Reading and Studying

Since I am having trouble uploading pictures, I thought I would share what books I've read so far this year. This blog is usually only about pictures of cute little boys which will be resumed sometime in the future. Anyway, here are the books I read in January:
My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Picoult (fiction, couldn't put it down)
Serve God Save the Planet by Dr. Matthew Sleeth (nonfiction, writing kind of disconnected, but great things to think about, makes me want to change parts of my lifestyle)
Genetically Engineered Food by Ronnie Cummins & Ben Lilliston

I haven't quite finished the genetically engineered food one because my long time hold at the library came up....Michael Pollan's In Defense of Food. woo hoo! I just got it yesterday and the first line is: Eat Food. Not too much. Mostly Plants. Another line: "...Yet as a general rule it's a whole lot easier to slap a health claim on a box of sugary cereal than on a raw potato or a carrot, with the perverse result that the most healthful foods in the supermarket sit there quietly in the produce section, silent as stroke victims, while a few aisles over in Cereal the Cocoa Puffs and Lucky Charms are screaming their newfound "whole-grain goodness" to the rafters. Watch out for those health claims."
He talks about how - if a food has to make a health claim, then it is NOT healthy!

I am also reading Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte. I'm about 100 pages in and it is 500 pages long so I hope to finish it this month but we'll see. I also started Just Generosity by Ronald Sider but got side-tracked. AND I am doing a Beth Moore bible study on Thursday mornings - Breaking Free. That is a lot of work. I am enjoying reading more and blogging less (was that possible? umm, don't comment) though Darrell is still reading about three times as much as I am. He is working on the top 100 adventure books of all time. He's been working on this list for a year now and has read about 25 from the list along with other books not on the list. He is a read-er.