Crafty Peaches

June 10, 2010

eating animals (via laborious living)

Filed under: Uncategorized — peaches @ 9:42 am

We just got this book in the library where I work. It’s pretty darned good and makes the point without browbeating you with it.

eating animals Recently I wrote about the politicalization of food. When I did so, I had just begun reading Jonathan Safran Foer's new book Eating Animals. I have now finished the book, and to say it's impact is life changing, is to short change the gravity of this work. The book is a departure for Foer. His first two novels, Everything is Illuminated and Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close were both heartbreaking, beautifully written works of fiction. This l … Read More

via laborious living

Advertisement

3 Comments »

  1. you should absolutely read Jonathan Safran Foer’s fiction as well. He’s one of my favourites.

    Comment by Becca — June 10, 2010 @ 10:20 am

  2. I will look into that; maybe my library has them. Thanks! :)

    Comment by peaches — June 10, 2010 @ 3:56 pm


RSS feed for comments on this post. TrackBack URI

Leave a Reply

Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in:

WordPress.com Logo

You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. Log Out / Change )

Twitter picture

You are commenting using your Twitter account. Log Out / Change )

Facebook photo

You are commenting using your Facebook account. Log Out / Change )

Connecting to %s

Theme: Silver is the New Black. Blog at WordPress.com.

Follow

Get every new post delivered to your Inbox.