Books

World War Z

This is the year of the Zombie for me. It is the popular choice for horror characters so I’m well within cultural norms. World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War by Max Brooks is written in Studs Terkel journalism style. Chapters are presented as a series of first-hand interviews from people in […]

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Beautiful Ruins

Beautiful Ruins by Jess Walter was the November book club pick. It has mixed reviews from our group with most of us shrugging and saying “meh.” The fiction revolves around 1962 when Richard Burton impregnates an actress on the set of Cleopatra when he was supposed to be in love with Liz Taylor. The story

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Nutrition as Religion

My acupuncturist said I should go on the Gerson diet. I rolled my eyes. After being vegan for 5 years and countless vegetarian years, I am exhausted of food restrictions. DH even rejected the Gerson diet when he sought alternative cancer treatments. Gerson therapy is a form of alternative cancer treatment involving coffee enemas, supplements,

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F 451

I admit that I was the only adult in America who had never read Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451. I have no idea why this wasn’t required reading in high school except to remember that we didn’t read many classics at all. In my quest to read source materials from which countless references are made, I

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