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Manufacturer: Harper Perennial
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 641.0973
EAN: 9780060852566
ISBN: 0060852569
Label: Harper Perennial
Manufacturer: Harper Perennial
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 400
Publication Date: 2008-05-01
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Release Date: 2008-04-29
Studio: Harper Perennial
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Author Barbara Kingsolver and her family abandoned the industrial-food pipeline to live a rural life—vowing that, for one year, they'd only buy food raised in their own neighborhood, grow it themselves, or learn to live without it. Part memoir, part journalistic investigation, Animal, Vegetable, Miracle is an enthralling narrative that will open your eyes in a hundred new ways to an old truth: You are what you eat.
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Summary: Best book of the year
Comment: This is the best book I read in 2007.
The great writer, Barbara Kingsolver, chronicles a year in the life of her family as they move back to a family farm in Appalachia to grow all their own food for a year. It is a wonderfully entertaining and wise month-by-month narrative which speaks to our conncction with food, the land, and the planet.
Along the way, Ms. Kingsolver's teenage daughter and
her professor husband also offer their perspectives on the family's adventures.
Most people who take up this book cannot put it down.
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Summary: A book everyone should read
Comment: Barbara Kingsolver has written a very important book which everyone should read! It is filled with environmental and nutritional information and it's a fascinating account of the pleasures and trials of feeding oneself and one's family almost entirely with home-grown products!
Of the four of us who listened to this audio cd in the car, nobody thought Kingsolver had a particularly good reading voice, but the material always made up for it! Given the choice though, I'd say read the book.
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Summary: Animal, Vegetable, Miracle
Comment: Barbara Kingsolver does a great job at portraying her year living on a farm, raising her own poultry, growing her own produce, and buying locally without being too preachy or political. The commentary that was include by her husband and daughter was useful and complemented the book. I recommend this for anyone who is curious about why we should eat organic and local foods. It was a very insightful and enjoyable read.
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Summary: Funny, informative, thought-provoking
Comment: This story of a family's journey into eating local for one year is entertaining, informative, and thought-provoking. While I don't have a farm to take on quite what they have, I will be making local choices for years to come as a result of reading this book.
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Summary: Not Preachy, Not Technical, Just a Good Earthy Story
Comment: This book introduced me to Barbara Kingsolver. I liked her writing style so much I went on to read many of her other writings which I also enjoyed.
This book is the story of her family's journey from a rather typical American lifestyle to something far more fulfilling, rewarding, interesting and sustainable. I feared it might be a bit preachy, but I didn't find it to be at all. I found it to be earthy, hearty, informative but not technical, funny (I laughed out loud on several occasions) and yet it had an air of class and charm all at once. It is definitely a "green" book with an underlying sense of urgency, but it was refreshingly subtle compared to similar books I've read. Rather than being filled with "You must all do ___ or the world is going to end!" it was more about "We decided to do ___ for ourselves as a family. It makes sense to us, it feels right and it works very well."
Sometimes I felt like I was on the farm with her, learning for the first time how to coax my own food from the earth and changing at a fundamental level how I contribute my energy, my money, my life to this country I love so much. She seems always to contemplate how her decisions will affect the world around her and act accordingly, and has created a beautiful and bountiful life around that. Go Barbara. I admire you and the life you've created.
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