i finished eugenia kim’s the calligrapher’s daughter yesterday and started barbara kingsolver’s food memoir today. i am plowing through books like i just discovered the written word (having time to read on the bus helps). i’m only 20 pages into this new book and i’m hooked. granted, i’m a willing audience: i shop and adore my farmers’ market, i try to use as few bags/sacks/plastic as possible, i recycle, i believe in reusable everything (travel mugs, silverware, tupperware, fixing the appliance rather than buying new), and i grow my own herbs and produce in my small urban planters as often as i can. so ms. kingsolver and her family have already convinced me of their message and the way she writes is just the topping on the cake. if i didn’t already care so much about locally grown food, she could convince me with little resistance.
m + j
