Things I'd like to discuss when there's food in my belly

1. Slaughterhouse-five: Good book, not the greatest, but possibly the most over-hyped.

2. Eating Animals: For those who have always been on the fence between omnivorism and vegetarianism, this book will push you into a new stage of indecision where you desperately crave a cheeseburger, but cannot get the image of cows being skinned and slaughtered alive out of your head. (And there are a lot of such images in this book.)

3. Miranda July: The problem with short story collections by a writer with a distinctive voice/style is that it's her only voice/style and the stories fail to stand together as a collection; they blur together as a train of awkward social situations and it really doesn't make a difference which character is which. Also, this is the sign of the times.