After reading a number of addiction memoirs – generally meth, food, alcohol – I’ve realized what I expect from them. Believability? Nope. Give it to me larger than life – the more drugs used, the better; the more weight lost, the more intriguing. I want the story to be big and ugly – the author [...]
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One of my favorite children’s books is The Lion and the Little Red Bird. It’s a gorgeous book with plenty of lessons for children about caring for others, making connections in spite of differences, and weathering the storms of friendship. But what I always think about when I read it to the kids are the [...] I finished reading A Million Little Pieces today and amidst the craziness of kids and cats in the house, I paused and breathed in the intensity of that book. Yeah, yeah, it’s an Oprah Book Club pick and it sells for a penny on Amazon, so it’s as mainstream as they get and probably very [...] Last night I finished Tweak: Growing Up on Methamphetamines by a young author named Nic Sheff. I had already read his father’s book, Beautiful Boy: A Father’s Journey Through His Son’s Addiction, so I had a sense of this young man’s journey using meth and going into rehab – over and over again – ruining [...] No More Bull!: The Mad Cowboy Targets America’s Worst Enemy: Our Diet by Howard Lyman The Mad Cowboy rides again! The long-awaited continuation of his rants and raves on veganism and politics comes through as madcap as ever but with a smart edge that promises to leave a trail of vegan converts. We all know someone [...] In our small shelf of unapologetic, self-deprecating, humorous books about veganism, You Don’t Have To Be a Treehugger To Be a Vegan stands out at the top. The reputation vegans have for being radical and humorless is dashed by this book – it’s a guaranteed laugh. This is the vegan advocacy book to give your [...] By the time I read the Ingredients introduction of Vegan Cupcakes Take Over the World: 75 Dairy-Free Recipes for Cupcakes that Rule, I was a convert to the beauty and amazement of cupcakes. I always knew they were yummy, but how often to we think about them? Authors, vegan activists and cupcake scientists Moskowitz and [...] Seeds of Deception: Exposing Industry and Government Lies About the Safety of the Genetically Engineered Foods You’re Eating It’s not news that the government and big business have led us astray on multiple levels. Pick up any Adbusters or Mother Jones magazine and you’ll find a plethora of ways corporations have sold the environment, animals and [...] |
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