I know I haven't posted in a while, but that probably has something to do with the fact that I hadn't read a book since the end of the 52 books in 52 weeks series. Yes, I said "hadn't." I finished a book, two books actually. I started reading one and got sidetracked by the other -- and finished them both within a day of each other. Are they significant choices? Maybe. The first I finished was Nora Robert's The Hollow , the follow up to book 21 of 52 . I picked it up while food shopping at the Jersey shore. I'd brought half a dozen books with me, hoping to jarr my reading mind back open while spending six days away from home. But when I saw that book in the supermarket isle, I couldn't say no. It was an easy (and sometimes silly) way to get back into things. The second is Michael Pollan's In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto . My food education is progressing since reading The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals , boo