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Posted: Monday, November 24, 2008 11:18 am
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Read to Succeed’s 2009 One Book is more than a good read, it might just change your eating habits and your life, an RTS volunteer said.
“This is one of those wonderful books that has the potential to change our lives and the life of our county for the better,” said Rutherford County One Book Chairperson Carlene Hurst.
The Book that just might change the way you look at food is “Animal, Vegetable, Miracle,” which chronicles a calendar year during which author Barbara Kingsolver and her family move to an Appalachian farm and attempt to become “locavores” – people who eat only locally grown food.
“Nothing is of more basic importance to all of us than the food we put into our bodies every day and its impact on our health, the environment and the well being of our families,” Hurst said.
The book encompasses a great number of topics that serve as food for thought – from the environmental and energy costs of transporting food around the world to the dangers of genetically modified foods and the nutritional woes of processed foods. Facts presented by Kingsolver are eye opening.
Beyond the facts and the impassioned plea to eat locally, Kingsolver’s work is also a neighborly read filled with a generous helping of family remembrances, farm wisdom and food humor (see Turkey sex).
Like the experiment to eat locally, “Animal, Vegetable, Miracle” is a family project with Kingsolver writing the lyrical and compelling narrative that holds the book together while her husband Steven Hopp adds useful sidebars on ecology and global agribusiness and her daughter Camille provides recipes and the insights of a teenager forgoing the fast food culture.
One Book of Rutherford County is a non-profit, volunteer organization that works in partnership with Read To Succeed, Linebaugh Library and Middle Tennessee State University to challenge the citizens of Rutherford County to come together and read a book.
“The mission of One Book is to bring the people of our county together over the pages of a really good book,” Hurst said.
One Book is also meant to reading among adults, to demonstrate to our children by example the importance of reading, and to highlight an issue of importance by means of a book’s theme or subject matter.
In addition to reading 2009’s One Book, you can also buy it locally.
Come by Barnes & Noble Booksellers Dec. 11-12 for a Holiday Book Fair, with proceeds benefiting Read to Succeed.
Bookfair events include a special Read To Succeed Storytime at 6 p.m. and games from 6-8 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 11, and Read To Succeed Night from 6-8 p.m. Friday Dec. 12.
See the One Book blog at onebookcommunityread.blogspot.com or to learn more about Read to Succeed, visit www.readtosucceed.org.
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