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Comment by Amy Spencer on September 24, 2009 at 7:46pm

In Defense of Food by Michael Pollan

Comment by Amy Spencer on November 18, 2008 at 7:50pm

Lottery by Patricia Wood - a thought-provoking but easy, enjoyable read about a developmentally delayed man who wins the lottery

Comment by Brian Green-Young on October 10, 2008 at 9:22pm

Monster of God: The Man Eating Predator in the Jungles of History and the Mind by David Quammen
Just finished reading this for the second time. Very entertaining and readable book on ecology of large predators and how human actions can preserve endangered species.

Comment by Starr Luteri-Hicks on August 20, 2008 at 8:30am

Amy, I love Barbara Kingsolver! I was transported by her Prodigal Summer, back to the hills of eastern KY. I was disappointed when that book ended because I was so involved in the lives of the characters. I'll definitely hunt down Animal, Veg, etc.

Comment by Paige on July 26, 2008 at 8:39am

Good morning, fellow readers!

The most important tidbit about the book I just finished, "Look at Me", by Jennifer Egan, is that it is the book-of-the-month of ASU's online book club. Just having joined, I'm reluctant to give the group (organized under the aegis of the Virginia Piper School of Creative Writing) an all out green light. Still, it's great to read books one wouldn't necessarily select on her/his own and (particularly for non-English majors like moi) it's fascinating to see how different people react to the same book. Here's the website:
http://www.asu.edu/pipercwcenter/bookclub/index.html.

About "Look at Me": definitely worth your time. Captures the current zeitgist[s] -- describes the "soup" of contemporary culture and what it is doing to our souls, our inner lives.

Happiest regards,

Paige

Comment by Amy Spencer on July 18, 2008 at 12:09pm

Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life by Barbara Kingsolver with Steven L. Hopp and Camille Kingsolver