Meg

Great book on how to include superfoods into your diet. Lots of the supplements and foods recommended are quite pricey, you have been warned, but if you're looking to add some extra kick to your whole foods plant based diet this is a great resource! (definitely not a stand-alone diet book though!)
Her recipes are delicious (find her Steven and Chris YouTube videos and you have the gist of the book)
My only complaint is I wish like crazy that it had an index!!!

A friend brought the most AMAZING Lemon Squares EVER to a special gathering last year, seriously mind-blowingly-universe-alteringly good squares - and I don't even usually like Lemon pies and things!! They were perfect in taste and consistency, creamy and lemony and not too heavy or too sweet... Everyone begged her to tell where she got the recipe and she told us it was this back in the day cookbook.

I am so excited to explore the rest of these recipes. However the lemon squares will forever be the stars.

The only thing better than the book was getting to spend a day with Corwin himself (he runs a fantastic “Living the Dream” seminar).
One of the hardest things for creatives -starting or continuing to work towards making a viable living from their work- is to build a plan and actually use it to take action. This is a refreshing take providing exceptionally useful and practical ideas as well as actionable steps for making it happen. Well worth all the dog-ears, highlighter attacks, margin scribbles, and post-it's you can muster.

A very unbiased facts-based account of Harper's actions during his first 4 years as Prime Minister of Canada. These actions can be interpreted by the reader as being positive or negative at their leisure. Which is the way books like this should be written.

Popular opinion said that there was “no way” he could get a majority government in 2011... Now they say there's no way Canadians can let him keep his power in 2015... He is smart and calculating, no action is too far, he is not to be underestimated again. I fear the worst may be yet to come, and I weep for my dear country.

One thing is for sure, I will be Voting - this an every year I am able. I only hope every Canadian eligible will make every attempt to vote also and make their voices heard as loud as ever.

Very cool to hear the story of such an iconic movie. A little sad at times, however an unassuming masterpiece all the same. It's too bad we couldn't have heard a more in-depth “inside the mind of the master” account. Sill, very thorough and fun story.
Definitely want to watch the movie again now, and the sequels, and the remake, and the inspiration movies, and those it spawned.... What a marathon!

Ignore the preachy buy vega stuff and the sketchy stats, its his first book and it reads like it but the principles are great for overall health.
I like the workout specific section, that really is his area of expertise and is fantastic help when you start incorporating exercise into your whole foods lifestyle.
As a practical intro to whole foods diet the principles are basically the same I read everywhere. The meal plans are ridiculously lengthy and take lots of prep, which is rewarding because they really are fantastic but I wouldnt recommend this for a busy lifestyle starting out on a whole foods diet.
I use this book as a recipe book and workout meal planning tool more than anything. His recipe only book has some amazing dishes in it as well.

This book had me picturing a twisted mashup of Constantine, Sin City, and a really fun, dark, and surreal movie called Cemetary Man aka Dellamorte Dellamore (Starring Rupert Everett)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0109592/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1

Still, demons and magic all wrapped up in a Noir version of L.A. ... yea it was a fun ride.

Modern young adult (ish) novels seem to mostly be written like B Horror movies. It seems all about the threat and worry of something happening while few things actually do happen. They read as though the authors suffer from a sort of “good enough” syndrome. It's a disappointing trend.

The book wasn't terrible. It was different and weird as you'd expect from the subject matter, but it wasn't great. I read it out of curiosity and it was pretty much what I expected it would be, actually a little better but still.

There should be a sort-of-read listing (along with a did not finish)

Apparently the audiobook I found was heavily abridged and I've heard terrible things about the unabridged version so I'll have to read it for real sometime later. Perhaps it will alter my perspective of the book.

The only thing I don't quite understand, is the way the inital trigger that threw everything to hell. They “captured” these goat people who obviously hated americans and were likely sympathetic to the enemy. The choices were framed as either kill them and be murderers or let them got and risk the enemy being alerted to their position sooner rather than later. Although inconvenient due to the goats that would undoubtedly be visible on their suicide mountain top, why couldnt they just have tied them up, immobilized and semi neutralized the threat to buy themselves some time to get to a better position. Ok it's no guarantee things wouldn't have gone to hell anyway but in an impossible situation wouldn't that have given them a better chance?
Obviously hindsight is different than being in such a situation but still. I find it strange that these highly trained and highly educated individuals would not have considered other options, even in the incredibly short amount of time they would have to make those decisions... In my mind its clear when you're stuck between two unacceptable options that there is always another way, even if it only staves off all hell breaking loose for a short time...
Still, an incredible story.

