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Made it maybe 30%
Dickens’ farces are so much less satisfying than his dramas. I see the brilliance of this but am just not into the constant jokes and lampoons.

Made it more than half way through. It's ok. Hold ran out and I wasn't as invested as I wanted to be. Moving on.

Listened to first few hours on audiobook. Loved the preface!

Paused at Wildfire.

Totally fabulous, totally fresh, and utterly needed work on critical interpretation of garden literature. Will use chapters in my Foodways course and other courses--may assign the whole book.

Read through chapter 3--it was appended to the second book in the series.

Loving it! Gulping it down.

About 1/3 through. Seems like every chapter begins with "these grad students did this great experiment and found that..." So, are we to surmise that the author scanned a bunch of otherwise unpublished dissertations to piece together this book? If so, I feel bad for the grad students.

A little put off by the first pages. Lots of one-sentence paragraphs, "forget everything you ever learned about parenting!", etc. Seems written for a very dumb audience.

Crucially important text on American women's contributions to nature writing, art, and design, focused from 1750s-mid 20th c. Excellent for research use: find references to all kinds of interesting women's and horticultural subjects here!

Don't get excited, friends. You know what a long-range planner I am! :)

Heard him on NPR and was immediately drawn to the possibilities of this diet. We'll see if I can pull it off.

I'm only through the Intro, and I want to shout "this is it!" to the world. Meaning I've been looking for a book that nicely contextualizes yoga as a 20- and 21st century phenomenon in America, with roots in India, and yet preserves the real joy I get from my practice. Singleton so far is smart and wise--reverent about the right things, and yet sharp as hell in terms of historical context and market forces.

This is a book group book, and I must admit as a 19th century historian, I was and continue to be leery of it. I'm finding it fun, though, "brain candy" as a fellow Goodreads friend described it. The writing isn't that great, and the history is kind of hackneyed, and yet it's fun--fluff to read at bedtime in summer. And maybe that's really all I need,

Loving this book. Reading it in little sips before bed. Much better than expected. Great writing, amazing gardeners, ignites my love of contemporary ethnic cultural studies once again.