It's Monday, What Are You Reading?

Last week I finished two books: The Third Plate: Field Notes on the Future of Food, by Dan Barber, and the novel An Arsonists Guide to Writers' Homes in New England, by Brock Clarke. I started Margaret Atwood's recent novel, The Heart Goes Last, and another book about food, The Mad Fest: An Ecstatic Tour Through America's Food, by Matthew Gavin Frank. Anyone else like to read books about food? Looking back, I think my interest in this genre began with Barbara Kingsolver's book Animal, Vegetable, Miracle, in which she writes about how she and her family attempted to eat only local and homegrown food for a year. At some point I'll make a list of all the food books I've read and post it on here. The Kingsolver book is my favorite of them, though I also loved Julie Childs' memoir, My Life in France. 

I also started a new audiobook this week, Atonement, by Ian McEwan. The writing and descriptions in this book are quite lovely, though I'm having more trouble following along with the audiobook this time. I suspect this comes from the fact that the book is description heavy, without a lot of action. Still, I appreciate the quality of the writing and the character development, so I'm going to stick with it. I've found that I notice description and beauty of language a lot more when I listen to books rather than read them on the page. Often I tend to skim through long passages of description when I read on the page.

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