catching up

Oh you guys, I have been a terrible reader/reporter.  Let me try to catch up.

I loved "The Selected Works of T.S. Spivet" immensely.  The protagonist is a delightful little boy and I want to hug him.  It's an interesting, heartwarming story, and it has such a unique style.  There's a moment where I was afraid it was going to get Oprah's-book-clubby, but thankfully it did not.  I highly recommend it.

I'm reading "Cooked" and seething about the people who call Michael Pollan an anti-feminist food scold.  Have they ever actually read any of his books?

I read "The Cooking of Provincial France," one of the Time-Life series of books.  I loved it, because it's written by M.F.K. Fisher, whose convictions are similar to mine.  So far I've only cooked the savory crepes from it, and I was not as attendant to the recipe as I should have been, but they were good.

Next I'm going to read "Salt Sugar Fat" and "Birds of America."

go check out "the selected works of t.s. spivet" right now

I cannot adequately describe this book or recommend it highly enough.  I'm only about halfway through, so you have time to catch up if you go check it out right now.  Then we can talk about it.  I love this book something fierce.  It's like nothing I've ever read before.  It's not exciting, per se, but it is very interesting.