Nice light enjoyable stories. If you prefer weighty stories with many layers and great depth in plot and character this may not be for you. As fun as that can be this book is a unique style that is beautifully worded to be enjoyed without draining your brain. Kind of like a calming meditation. Great for before bed!! I don't normally read books like this but I always enjoy good writing. It's nice to read stories that hold such strength of character, morality and common sense.

For fun, this is my favorite passage: “The problem, of course, was that people did not seem to understand the difference between right and wrong. They needed to be reminded about this, because if you left it to them to work out for themselves, they would never bother. They would just find out what was best for them, and then they would call that the right thing. Thats how most people thought.” (just change thought to think and you're describing the current state of the world, in my opinion)

I've been listening to a lot of books that are very popular but so not the kind of book I would usually ever pick up to actually read. (Unless it was free or left somewhere and I had time, along with no internet and no legs.) That being said, I actually enjoyed this and am looking forward to the film. I enjoy taking books/stories/entertainment for what it is and I try not to hear too many things about that kind of stuff before I experience it, yep that leaves me disappointed quite a bit (like the awful Divergent Trilogy debacle) but I also am pretty happily surprised a lot of the time too. This book, I barely grazed the synopsis before diving in. I took someone whose star ratings I look up to and that tend to be in a similar line as mine and jumped. I have little to say about the story except that it was a story, a glimpse in time at the complicated lives of a group of people. It made me think about the craziest times in my life, especially when family gets together, and think how our own weirdness and hilarity would sound if someone were narrating it. It also made me appreciate the amazing and fortunate live i've had and enjoy the fact that my problems are not these problems (though at times my own can be much worse.) still. it was a good read. if this isnt the kind of book you “read” try listening to it because it really is a funny entertaining story. I think it was written after a Judd Apatow/the like marathon though because there is no way this book would ever NOT be made into a movie.

I do apologize to those who actually read my reviews. I write them for myself rather than others, it's a nice way to finish the story and for my to remember why I read these books. I think remembering how they made me feel is more important than the events that happened, in case I ever want to read/experience them again.

I loved this story, though i couldnt stop thinking of starship troopers through the entire thing. The book progresses very quickly, almost a little too much so for my liking, id have liked to have seen a lot more of the psycological battles that emerged rather than just skimming the surface. overall though i really enjoyed it and look forward to more of the great mr. scalzi's works.

Every writer has their own vernacular, which at times can be preachy or hard to read (the health scare tactics bother my slightly, but I get why they're there) but don't you dare let it detract from the central purpose of the book: you will not be completely healthy unless you eat lots and lots and lots of plants!
This is really just an entire book dedicated to driving home (painfully at times) a very common sense point.
If there is just one book to get started on a whole foods plant based diet this is a fantastic place to start! It's ridiculously simple in principle which makes the extremely difficult - for most people - change much less intimidating. (bonus that his recipes -especially the helpful healthy salad dressings- are super ridiculously tasty.)
If you're seriously looking to fully completely 120% no comprimises get healthy, like really truly life-changingly healthy and happy. Make sure you have a copy of this book in your whole foods library.

If you are looking for a really good story, and by story i mean a tale like a “grown up and flown away come into its own grown old and left the one last greatest and most profound moral of all” fable... read any of Neil Gaimans' novels or short stories or writings of any kind.

I absolutely loved this book, much as i love everything Neil writes. He is a born storyteller and it certainly shows. I have read many reviews saying that although this was a terrific book, American Gods will always be better. I haven't read that one yet, i have no clue what drove me to read this one first as the other one technically is the first book, but i know it will be amazing.

I started this book ages ago and read a couple chapters and let it sit until life had calmed down, i sat down the other day and read it all in one day. I shouldn't do that because i inevitably will miss many parts. I didnt mind this time because i will 100% absatively be reading this many more times in the future.

I liked the book and I believe the writing was true to the original author and to the characters. My only problem is it doesnt feel finished, granted in order to continue the series there must be some questions left over but the thing the original series did very well was leave each book feeling complete on it's own. I didn't get that sense from this one.
Perhaps I need to read this one again. Overall it was an enjoyable book with some further fantastic insight into the characters. However, it really is a shame that steig passed before he was able to complete his masterpiece.