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Lindy P

Lindy P

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I chose Rosie the pig as my photo because I'm a glutton for books.
See my book blog at http://lindypratch.blogspot.com/
  • Edmonton, AB, Canada
  • member since November 22, 2008

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  • Hagiography
    • Rated 3 stars

    “baffling... in the way of dream language... but I liked the imagery”

    Lindy P wrote this review Tuesday, May 10, 2011. ( reply | permalink )
  • 006 and a Half: A Daisy Book
    • Rated 3 stars

    “I loved the premise, but was disappointed that Daisy gave up too easily and that it was her mother who came to the rescue instead of Daisy having her own Harriet the Spy resilience.”

    Lindy P wrote this review Thursday, November 11, 2010. ( reply | permalink )
  • People of the Book
    • Rated 4 stars

    “The romance aspect detracted from an otherwise very interesting story. I loved the glimpses into earlier times.”

    Lindy P wrote this review Friday, October 29, 2010. ( reply | permalink )
  • The Dreaming, Volume 1
    • Rated 3 stars

    “a readalike for girls who enjoyed Libba Bray's A Great and Terrible Beauty”

    Lindy P wrote this review Saturday, August 7, 2010. ( reply | permalink )
  • Food Rules
    • Rated 3 stars

    “Food Rules is a compendium of 64 simple statements of food wisdom, one to a page. It answers the question "What should I eat?" Pollan already answered this question with his previous book, In Defense of Food. In both books, he narrows the response to 7 words:
    Eat food.
    Mostly plants.
    Not too much.
    Food Rules doesn't really offer much that In Defense of Food does not, but it is much shorter.

    One thing that annoyed me was that Pollan perpetuates the myth of food combining. He states that beans eaten with corn will supply amino acids missing from corn and therefore create a complete protein. In fact, vegetables and grains all have complete protein and do not need to be combined in the human diet. It is important to eat a wide variety of foods, but that is not for the reason of protein complementarity. Scientists debunked the food combining myth decades ago.”

    Lindy P wrote this review Wednesday, March 10, 2010. ( reply | permalink )
  • Eating Animals
    • Rated 4 stars

    “Jonathan Safran Foer uses an entertaining combination of philosophy, folklore, science, research and memoir to expose why choosing to eat a vegetarian diet makes sense. 99% of meat is raised in industrial circumstances. Because only 1% is raised on farms with decent animal husbandry and environmental practices, Foer makes it clear that the choice is between cruelty and ecological destruction on one hand, and ceasing to eat animals on the other. He takes Michael Pollan to task for sidestepping this ethical issue in The Omnivore's Dilemma. Pollan writes "I have to say there is a part of me that envies the moral clarity of the vegetarian... Yet part of me pities him , too. Dreams of innocence [...] depend on a denial of reality that can be its own form of hubris." I agree with Foer - Pollan is the one who denies reality when he chooses to ignore what he learns about industrial agriculture and continues to eat meat.”

    Lindy P wrote this review Wednesday, March 10, 2010. ( reply | permalink )
  • Becoming Billie Holiday
    • Rated 4 stars

    “Carole Boston Weatherford used first person and free verse to narrate the life an unwanted child named Eleanora Fagan who grew up to become a Harlem jazz legend. Art by Floyd Cooper suits this tale of bittersweet triumphs; his grainy images are predominantly in rich shades of brown.

    Almost all of the poems borrow their titles from Billie Holiday's songs. In "Our Love is Different" there is mention of the double standard commonly experienced by young bisexuals, even today: "Mom wouldn't hear / of my boyfriends sleeping over / but never said a word when I brought / girls home: prostitutes, socialites / and stars. I won't drop names / but I had them call me 'Bill.' " When I finished this book, I immediately had to listen to some of Billie's music. (Grade 7 - adult)”

    Lindy P wrote this review Monday, March 8, 2010. ( reply | permalink )
  • A Village Life

    A Village Life

    by Louise Glück
    • Rated 5 stars

    “The setting for this collection is a timeless Mediterranean village in the hills, not too close to the sea. There's a fountain in the plaza, a cafe, a bar, a catholic church. Figs and olives and wheat grow there. We step into the simple homes; kitchens, bedrooms, corridors. Moments are calmly examined. Joy, love, sadness and loneliness are details in the greater cycle of the seasons; what it feels like to be human is contrasted with the geography of a place. Highly recommended.”

    Lindy P wrote this review Monday, March 8, 2010. ( reply | permalink )
  • A Brief History of Montmaray
    • Rated 5 stars

    “Set in 1936 and written in the style of a journal, it was immediately obvious why this book has drawn comparisons to Dodie Smith's I Capture the Castle: the voice of the 16-year-old narrator, Sophie. She lives in a castle - a fortified house, excuse me - on a small island in the Bay of Biscay, off the coast of France. Montmaray is an island nation with only a handful of people left on it besides Sophie and her uncle, the mad King John of Montmaray. They have fallen on financial hard times and things are about to get even more difficult with the arrival of some Nazi Germans. Highly recommended for Grade 7 through to adult.”

    Lindy P wrote this review Monday, February 8, 2010. ( reply | permalink )
  • The Lacuna
    • Rated 5 stars

    “People tend to believe whatever they read or hear in the media. That's one of the central themes of The Lacuna, Barbara Kingsolver's historical saga set in the 1930s and '40s. Frida Kahlo, Diego Rivera and their distinguished guest, Leon Trotsky, appear to be immune to the lies told about them. A young gay man who works for them, Harrison Shepherd, has a much harder time accepting this fault of the press - and the public. Shepherd had a lonely childhood as the son of a Mexican mother who left her gringo American husband and sought male company and financial support wherever she could. The story is told through Shepherd's journals, starting from about age 12. His voice is kind, diffident and witty and captured me from the moment I began reading his amazing life story.”

    Lindy P wrote this review Monday, February 8, 2010. ( reply | permalink )
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