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discountchiapetI am really reenergized by having a reading goal. I read very sparsely last year and it made sad. I love to read, and now I have to find time to do it. When I was in school, reading was my job. I just don't want my brain to turn to mush.
7. Serenity: Those Left Behind by Joss Whedon, Brett Matthews, Will Conrad: It was a good graphic novel with true to life pictures. I don't know about you, but I think it's important that they look at least vaguely familiar if it was in another media before. This was a good tie in between the series and the movie. I do wish that they would have delved more into the "blue hands" guys though.
8. Everyday Italian: 125 Simple and Delicious Recipes by Giada De Laurentiis: Great looking, yummy recipes. The food pics are beautiful. Also peppered with pics of Giada too. I'm going to make something soon.
9. Super Crafty : Over 75 Amazing How-to Projects! by Susan Beal, Torie Nguyen, Rachel O'Rourke, Cathy Pitters: Great little book with tons of really cool projects. I have a few marked for when I get some more time. I like the sections that they are divided into. I've been in a crafty slump, but can't wait to make a new shrine.
10. Reefer Madness : Sex, Drugs, and Cheap Labor in the American Black Market by Eric Schlosser: Really interesting. I like the way that Eric Schlosser writes and picked this up ages ago, only to never read it. It's divided into three sections: marijuana, migrant farmworkers and farming conditions, and pornographu. I wish that the marijuana section was longer though. I still don't understand how in some states you will serve more time for 2 joints than you would for killing a person . . . The migrant farmworkers plight is dispicable. People look down on them, when they are trapped in a vicious cycle of sharecropping or extrememly poor working conditions. I took a class on California in college, and this was one of the sections we focused on. And I was a farmworker when I was younger. I picked blueberries in the summer in Oregon. It was much easier than strawberries, and I had a home to go back to at night, but it still fucking sucked. The pornography section was interesting focusing mainly on one porn king.
7. Serenity: Those Left Behind by Joss Whedon, Brett Matthews, Will Conrad: It was a good graphic novel with true to life pictures. I don't know about you, but I think it's important that they look at least vaguely familiar if it was in another media before. This was a good tie in between the series and the movie. I do wish that they would have delved more into the "blue hands" guys though.
8. Everyday Italian: 125 Simple and Delicious Recipes by Giada De Laurentiis: Great looking, yummy recipes. The food pics are beautiful. Also peppered with pics of Giada too. I'm going to make something soon.
9. Super Crafty : Over 75 Amazing How-to Projects! by Susan Beal, Torie Nguyen, Rachel O'Rourke, Cathy Pitters: Great little book with tons of really cool projects. I have a few marked for when I get some more time. I like the sections that they are divided into. I've been in a crafty slump, but can't wait to make a new shrine.
10. Reefer Madness : Sex, Drugs, and Cheap Labor in the American Black Market by Eric Schlosser: Really interesting. I like the way that Eric Schlosser writes and picked this up ages ago, only to never read it. It's divided into three sections: marijuana, migrant farmworkers and farming conditions, and pornographu. I wish that the marijuana section was longer though. I still don't understand how in some states you will serve more time for 2 joints than you would for killing a person . . . The migrant farmworkers plight is dispicable. People look down on them, when they are trapped in a vicious cycle of sharecropping or extrememly poor working conditions. I took a class on California in college, and this was one of the sections we focused on. And I was a farmworker when I was younger. I picked blueberries in the summer in Oregon. It was much easier than strawberries, and I had a home to go back to at night, but it still fucking sucked. The pornography section was interesting focusing mainly on one porn king.
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Date: 2006-03-28 10:19 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-03-29 01:10 am (UTC)I'd love to see some of the stuff you make, if you want to post pics or get together and craft sometime...
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Date: 2006-03-29 11:30 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-03-30 12:41 am (UTC)I'm going to Portland for about a month next Thursday, April 6, so either before that or after I get back on May 8 would be awesome.
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Date: 2006-03-29 03:22 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-03-29 11:31 pm (UTC)If you like books about food, cultural perceptions, and production I have a few I can reccomend when I get home. I took a food and society class in college and really liked it.
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Date: 2006-03-30 02:38 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-04-09 07:06 pm (UTC)*The Garden of Eating: Food, Sex, and the Hunger for Meaning by Jeremy Iggers: Deals with people's relationships with food. Food used to be something we just ate, now it's become politicized and fetishized. It also deals with perceptions of beauty and the american body.
*Nature's Perfect Food: How Milk Became America's Drink by E. Melanie DuPuis: It's about how milk went from something that we regarded as poison and unhealthy to the all American drink and the new awareness that milk isn't all that great for you. It also deals with the rise and change of the middle class and of course nutrition. This made me never want to drink milk again.
*Appetite for Change: How the Counterculture Took on the Food Industry 1966-1988 by Warren J. Belasco: How formerly hippy ideas about food have become part of the mainstream culture through marketing and big business.
*Food Politics: How the Food Industry Influences Nutrition and Health by Marion Nestle: About the great food debate, where we eat too much food, make too much food, and how marketing wants us to eat more. There's a lot about big corporations, marketing, FDA, and genetic engineering.
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Date: 2006-04-10 03:43 pm (UTC)Thanks!