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I picked up this book because Carrie (or CKHB) from Heim Binas Fiction mentioned it on her blog. I usually do not buy into this fascination with other culture’s eating habits. I do not believe the answer rests into what others eat. I do not think that America’s weight problem is caused by the wrong local diet, but by a too processed diet. I think that people from each region of the world should eat the food that is easily available to them in their own area. I think that local food is the food that our bodies need.

I feel like a bad reviewer. I won’t be able to do a good job with this book because it really didn’t capture my attention much and I had difficulty convincing myself to finish it. It is a very long…

I have a long history with this book. I first picked it up from the library half a year ago and was not able to go through it, so I returned it promptly after three weeks. A month ago someone mentioned the book to me at a party. A week after that, the minister in my church mentioned the book in a sermon. A day after that I found out that there is a book discussion about the book also and that was when I picked it up again from the library. And I found in it, waiting, a preschool card of my daughter’s which I hadn’t even realized I had lost. I was probably using it as a bookmark. So, you know, some faith was involved in the story of me and this book.

I thought I would never finish this book. It seemed the impossible feat. I am still not very clear why.

I loved the title of this book: Urgent Message from Mother: Gather the Women, Save the World. Sounds good, right? Sounds good to me. I had to bring it home. Well, it is not as interesting as it seemed at…

I am living the dream. I get to stay at home, work and take care of my family at the same time, which is important to me. Being a solitary, introvert type, this arrangement suits me very well. It also…

There will be many more pictures from this magical place that I will share on the blog. Coming back to the blog feels a bit awkward. It’s been a long time since I have felt inspired to write here. I…

When he died, the Russians felt that they lost not only a writer of genius, but a spiritual leader. He was Russia’s prophet. In all his stories, Dostoyevsky comes back to his relationship with God. He writes about Jesus Christ,…

So I was in this mood to read writers’ biographies. Women writers, to be more exact. As I was sitting in the children’s section of the library, and my daughter was making a mess of all the toys out there, I grabbed a computer and started to do some research. I filled up five small pieces of paper I had found around (announcing a Halloween movie showing at the library) with titles and when the child was ready to go, we passed through the non-fiction room and picked out two books. One was Pagan Time and the other Kitchen Privileges. I did not achieve much of what I was expecting with none of these books. Pagan Time is a book about a child who grows up in a commune. The fact that the child becomes a writer at some point in her life is irrelevant for the story (if you don’t consider the aspect that the child-now-writer actually wrote this book). Kitchen Privileges is simply not such a great book.