Took a day or two off, reading. Knitting too. But not blogging. Did anyone actually notice?
Don’t answer that. Thanks.
My stack of books to read continues to grow. So many interesting books out there, and now it is compounded by my discovery of a site called Good Reads. If you type in a book you like, you get recommendations for other books. You can rate the books you have read, make a list of those you’d like to read, read comments and ratings about books, and sometimes get a first chapter to read to on your computer.
Meanwhile, back at the Adirondack chair, these books are in progress:
1. My Natural History: the evolution of a gardner by Liz Primeau is a memoir by a woman who is probably in her late 70s. She is wise, funny, honest, practical, and interesting. She grew up in Canada, didn’t finish high school, and became a gardening magazine editor and writer and even hosted a television program on gardening. She knows a ton about gardening and describes things so well that I am THERE. I want to live where gardening isn’t a war with deer, gophers, bugs, drought, poor soil and weird diseases. I want to spend every spare minute growing things, designing a garden, and watching Perkins catch gophers.
Dream on, Toots.
(Cousin Maggie, I think you would really enjoy My Natural History)
2. Amish Peace by Suzanne Woods Fisher was recommended to me by my dear friend Natalie. It is filled with short chapters about different qualities of Amish life, and each chapter ends with a set of questions to help you examine your life. I leave this book at the cabin where I can read slowly and think.
Or, I could read slowly if I didn’t have that giant stack of books taunting me.
3. Young For Life by Marilyn Diamond and her husband whom she calls “Dr. Rock” is giving me nutritional whiplash. It goes against almost all I have believed and lived dietarily for the past 30 years. (The exception is my aversion to processed foods.) Cholesterol and saturated fat are GOOD FOR YOU?? Not tied to being fat? Not the cause of heart disease? Eating low and non-fat foods is making us fat?? And sugar is the big enemy, dang it. Although some of the writing hints of conspiracy theories, I think there might be something to this.
Bummer. I really don’t like meat very much. On the other hand, please pass the butter!
P.S. I don’t have a Kindle and most of my books come from the local library. If I buy a book, I usually find it used on Amazon. Just saying.
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Marilyn Diamond’s work has influenced every vegan & vegetarian celebrity and natural health guru out there since her 20 million selling diet book Fit For Life was published in the mid 1980’s. But after living the most pure form of a vegan/vegetarian diet for well over 35 years, she found herself in rapidly declining health. Her ultra pure vegan lifestyle ravaged her body and prematurely aged her. Young For Life is about the superstar of the vegetarian movement returning to peak health by adding animal products back into her diet. Doing that saved her life and reversed the signs of aging inside her body and out. It’s controversial, no doubt. To the millions who followed her Fit For Life message it’s downright heretical. But it works! Plain and simple. And the science is on her side. The good science. Not the flimsy, observational science books like The China Study are based on. YFL turns the argument for a vegan diet on it’s head– by the woman who pioneered it and lived it for over 3 decades!! Be prepared to un-think the nutritional advice you THOUGHT was correct. Keep an open mind. It might just change your health for the better! It changed mine and I was a complete and total cynic. I remember being genuinely surprised as I read each chapter. Honestly, I thought she had lost her mind. But Marilyn and her husband Rock are on to something. Something big! After doing my own research and fact checking, I finished YFL determined to put her new program to the test. Now I’m 65 pounds (and counting) lighter and all the aches and pains that I thought were part of getting older have pretty much disappeared. Years of brain fog finally lifted and I have smooth, stable energy all day long. And I finally know what it’s like to sleep deeply through the night. I think it’s pretty clear that I’m no longer a cynic about this way of eating and working out!
Jana, I’m not active on Good Reads, but I do think I started an account there awhile back. I know it would be interesting and lots of fun, but I’m having trouble keeping up with everything. Glad you’re enjoying it!
No kidding, Cheryl! LinkedIn, Google Plus, FB (which I don’t do), all the wonderful blogs, Pinterest. . . it is overwhelming. We could keep up if we didn’t need to sleep, eat, work, exercise, keep our homes running, and spend some time contemplating matters of consequence. (Notice I didn’t even mention reading, knitting or praying!)
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