Animal,
Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life
By: Barbara Kingsolver
Genre: adult nonfiction
Pages: 370
Published: 2007
Read: June
3 out of 5
I read this book
only to help a co-worker with her new garden book club. We both thought I would
hate it. I have never gardened and don’t particularly enjoy the task. Plus, I am
aware I am not as health food conscious as I should be. I did hate it at the
beginning but not because of the reasons I thought. I felt Kingsolver’s voice
came across as conceited and she often made snide remarks directed to those
readers that don’t have her same beliefs. However, I ended up being pleasantly
surprised by this book. As I read on I learned a lot and she seemed to cool her
opinions quite a bit. I look forward to trying most of her recipes. My favorite
section of her book was Camille’s (her oldest daughter) journal entries. She
provided great insight to her feelings on the new way of living her family was
attempting. The entire family admitted it was very time consuming and sometimes
hard to avoid their favorite food. In the end, I was inspired.
Here is a picture of my copy after I read it and took notes:
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