Bright-Sided

Bright-Sided

Rating:  Bright-Sided: How the Relentless Promotion of Positive Thinking Has Undermined America, by Barbara Ehrenreich.  Metropolitan Books (2009), 235 pages. Ehrenreich is making all kinds of really excellent points in this book. Yes, being told you must...
The Omnivore’s Dilemma

The Omnivore’s Dilemma

Rating:  The Omnivore’s Dilemma, by Michael Pollan.  Penguin Press (2006), 450 pages. I was prepared to wade through a fair amount of dry technical talk on vegetable genetics and the like, in order to get to the good stuff in this book.  I’m...