book club of one

finished Lila, started and finished my first graham greene book, The Human Factor, and now have started 1984.

i highly recommend the graham greene book, although i hear it's not one of his best. i wouldn't know, since i have nothing to compare it to. i didn't realize until i'd finished it that he is considered a "catholic writer", like evelyn waugh. his biography claims that, but then goes on to say that, by the way, after he left his wife for another woman in the late 40's he didn't go to Mass or Confession. so, not really sure how that makes him a "catholic writer".

i'm also reading an interesting cookbook called The Healthy Hedonist. i was a bit concerned by the title, but she says people want to feel good after they eat. i agree. she then says that with traditional, heavy meals people end up feeling bloated and guilty. but with lighter, healthier food they feel better. she also really pushes organic, hormone-free, and local food, saying it really DOES taste better. the subtitle is something about "flexitarians", saying many people today eat only small quantities of meat, or only certain meats, but don't quite qualify as vegetarians. plus they don't have the rigid mindset that many people with (to use auntie trish's term) "food rules" are married to.

i now consider myself an official flexitarian.