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Reading tagged book 📗

What 12-year-old doesn‘t love potatoes and books?

This is the second Michael Pollan book I‘ve listened to this year, and once again it did not disappoint. He has a keen ability of making his subject accessible to the layperson. In The Botany of Desire his main conceit is to present the reader/listener with a view of humanity from the perspective of 4 different plants: apples, tulips, cannabis, and the potato. I‘m not sure if he really stays true to his thesis, but the plethora of info is great.

Definitely not Ozeki's best but still her trademark frankness and balance of bitter and sweet is too good to resist

This was a random library choice and I finished it because I'm stubborn, but it had its faults: too long, I couldn't stand the one main character and her shitty choices, and when a writer gets basic facts completely wrong, like thinking that human babies are born blind (🤯), that really pisses me off. I'm completely anti GMO. so that part was fine and done okay, just quite dated by now.

This book was recommended to me from one of my students, who is Irish. Nory is a girl who lives in Ireland as the potato famine appears to begin. She watches as her younger brother gets thinner, grandfather has to work… 3-7th grade read. It is rare to come across a book that takes you through the potato famine. This historical fiction was not really educational, but to get a student interested. It didn‘t stay with anything enough to really learn

1. Ireland. I can‘t see myself enjoying a tropical island very much. 😅
2. Probably anything to do with Ireland, especially their fairy tales/mythology or history. Tagged one that‘s been on my radar.
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I‘ve been bad about not tagging peeps, so here‘s some: @The_Penniless_Author @AmyG @Kelly_the_Bookish_Sidekick

If you want to know how and when the complication existed between the England and the Ireland, this is the book you should read.

I‘m back in the #audiosewing game. This jacket‘s coming together pretty well, but I need to do some more aggressive tailoring on the back. It currently pouches out around the waist. I hate that look.

Today‘s work took me a fair ways into ALL OVER CREATION by Ruth Ozeki. Considered alongside MY YEAR OF MEATS, I figure she set out to build a career in the agricultural lit sector but did an about face. Huh.

It‘s the perfect day to begin reading this collection of short stories tied by a marble shamrock. ☘️ I‘m so happy to have been part of this project! (Which hasn‘t been added to Litsy yet, apparently.) Treasures: Visible & Invisible.