This was my latest read. I enjoyed it very much. The theme seems to be how the grocery business has brutalized the supply chain - from fishermen to truckers. Even when chains try to do business in ethical fashion, like Trader Joes back in the day, they get subsumed....

Read this book. Nuff said.

Wave, by Sonali Deraniyagala. This is a boo written by an author whose Husban, two sons and her parents were all swept away in the Tsunami in Sri Lanka in 2004. I enjoyed this book, although the first half was difficult to read because the story was so distressing....

John Green I wanted to enjoy this book, but sadly, it wasn't compelling to me. There was a general history of how TB has been endemic during history. It is a slow moving killer. Now it is generally curable, although it is building drug resistance. Since it seems to be...