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A review by n8hanson
Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life by Barbara Kingsolver
1.0
A self-satisfied and rambling personal diary of an independently wealthy family's year-long experiment with organic subsistence farming and locally sourced produce.
Her scattered rants about the agricultural industrial complex vs organic farming's nutritional and ecological virtues were informative. But...I was otherwise being suffocated by the inane minutia of her everyday life. I had to tap out at page 157.
Skimming ahead did not look promising: more blathering descriptions of dinner parties, lists of obscure produce varieties, what species of weeds grew in which parts of the garden, her teen kid's essays and food recipes, small talk at the farmers' market, how many eggs each chicken laid, etc etc etc ad nauseum.
Good grief. This book badly needed a competent editor. Kingsolver seemed more in love with writing it than the notion of others enjoying reading it.
Her scattered rants about the agricultural industrial complex vs organic farming's nutritional and ecological virtues were informative. But...I was otherwise being suffocated by the inane minutia of her everyday life. I had to tap out at page 157.
Skimming ahead did not look promising: more blathering descriptions of dinner parties, lists of obscure produce varieties, what species of weeds grew in which parts of the garden, her teen kid's essays and food recipes, small talk at the farmers' market, how many eggs each chicken laid, etc etc etc ad nauseum.
Good grief. This book badly needed a competent editor. Kingsolver seemed more in love with writing it than the notion of others enjoying reading it.