This morning I went on a green housekeeping book binge at the library in the hopes of finding something good to write a book review about for publication in my neighborhood newsletter. Let me tell you right now, The Lazy Environmentalist On A Budget by Josh Dorfman has not made the cut.
( Care to read why? )

Organic Housekeeping by Ellen Sandbeck

I haven’t finished this book yet but I’m not sure I ever will. I borrowed it from a friend thinking that it would be a book full of Earth-friendly cleaning recipes. While it is Earth-friendly it is not a user-friendly book.

First of all, there are no clearly laid out recipes in Organic Housekeeping. A book like ( Read more... )

Ok,  "Social Networking for books" makes it sound like all my books are going to get their own MySpace pages or something. What I'm actually talking about is Good Reads. A friend just mentioned it this afternoon, and I have been sucked in. It's a listing/book review site, but what I like is that it covers all books you've read, not just "books I ( Read more... )

On Friday my MIL forwarded me an email about Barbara Kingsolver's new book, Animal, Vegetable, Miracle. Not an hour later I heard an interview with Kingsolver on WPR. I very rarely buy hardcovers, but I immediately made plans to pick up a copy at A Room of One's Own (indy feminist bookstore downtown).

Wow. I just started reading it last night. At ( Read more... )