lindarlissima 's review for:

Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life by Barbara Kingsolver

4.0

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Three and a half stars rounded up to four just because I think Barbara Kingsolver is an amazing writer and I admire her as a human. I learned a lot from this book and enjoyed the chronicle of the life of this family eating only local for a year. Some of her stories really stayed with me and I found myself for example ruminating on the process of "harvesting" turkeys, and the story of her daughter deciding to sell "only the mean ones" of her chickens for meat. But sometimes it was a bit boring and it was ALWAYS preachy. It really could have been just a long article or at least a much shorter book.