Good vs. Evil

On my recent trip to the "Venice of the America", highlights included 3 straight days on the beach, a VW beetle, an incredibly majestic and patterned sunburn, and finishing Michael Pollan's In Defense of Food. The book has wonderfully simple and true subtitle/mantra: Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants. The book explores how the American diet got to be so bad and how pretty much every other diet on the planet (including cultures who subsist primarily on cow milk and blood) does a better job nourishing you than the Western Diet. Pollan is a terrific writer and does a great job giving lots of detail without becoming tedious. If you are, however, looking to skip over the "science-y" stuff you can just read the last few chapters which are more prescriptive and tell you ways to Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants.

The flight home was not nearly so high-brow. A trip to the airport bookstore yielded "Certain Girls" by Jennifer Weiner. I may not have been looking, but I do not recall seeing this gem in Barnes & Noble. I think direct-to-airport must be the book version of direct-to video for movies. I, of course, had to buy the hard cover so am now willing myself to finish this $25 collection of whiny drivel.