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Yambunz wants to read Diet for a Small Planet by Frances Moore Lappé
Yambunz started reading Animal, Vegetable, Miracle by Barbara Kingsolver
Yambunz rated No Meat Required: 4 stars
Yambunz finished reading No Meat Required by Alicia Kennedy
Yambunz quoted No Meat Required by Alicia Kennedy
...Staying apolitical - by which I mean, not working for policy change that would make life better for everyone and not just those who shed their earthly material belongings - made communes look like a curiosity, a relic.
— No Meat Required by Alicia Kennedy (Page 77)
Yambunz quoted No Meat Required by Alicia Kennedy
I would prefer to buy My pens from my local pharmacy than order them on Amazon, because one of these contributes to my neighbourhood and the other union-busts and underpass it's own employees, who've worked hard enough over the years to help founder Jeff Bozos fly to space for some reason. The same principle stands when it comes to food: why would I support massive agricultural and biotech conglomerates who underpay workers and also don't pay the real environmental cost of their pesticide-heavy, monocrop practices instead of supporting my local community?
— No Meat Required by Alicia Kennedy (Page 34)
Yambunz finished reading The Third Policeman by Flann O'Brien

The Third Policeman by Flann O'Brien
The Third Policeman is a novel by Irish writer Brian O'Nolan, writing under the pseudonym Flann O'Brien. It was written …
Yambunz started reading The Third Policeman by Flann O'Brien

The Third Policeman by Flann O'Brien
The Third Policeman is a novel by Irish writer Brian O'Nolan, writing under the pseudonym Flann O'Brien. It was written …
Yambunz started reading No Meat Required by Alicia Kennedy
Yambunz quoted The Third Policeman by Flann O'Brien
Down into the earth where dead men go I would go soon and maybe come out of it again in some healthy way, free and innocent of all human perplexity. I would be the chill of an April wind, an essential part of some indominatable river or be personally concerned in the ageless perfection of rank mountain bearing down on the mind by occupying forever a position in the blue distance. Or perhaps a smaller thing like movement in the grass on an unbearable breathless yellow day, some hidden creature going about it's business - I might well be responsible for that or some part of it. Or even those unaccountable distinctions that make an evening recognisable from its own morning, the smells and sounds and sights of the perfected and matured essences of the day, these might not be innocent of my meddling and my abiding presence.
— The Third Policeman by Flann O'Brien (Page 164)
Yambunz quoted The Third Policeman by Flann O'Brien
Whichever day it was, it was a gentle day - mild, Magical and innocent with great sailings of white cloud serene and impregnable in the high sky, moving along like kingly swans on quiet water. The sun was in the neighbourhood also, distributing his enchantment unobtrusively, colouring the sides of things that were unalive and livening the hearts of living things.
— The Third Policeman by Flann O'Brien (Page 156)
Yambunz finished reading The Golden Mole by Katherine Rundell

The Golden Mole by Katherine Rundell
The world is more astonishing, more miraculous and more wonderful than our wildest imaginings. In this passionately persuasive and sharply …
Yambunz quoted The Golden Mole by Katherine Rundell
We live in a world of such marvels. We should wake up in the morning and as we put on our trousers we should remember the seahorse and we should scream with awe and we should not stop screaming until we fall asleep, and the same the next day, and the next. Each single seahorse contains enough wonder to knock the whole of humanity off its feet, if we would but pay attention.
— The Golden Mole by Katherine Rundell (Page 124)
Yambunz finished reading The Grass is Singing by Doris Lessing

The Grass is Singing by Doris Lessing
Published in 1950, The Grass Is Singing is the first novel by the British author Doris Lessing. It takes place …