Jimi loves to be read to, but he also loves to read to us. One of his favorite topics right now is Spiderman. He also likes A,B,C, and number books and animal books and trucks, cars, and other modes of transportation books. He also likes books by Mercer Mayer like:
Are you lucky enough to have a child to read to?
The greatest gift is the passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind. It is a moral illumination.
Elizabeth Hardwick, 1916 -
Elizabeth Hardwick at librarySupportStaff.com
Elizabeth Hardwick at Wikipedia.org
The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals
A book to chew on is Michael Pollan's The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals. This is one of the current books that I am reading and I am about 75% through with its' 400+ pages. It has kept and is keeping my attention because of its subject matter and because Pollan writes in a personable and understandable style about matters scientific. May I rely on our library's catalog entry to list these matters?
Introduction: our national eating disorder -- Industrial: corn. The plant: corn's conquest -- The farm -- The elevator -- The feedlot: making meat -- The processing plant: making complex foods -- The consumer: a republic of fat -- The meal: fast food -- Pastoral: grass. All flesh is grass -- Big organic -- Grass: thirteen ways of looking at a pasture -- The animals: practicing complexity -- Slaughter: in a glass abattoir -- The market: "greetings from the non-barcode people" -- The meal: grass-fed -- Personal: the forest. The forager -- The omnivore's dilemma -- The ethics of eating animals -- Hunting: the meat -- Gathering: the fungi -- The perfect meal.
If you have ever had an interest in eating--and I know that I do-- or wonder how different qualities and types of food eventually arrive to our plates, then this is a book for you. Plentiful history-- food growing techniques, food processing, food transportation, food selling, food prices, and food government regulations history are packed into this book. Along with this history are the histories of some remarkable individuals and institutions connected with food production and merchandising.
Interwoven with the above topics throughout the book is the story of how food decisions have impacted and continue to impact our environment and individuals negatively and possible methods for reversing such impacts. This book is shelved ad Dewey Decimal # 394.12 Pol
For detailed information:
Pollan investigates the three food chains: Indistrial, Organic, and Personal.
The Omnivore at Wikipedia.org.
Ny Times Review of The Omnivore
By the way, The New York Times voted Pollan's book one of the 10 best of 2006 (See Wikipedia citation above)
Have You Ever Heard of Christopher Paolini, Eragon, Eldest, and Montana?
For me, until about two weeks ago, of the four topics above, I had just heard about the state of Montana. Recently, I found out from talking to some people and cruising the Internet (I don't surf that much) that Christopher Paolini is a 24-year old writer working in Montana. When he was 15, he began writing the outline for his science fiction.
Our library has the first two volumes he has 
written: Eragon (Inheritance Cycle #1) (2003) and Eldest (2005). Though he has targeted the series toward younger readers, apparently many older readers are enjoying it. Many people have been waiting for the announcement of the publication date of the third volume, as yet untitled. Paolini has announced that this third volume has become larger than he thought it would be and a fourth volume will be needed to conclude his series in a pleasing, entertaining, and logical manner. 
The third volume will be published in September 2008.
Eragon and Eldest are available for sale at local booksellers and at online booksellars like Hastings and Amazon and Barnes and Noble The two books also come as a boxed set and other materials are also available related to the series.
I am taking a wild guess here, but I bet you that the creatures pictured on the covers of these two books do not work for the "Welcome Wagons" in their respective communities, don't you agree?
Christopher Paolini at Book Browse
The books that help you the most are those which make you think the most.
Theodore Parker, 1810 - 1860 -
Theodore Parker at Wikipedia.org
© Bob Hoff, 2007
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