This picture is the one that I said looks like my superhero character Enviro Avenger. The photographer noticed that people were clicking over from my site to hers and emailed and offered to let me put it up here! Cool, eh?

You may have noticed that not only have I not been blogging as much as normal while finishing my edits, but I haven’t updated much on Need To Read either. I’ve discovered that I can’t really read fiction while editing. Instead of getting into the story, I find myself thinking, “the author just used that word two paragraphs ago”. Haha! Or “Another startling green-eyed character? I must update the Red Hair list!” This is not conducive to entertainment reading.

But you know me…I could not go without books entirely. I’ve been reading nonfiction. And honestly, I can’t even really remember what. Except this book. Let me just tell you that lately I’ve been feeling kind of smug in my environmental cloak, but then I read this. I seriously dare you to check out his website or read David Suzuiki’s Green Guide. You will not feel so great about what’s going on, but you will feel very inspired to do better. And it’s possible that you might just become a vegetarian too. As you know, we are vegetarians, but I don’t really preach about it (I want to, but that’s so boring!) because it is a spiritual decision for us. However, I might start talking about it more on an environmental platform because seriously…meat production is screwing up this planet big time. Anyway…

I am now back to reading fiction, and I spent all day yesterday reading Nevil Shute’s The Far Country, possibly one of his best books. Man is he good! And I’m pleased to see that he has been a bigger influence on my writing than I realized. That’s very good news. Not that I’m saying I’m the next Nevil Shute or anything, far from it, but I can definitely see what I’ve taken from his style and incorporated into my own and that makes me very happy. I can’t link to it because it’s OP and hard to find, but your library should have it. Or you could try The Paper Tiger.