Comments on: Being a bookworm: Plenty http://beancounter.blogsome.com/2008/05/07/being-a-bookworm-plenty/ Writings on sustainable, conscious and thrifty living Fri, 05 Sep 2008 15:13:01 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=1.5.1-alpha by: Beany http://beancounter.blogsome.com/2008/05/07/being-a-bookworm-plenty/#comment-539 Fri, 27 Jun 2008 19:25:02 +0100 http://beancounter.blogsome.com/2008/05/07/being-a-bookworm-plenty/#comment-539 katrina: those are good points and I agree the authors did have quite a challenge to contend with since they began their challenge before Kingsolver began hers. So they were pioneers in that regard, and not having kids to help out must have made it all the more challenging. katrina: those are good points and I agree the authors did have quite a challenge to contend with since they began their challenge before Kingsolver began hers. So they were pioneers in that regard, and not having kids to help out must have made it all the more challenging.

]]> by: katrina http://beancounter.blogsome.com/2008/05/07/being-a-bookworm-plenty/#comment-533 Thu, 26 Jun 2008 19:48:32 +0100 http://beancounter.blogsome.com/2008/05/07/being-a-bookworm-plenty/#comment-533 I'm with you that I liked Kingsolvers book on local better but reading Plenty after Animal Vegetable Miracle, it sealed in the idea of local somehow. The fact that they lived in a tiny apartment, had snow and ice to contend with, one car I think, made me constantly applaud them and swept away the places where I could cop out at my house and say, I can't. If they could do it, so could I. I didn't have to be famous like BK or have a garden, two kids and a husband that constantly baked bread to eat local. Thanks for the review and the reminder of the locavore pledge. I’m with you that I liked Kingsolvers book on local better but reading Plenty after Animal Vegetable Miracle, it sealed in the idea of local somehow. The fact that they lived in a tiny apartment, had snow and ice to contend with, one car I think, made me constantly applaud them and swept away the places where I could cop out at my house and say, I can’t. If they could do it, so could I. I didn’t have to be famous like BK or have a garden, two kids and a husband that constantly baked bread to eat local. Thanks for the review and the reminder of the locavore pledge.

]]> by: Beany http://beancounter.blogsome.com/2008/05/07/being-a-bookworm-plenty/#comment-322 Thu, 08 May 2008 05:34:47 +0100 http://beancounter.blogsome.com/2008/05/07/being-a-bookworm-plenty/#comment-322 <a href="http://arduousblog.blogspot.com/2008/05/nine-months.html" rel="nofollow">As arduous says</a> after a while...not shopping becomes second nature...so I'm sure you're starting to feel that way if you haven't already. Books have changed my thinking in countless ways. I am reading Hard Times by Studs Terkel and I'm starting to really believe in that saying that goes something like this "if you read or hear something that really pisses you off, you're not getting the full story." As arduous says after a while…not shopping becomes second nature…so I’m sure you’re starting to feel that way if you haven’t already.

Books have changed my thinking in countless ways. I am reading Hard Times by Studs Terkel and I’m starting to really believe in that saying that goes something like this “if you read or hear something that really pisses you off, you’re not getting the full story.”

]]> by: sfordinarygirl http://beancounter.blogsome.com/2008/05/07/being-a-bookworm-plenty/#comment-319 Wed, 07 May 2008 15:52:39 +0100 http://beancounter.blogsome.com/2008/05/07/being-a-bookworm-plenty/#comment-319 You never fail to inspire me to do something positive and green! I've started baking my own bread, eating a lot of vegetables (I'm currently on my tri-color bell paper and mushroom with avocado phase)and decluttering. I've gone 4 months without buying new clothes. And I'm being more resourceful with using ingredients in my kitchen instead of buying something for one recipe. Mostly it's the books you read that help me deal with my own food issues and anxiety. Books are sort of calming and theraputic. Oddly I think they help me cope with my own internal defense mechanisms. Hooray! You never fail to inspire me to do something positive and green! I’ve started baking my own bread, eating a lot of vegetables (I’m currently on my tri-color bell paper and mushroom with avocado phase)and decluttering.

I’ve gone 4 months without buying new clothes. And I’m being more resourceful with using ingredients in my kitchen instead of buying something for one recipe.

Mostly it’s the books you read that help me deal with my own food issues and anxiety. Books are sort of calming and theraputic. Oddly I think they help me cope with my own internal defense mechanisms. Hooray!

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