📚💬 “[The USDA’s] first loyalty has always been to the ag/food industry and to destroying any knowledge that would jeopardize the industry’s profits.” Mark Bittman, Animal, Vegetable, Junk: A History of Food, from Sustainable to Suicidal
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🍿 Watched A Merry Little Ex-Mas. Excellent cast and Alicia Silverstone made me cry.
Finished reading: Golemcrafters by Emi Watanabe Cohen 📚
💬📚 “Hyperlexia is an early sign of golemcraft aptitude. Golems are made of words, just as Jews are made of books.” Emi Watanabe Cohen, Golemcrafters
This is a kid’s novel about two half-Japanese, half-Jewish middle schoolers who learn to make golems from their estranged grandfather.
🍿 Watched A Royal Montana Christmas.
I always love a horse movie and Warren Christie makes a great cowboy. Not much chemistry between the leads here, though. And I wish the horses had gotten more screentime.
Finished reading: Heated Rivalry by Rachel Reid 📚
Finished reading: Game Changer by Rachel Reid 📚
Finished reading: Run Posy Run by Cate C. Wells 📚
It’s a little embarrassing that it took me watching Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein to understand that Mary Shelley is both Victor AND the creature, not just Victor. (It’s not news that I make too much of her alignment with either of them.) 🍿
🍿 Victor Frankenstein has postpartum depression.