Adventures With Alex

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  • BR299) “Master Gardener Manual” Book Review

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    Master Gardener Manual by PennState Extension. 4/5 rating. 743 pages. Book #15 of 2023. Read May 8, 2023. This was the accompanying textbook for my Master Gardener’s class in Vermont. The amount of information in this book is absolutely overwhelming. It is a true guidebook with information about a wide-array of topics about gardening: from…

  • BR262) “On Brassard’s Farm” Book Review

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    On Brassard’s Farm by Daniel Hecht. 3/5 rating. 421 pages. Book #29 of 2022. Read July 5, 2022. This is a novel about a teacher who moves to the woods in Vermont as a respite after large portions of her life have fallen apart. Ann was a teacher in Boston but had an issue in…

  • BR252) “Total Loss Farm” Book Review

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    Total Loss Farm: A Year in the Life of Raymond Mungo by Raymond Mungo. 3/5 rating. 181 pages. Book #19 of 2022. Read April 3, 2022. This was an eclectic book to say the least. It’s mostly string-of-consciousness writing about a year in Vermont and traveling and some other random things. Raymond was a hippie…

  • BR241) “Half Wild” Book Review

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    Half Wild: Stories by Robin MacArthur. 3/5 rating. 207 pages. Book #8 of 2022. Read January 29, 2022. This is a collection of short stories about different people in Vermont. I picked this up because I’m trying to read more local authors. It also appealed to me with its ideas about the wild and its…

  • BR237) “The Town that Food Saved” Book Review

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    The Town that Food Saved: How One Community Found Vitality in Local Food by Ben Hewitt. 3/5 rating. 223 pages. Book #4 of 2022. Read January 11, 2022. This book is all about Hardwick, VT’s drive toward a new type of local food. While it was not the most interesting book overall, it made me…

  • BR161) “Falter” Book Review

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    Falter: Has the Human Game Begun to Play Itself Out? by Bill McKibben. 3/5 rating. 256 pages. Book #86 of 2020. Read December 18, 2020. This being by Bill McKibben, I was expecting a book about climate change and its life-ending potential. That was only part of the wide array of quite philosophical discussions Bill…

  • 27) Burlington, VT (June 7 – 9)

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    I got into Burlington, Vermont on Friday evening (June 7th) and was astounded by the punch that such a tiny city could pack. Even with less than a population of 45,000 people (without the college), the downtown was a-buzz with activity: people, music, restaurants. After about 20 minutes of searching, I finally found a parking…