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    <body><![CDATA[This book was one of my big disappointments so far this year, because I went in thinking I'd really like it and wound up so unimpressed that I think I actually hated it.  The premise of the book is an interesting one, so interesting that I called my mother on the way back from the bookstore to tell ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5955073">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I can forgive the obvious shortcommings of this book for three significant reasons: First, I believe wholeheartedly that by purchasing as much locally grown/made food as possible we can solve our fossil fuel dependency. Secondly, by the luck of the draw I can afford to purchase food from the weekly ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/16890960">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[You have to read this book.  Not just because it conveys an important message about the sustainability and environmental impact of our foodways.  Not just because its &quot;Year in Provence&quot;-style charm makes Appalachia sound as alluring as the French or Italian countryside (no euros required)....<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4664568">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Well...normally I am a Kingsolver fan. I just like the way she writes--simple and straight forward. Her stories, both long an short are well done. But this book just really pissed me off. It's a non-fiction account of her back to the land movement with her family. The book starts off well and good. ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/11771144">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Good Reads is becoming the place I write what I thought what a book was going to be about and then either come back disappointed or pleasantly surprised.<br/><br/>In this case, it's mild disappointment. When I heard about this book and read the review, I thought it would be more like a diary. A mu...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2501341">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[My favorite cameo of all times from <em>The Simpsons</em> features Ed Begley Jr with a non-polluting car that runs on &quot;[his] own sense of self-satisfaction.&quot; As I read this book, I couldn't help remembering that scene. Is Barbara Kingsolver a talented writer? Undoubtedly. Her descriptions of food a...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/22095825">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I was so excited to finally get my hands on this fantastic story about one family's year long experiment in growing &amp; raising most of their own food.  I love reading about people who think differently, act differently and live differently than the norm.  <br/><br/>I think the grow your own philoso...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/17942836">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I like Barbara Kingsolver's fiction, and have been hearing about this book and others about local food movements springing up eveywhere. Essentially her family moves into their farmhouse that had up til then just been a vacation farm, to live a year eating only local food--whether it came from their...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2460605">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[It took me awhile to get through this one but it was worth it. Barbara Kingsolver is respected novelist and essayist, but to my knowledge this is her first full-length nonfiction book. She describes her family's first year of moving to a farm in Virginia and trying to grow as much of their own food ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1360976">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I really enjoyed this book, and this is coming from someone who usually avoids non fiction. It helps that I'm already a fan of the author's - her writing style is so engaging, filled with a mixture of creative flourishes, insightful observations and a down-to-earth sense of humor.<br/><br/>This bo...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/25602522">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[Author Barbara Kingsolver and her family abandoned the industrial-food pipeline to live a rural life&#8212;vowing that, for one year, they'd only buy food raised in their own neighborhood, grow it themselves, or learn to live without it. Part memoir, part journalistic investigation, <em>Animal, Vegetable, Miracle</em> is an enthralling narrative that will open your eyes in a hundred new ways to an old truth: You are what you eat.]]>
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