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Traveling to visit farmers for the first time in the remote mountains of Nepal with her photographer and manicured nails. I'm sure it looked great on the website

Can't help but feel a bit of fetishization and Eat Pray Love sentiments in this.

There's a chapter where she is having matcha with a Buddhist monk and is asking him for advice... really outta touch.

The way the author refers to farmers she works with as "my farmer" rubs me the wrong way. I work with farmers, and would never speak of them like that, as if they are your employees rather than business partners.

Liking this. Switching between audio and physical copy

Was enjoying this but then she just humble bragging that she's the British military's tea plug...

Took me ~50 pages to get into this but I'm liking it now. Excited to see where it goes.

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Things are picking up now that we're all in Willow Springs.

This book has been hard to get through, unfortunately. The narrator is always changing (we added a new one in the last section). It's not very fun...it feels academic. I do still prefer the love story narrative between Ophelia and George.

So George sucks. The Mama Day sections have a lot of characters and I feel like I can't remember them all. Cocoa and George's sections I prefer, except now George is acting like he never met a woman before. And there's another narrator now. I really wish this had chapters, that would help a lot of the reading process. And also names of who the narrator is in each section since we're changing it up so often.

loving so far

First story, Rikki-Tikki-Tavi was meh.

More invested in Ophelia and the love story than the Mama Day parts.

Starting w book club with a couple friends! And loving this so far!

I've been reading these poems here and there before bed, but I just sat and read almost all of part 2, and I should've been reading it like this the whole time.

This book may have inspired me to plan a quinceañera for me and my partner's 15-year anniversary.