Comments on: What I Watched, Read, and Listened To: Food Edition

By: Michelle

Michelle — Sun, 16 Feb 2014 16:36:48 +0000

I’m eating cleaner because it’s more sustainable and I’m tired of being 30 pounds overweight 🙂

By: Fig @ Figuring Money Out

Fig @ Figuring Money Out — Thu, 13 Feb 2014 20:43:05 +0000

Nice choices! I’ve seen all those documentaries and loved them all. Forks Over Knives is also great.

How to Instantly Connect with Anyone sounds interesting, I think I might get that one for myself!

By: Daisy

Daisy — Thu, 13 Feb 2014 14:39:15 +0000

In reply to Anne @ Unique Gifter.

I think that’s why I liked it. SO many documentaries are almost all facts, and don’t focus on emotions at all. It was extreme the one way though.

I didn’t think about that with respect to A Long Way Gone. It’s so sad..

By: Daisy

Daisy — Thu, 13 Feb 2014 14:38:18 +0000

In reply to Jordann. I've watched all of those! I really liked Forks over Knives.

By: Jordann

Jordann — Thu, 13 Feb 2014 13:04:09 +0000

Those are some great documentaries! I’m big into healthy food too, so I would also recommend you watch Forks Over Knives, Food Inc, and Fat, Sick and Nearly Dead. They’re all available on Netflix and are all worth watching.

By: Anne @ Unique Gifter

Anne @ Unique Gifter — Wed, 12 Feb 2014 15:38:31 +0000

I’ll have to watch the rest of those documentaries you mentioned (one day, one day). I didn’t love vegucated… it seemed light on facts to me, and used 100% emotion and only talked about emotion. Obviously that’s a big part of things, but I found it to be pretty disappointing.
I read A Long Way Gone awhile ago and my spouse pointed out a good point after reading it: there is a lot of allusion to rape, but never an acknowledgement of participation in it, which is likely. Just a thought. I found it to be disturbing because the guy is basically the same age as me, so I spent a lot of time thinking about what I was up to during the years he was talking about. My experiences were RATHER different.

By: Ryan @ Impersonal Finance

Ryan @ Impersonal Finance — Mon, 10 Feb 2014 23:59:49 +0000

I feel totally out of touch, as I haven’t seen/read/heard any of these. I think I’ll start with hungry for change, because if it’s on Netflix, it makes it that much easier for me to do!

By: Robin

Robin — Mon, 10 Feb 2014 22:20:13 +0000

The Book Thief is amazing… I loved the book and cried all throughout the end and for quite a while afterward. The movie is beautiful but does not pull at your heart in the same way that the book does. I’ll admit to also having cried during the movie, but only because I remembered certain scenes from the book – emotional memory, if you will. I saw the movie with my stepmother who hadn’t read the book, and she (who has a much softer heart than I) didn’t find it to be sad.

By: saverspender

saverspender — Mon, 10 Feb 2014 19:53:15 +0000

That seals it I am giving The Book Thief a try even though it will probably give me nightmares and make me cry.

By: NZ Muse

NZ Muse — Mon, 10 Feb 2014 10:13:44 +0000

The Book Thief is one of my top reads of all time. Which is why I don’t want to see the film.

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