Category Archives: Reviews

2012 Reads in Review

Posted on 28/12/2012 by fishinthewater

Hello, blog. I’m still not sure I’m going to start blogging again. I go back and forth. But, because I’ve been keeping the list, I’m going to post it. I read a lot more this year than I have read … Continue reading →

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Rory Gilmore’s Book List

Posted on 02/08/2012 by fishinthewater

I recently came across via a combination of facebook and other blogs, a list of all the books mentioned by Rory Gilmore in the show Gilmore Girls. Now, I will be honest. I started watching Gilmore Girls from the very … Continue reading →

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The Hunger Games, Part 2

Posted on 04/07/2012 by fishinthewater

*major spoiler alert do not read if you don’t want to know the ending!* I had this plan. I was going to finish the Hunger Games, all three books, and then I was going to write this piece about how … Continue reading →

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The Dirty Life

Posted on 29/06/2012 by fishinthewater

I’ve been reading The Dirty Life by Kristin Kimball, who came here to speak last fall. It’s been on my pile of things to read for a while, but it’s one I just never seemed to pick up. Finally I … Continue reading →

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The Hunger Games

Posted on 14/06/2012 by fishinthewater

So I’ve been binge reading, which is kind of my reward to myself for quitting my job. It’s one of the things I used to spend every spare moment doing, and then somehow the spare moments turned into stolen moments … Continue reading →

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A Time to Plant

Posted on 08/07/2011 by fishinthewater

It’s hard to be objective about a book when you flinch every time he mentions Jesus. I therefore have to preface my review of “A Time to Plant” by Kyle Kramer with a personal statement: I was raised semi-Catholic (never … Continue reading →

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The Food Revolution

Posted on 05/07/2011 by fishinthewater

People have been encouraging me for a while now to watch Jamie Oliver’s Food Revolution. I’ll say this up front, and I hope I don’t sound like I’m preaching- I don’t watch tv. Or I should specify. I don’t typically … Continue reading →

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You’ve Got Fat in Your Head

Posted on 26/04/2011 by fishinthewater

Well, yesterday I watched the movie Fat Head. Haven’t heard of it? Neither had I. But KMO interviewed him last week, and before hand told me to check it out. So I did (it’s available on Hulu, by the way). … Continue reading →

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Moving A Little Further Back…

Posted on 25/04/2011 by fishinthewater

There were a couple books that didn’t get put on the last list. As they are mostly random, but all awesome, I thought I’d just do a quick auxiliary list before the main event. Gaviotas- An awesome book about people … Continue reading →

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So, We Had A Book Festival…

Posted on 31/03/2011 by fishinthewater

Now I need to tell you about all the books, right? Well, I’m kind of doing that a little at a time. You’ve already heard about Lierre Keith and Bonny Wolf, I’ll talk about Lucie Snodgrass and Paul Greenberg next … Continue reading →

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