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Whether we are or not

We are the Weather by Jonathan Safran Foer

April 18, 2021 by Nannerbears Leave a Comment

I went into this book having no knowledge of its topic, only a fondness for the author’s other work. It turns out, this was the author’s plan. It’s a delightfully written account of the dying earth and how we, the human race, are the leading cause of its death.  It’s a good mix of fact-based research and anecdotal evidence; it’s difficult to talk about this book without revealing its seedy underbelly. So in the interest of full disclosure: SPOILER ALERT, SPOILER ALERT: this book is […]

Filed Under: Health, Non-Fiction Tagged With: climate change, Jonathan Safran Foer, meat, Veganism

Nannerbears's CBR13 Review No:7 · Genres: Health, Non-Fiction · Tags: climate change, Jonathan Safran Foer, meat, Veganism ·
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Eating Animals

If nothing is sacred, there is nothing to save.

Eating Animals by Jonathan Safran Foer

August 12, 2020 by LadyStardust 1 Comment

I don’t know that I can offer a traditional (or unbiased) review of this book, because it has become deeply personal for me, but I’ll try. I officially stopped “eating animals” because of Eating Animals. This is the only book I frequently re-read, because it means so much to me, and is a bolstering reminder of why I choose to live the way I do. It’s been a transformative and eye-opening book for me, and I highly recommend it for anyone who’s ever felt uneasy […]

Filed Under: Cooking/Food, Non-Fiction Tagged With: Jonathan Safran Foer, meat, Morality, Philosophy, vegan, vegetarian

LadyStardust's CBR12 Review No:1 · Genres: Cooking/Food, Non-Fiction · Tags: Jonathan Safran Foer, meat, Morality, Philosophy, vegan, vegetarian ·
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Her life was no more than a ghostly pageant of exhausted endurance

April 9, 2017 by borisanne Leave a Comment

In spite of this having been on a number of “best of 2016” lists, I walked into this book completely blind, and was fully shocked, disturbed, and yet driven by it. It’s a really tough read, not just psychologically, but because it’s brutally graphic in a way that doesn’t exactly require a warning, but is unusual for a Western reader used to a vaseline’d lens covering sex and violence. I really loved this, and it continues to haunt me a little bit. I can’t imagine […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Fiction, Horror Tagged With: cbr9, Death, divorce, Fiction, flowers, Han Kang, hospital, kang, meat, mental illness, selfishness, tree, vegetarianism

borisanne's CBR9 Review No:6 · Genres: Fantasy, Fiction, Horror · Tags: cbr9, Death, divorce, Fiction, flowers, Han Kang, hospital, kang, meat, mental illness, selfishness, tree, vegetarianism ·
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