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I 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.
