akiko Ueno, a beleaguered Japanese housewife, struggles to escape from her child-craving husband. When Jane's and Akiki's lives intersect, the deepest concerns of our time are illuminated: how the past informs the present and how we live and live in an ever-shrinking world.
So, whoa. Seriously, as I stated above, if you don't want to know anything about how meat gets from the farm to the table, this is not a book you should pick up. If you think eating organic is only for hippies and soft hearted liberals, well you're wrong, and this book is also not for you. It is definitely fiction for feminists, which I adore to the very core of my being. I also enjoy fiction that can be entertaining and educational without being overly obvious about it. The writing shows Ozeki did some seriously in depth research--she even includes her resources in the back of the book. I am not one to panic over much of anything, though I'm slightly paranoid about getting sick (thank you, Stephen King). We should definitely panic. There are things to panic about. And we are eating them. Willingly chewing up and swallowing un-prescribed antibiotics and hormones. We're setting ourselves up for an epidemic, which most of the population refuses to acknowledge. My parents think I am ridiculous for only consuming organic meat and dairy, but I think they are ridiculous for ignoring signs that are definitely right in front of us. This is a book about exactly that--the research is there, the science hands us the nasty truth.... We shrug, and shovel more crap into our mouths.
I could continue to get even more preachy, but I will end with saying that the novel speaks volumes both culturally and socially. Ozeki writes well, spinning a clear story that is funny and shocking. It will definitely inspire mindful eating, if you're already open to the concept.
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