Ack! I have been a very bad book blogger. I have not been blogging and have not been reading as much as I want to. It's summer—this is when everyone is supposed to have time for "summer reading," but somehow it has not been working out that way.
I'm still working on "Founding Brothers" (it's a good book but it's a little like doing assigned reading for your history class), and I just finished "The Botany of Desire," by Michael Pollan. I thought it would be a good summer read, since it's about plants. I have learned a lot about apples, tulips, marijuana and potatoes, and how they have been altered by human desires for sweetness, beauty, intoxication and control. Or, as Pollan intriguingly suggests, maybe the plants are manipulating US to their own evolutionary advantage.
Anyway, it's time to get into summer reading gear—July is almost half over and I haven't started any of the books I'm planning to read for the Armchair Traveler Reading Challenge, and, there are only EIGHT more days until Harry Potter comes out!
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