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01/27/08, 05:24 AM
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What are you reading.....
Just finished "The Revolution Will Not Be Microwaved" by Sandor Ellix Katz. Nice read. Also reading "Wild Fermentation " by him. Lots of info and recipes.
Just started "Everything I Want to do is Illegal" by Joel Salatin. Next is "In Defense of Food" by Michael Pollan. Just got that one for my birthday.
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01/27/08, 06:49 AM
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Hillybilly cattle slaves
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Join Date: Nov 2004
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I just finished reading the 'Olive Farm' triliogy by Carol Drinkwater. Drinkwater played Dr. Herriotts wife on the tv show, 'All Creatures Great and Small'. She and her husband Michel, bought an old olive farm in the South of France and during the three books, tells of their experiences trying to revive the farm and get the status to become olive farmers. I found them well written and very interesting.
Laura
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01/27/08, 03:34 PM
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I just started "Monique and the Mango Rains" by Kris Holloway, about a Peace Corps volunteer who spends two years with a midwife in Mali.
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01/27/08, 08:47 PM
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Join Date: Dec 2005
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I'm still re-reading the Left Behind series but moving on along in it.
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01/27/08, 09:30 PM
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Just finished "The Revolution Will Not Be Microwaved" by Sandor Ellix Katz. Nice read. Also reading "Wild Fermentation " by him.
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Ooh, I liked "Wild Fermentation". He makes it sound so easy and has so many interesting recipes, although the bit about fermenting the goat meat was less than appetizing (where's the barfing smiley when you need it).
Right now I'm reading "Gardening When it Counts" by Steve Solomon.
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02/03/08, 09:58 AM
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Join Date: Oct 2004
Location: Louisiana
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Storey's Basic Country Skills------My hubby & kiddos bought this for me for Christmas & I think I will be reading through it for a life time. GREAT book. 
I am about to start Animal, Vegetable, Miracle. I've seen it recommended on several blogs so I'm getting it from the Library tomorrow!
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02/04/08, 01:53 PM
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woolgathering
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Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: mo
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been reading dickens,
just finished a tale of two cities
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02/05/08, 08:14 AM
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Icelandic Sheep
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Join Date: May 2006
Location: Northeast Ohio
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I'm reading "The Omnivore's Dilemma" by Pollan. I'm also STILL reading "Nourishing Traditions" by Fallon. Awesome book!
Just finished "Talk to the Hand" by Truss.
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02/06/08, 08:45 AM
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I usually have three books going on at once .... one for when I sit on the couch and read, one for when I'm sitting at the table or cooking dinner, and one for when I go to bed at night. They are, in that order:
"The End of America: Letter of Warning to a Young Patriot" by Naomi Wolf
"Understanding Thermodynamics" by H. C. Van Ness
"Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH" by Robert C. O'Brien
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02/06/08, 08:53 AM
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Join Date: Jul 2004
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My husband and I just finished our read-aloud book: "Out Stealing Horses" by Per Petterson. It was very masculine, very beautiful, very evocative. The writing is excellent.
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02/06/08, 04:51 PM
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Join Date: Dec 2005
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The Way Of Ignorance:And Other Essays
Wendell Berry
It's classic Wendell Berry 
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02/06/08, 08:08 PM
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"Gardening When It Counts" by Steve Solomon.
.....Alan.
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02/07/08, 12:03 PM
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bunny slave
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Join Date: Jun 2004
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Originally Posted by Ernie
I usually have three books going on at once .... one for when I sit on the couch and read, one for when I'm sitting at the table or cooking dinner, and one for when I go to bed at night. They are, in that order:
"The End of America: Letter of Warning to a Young Patriot" by Naomi Wolf
"Understanding Thermodynamics" by H. C. Van Ness
"Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH" by Robert C. O'Brien
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Oh. what a good one...and how appropriate in the Year of the Rat!
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02/07/08, 01:43 PM
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Just finished Ten Acres Enough by Edmund Morris for the second time.
Great book, with some interesting ideas on manure that I am going to try.
Mike
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02/07/08, 10:09 PM
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Just finished Final Exit by Derek Humphry. Probably not the best introduction to the topic, rather this is about the act. Will eventually check out his others "Let Me Die Before I Wake" and "The Right to Die"
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02/10/08, 05:03 PM
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I'm reading The Golden Compass, finally. Just finished The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck.
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02/10/08, 09:54 PM
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I recently finished "DOC SUSIE", by Virginia Cornell. I absolutley LOVED the book & was sad to get to the end.It's a true story about a Young woman doctor in Colorado back country mountains who cared for miners & lumbering men & their families .Such a terrific story. It took place in the early 1900's. I doubt if I'll part with this one. It's a keeper.But the last I looked, other copies were available on Paperbackswap.com . 
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02/10/08, 10:04 PM
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I also just finished "The Borning Room", by Paul Fleischman. It is a story about a family during the Civil War era who lived in an Ohio farmhouse.The 'Borning Room' was a designated room where children were born and also where loved ones died.
Good story, fast read.
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02/11/08, 07:27 AM
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I just started Step on a Crack by James Patterson. he has a new protagonist. Det. Bell with 10 children
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02/11/08, 08:22 AM
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Just finished Animal, Vegetable, Miracle and have been so busy with the garden that I haven't started a new one yet.
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02/11/08, 08:38 PM
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Chief cook & weed puller
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I just finished reading The Gluten Connection, and am currently reading John Dies at the End, I think by David Wong.
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02/12/08, 08:32 AM
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Just happy to be here!
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"How to survive without a salary" by Charles Long. Conserver lifestyle versus consumer lifestyle.
DH thinks I am totally lost.
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02/13/08, 03:42 PM
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CF, Classroom & Books Mod
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I'm currently in the middle of Shutter Island by Dennis Lehane. I have to say, I'm underwhelmed. I don't know why... I guess I'd really rather be reading a Patricia Cornwell or an Elizabeth George novel, but honestly, Cornwell's Scarpetta novels are getting a bit tired, and I've read everything there is by Elizabeth George.
*SIGH* I'm really in need of another good murder mystery writer, and I thought Lehane might be it -- being the author of Mystic River and all -- but I think I might have expected too much. I'm having a difficult time getting into this book.
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02/14/08, 10:26 AM
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Join Date: Nov 2004
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Originally Posted by veme
The Way Of Ignorance:And Other Essays
Wendell Berry
It's classic Wendell Berry
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Is there any other kind of Wendell Berry?
(I'm reading "The Gift of Good Land" BTW  )
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02/19/08, 02:46 PM
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Just finished "The year of the goat 40,000 miles in search of cheese" really liked it. Lot's of interesting info. I'm in the middle of animal veg miracle like it alot. lots to think about.
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02/19/08, 02:58 PM
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"Hardy Citrus for the Southeast" by Tom McClendon.
.....Alan.
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02/20/08, 06:48 AM
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Finishing up an older book "Three Against the Wilderness" by Eric Collier. I've read this before but I usually have to read it about every other year, to get my wilderness fix again. I think it is out of print now but if you ever find a copy it's a good one to read.
tyusclan momma
P.S. I'm reading the titles here for my next one to read.
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02/20/08, 06:59 PM
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Gentlemen and Players
Tracy Rimmer, you might enjoy a mystery I read a couple of years ago. It's called "Gentlemen and Players" and it's written by Joanne Harris. It takes place in a boys' private school.
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02/22/08, 08:45 PM
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AKA Dreamy
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Montana Sky Nora Roberts
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02/23/08, 04:31 AM
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Took a break from my "list" and read Little Earthquakes by Jennifer Weiner. Cute, easy read fiction.
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