You guys sure do love your built-in bookshelves! Now a question about filling them:
I’m a big reader (I think most of us who drool over bookshelves are). I’m looking for some new stuff to read. Lately if I’m at the bookstore I just end up wandering aimlessly and end up buying a calender or a magazine or something. Way too overwhelmed by all the choices and can’t seem to remember what I’ve heard of recently. ...

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This was me, most of the weekend. Buried up to my eyebrows in Barbara Kingsolver’s Animal, Vegetable, Miracle. On the bus, at Boyfriends, on my couch, sprawled across the floor. I couldn’t put it down.
In the (non-fiction) book, Kingsolver and her family choose to eat only locally grown/produced food for one year (with only minor, inescapable exceptions like coffee, which they purchase free-trade). The family has relocated to a farm in Appalachia and conveniently ...

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