Foot and Fire

After reading Jason Lusk's Unnaturally Delicious, I had a mixed feelings about GMOs because as far as possible I want the "native" variety or those which I saw my parents were serving us when we were little, about insisting on cage-free organic eggs and chicken because I hate feeds, about food preservation to cut down food waste because there is also som sense in using "all" animal parts so that they won't go to waste even if it means using allowed chemicals to prolong it. 

This is a Young Reader's Edition of I am Malala by Malala Yousafzai and Patricia Mcormick. There is a regular version of the memoir which was presented unabridged.  Anyhow, I still read this book when I decided to do so because I was always in doubt starting it because basically, her story is already known to me, and it's linerar. But while progressing, I am happy that I started it and what I knew is only the tip of an iceberg. There's a warm feeling for her. I appreciated this book more as Malala's personality sketch. One can learn a bit about how the seed of her fervor started.  Also, I love the idea that there is a young reader's version of her book because young readers can grab the book and read the same and can come to a conclusion that 1} they should appreciate going to school; 2} they can make a difference at any given age; 3} help others even one is in distress herself (access Malala.org for her initiative to give education to all children aroun...

I was planning to read this heavy book before the year ends but because we were on forced homestay, I got the chance to start and finish it. I am happy that I chose this book over my stack of titles because it is a timely book to read given the pandemic that we are experiencing right now.   The author warmed up by explaining how we as Sapiens remained as the only homo in the story of our evolution. It is not physical strength but or language that made us through. I mentioned that this is a heavy book but of course, I judged it by its title but as I went through the chapters, actually this book is very readable and tinged with wit, or maybe it just cannot be helped that our lives since time immemorial is filled with irony. For example, we survived because we tend to gossip and believe in myths. hahahaha!