books

I have plenty of things to blog about but then I sit down to write and my head goes blank.  I think it's a combination of stress and the certainty that anything I debate in my head at this stage of life is foolish or uninteresting, which, while possibly true, is not an excuse for not writing it down. There is one topic I keep coming back to and at least remembering when I sit, and that's what I've been reading lately, so that's what you're going to get.

First up is Michael Pollan's newest book - Cooked.  It's a history of why we cook our food, and the methods etc.  It's supposed to be that, at least.  It's really more a discussion of how to cook a few specific dish in each section.  I've enjoyed the writing he did on cooking one pot meals more than the discussion on barbecuing and I'm really looking forward to the section on fermentation.

Let It Go by Karen Ehman - this is the Christian reading I'm doing.  It's a book about learning to let go of controlling situations, which I think is something we should all be reading.  A great book but an awful writing style.

Rural Free by Rachel Peden - a farmwife's journal from decades ago, excellent.  I love journals and her writing is exquisite.

Hens Dancing by Raffaella Barker - I don't know yet since I've only just started but I'm thinking this might be a romance.  If this is the case I won't like it.

There you go.  I wish the list were more interesting but, well, that's about it for me these days.