I've recently started two new books. The fist is Bob Butz's Going Out Green. Butz, author of Beast of Never: Cat of God begins the new book with an intriquing premise: plan his own green funeral over the course of just twelve weeks. The fact that he is not dying makes the premise a bit of an oddity, but he is a journalist so the story works. Butz is a journalist with a sense of humor. The story's backdrop is mostly northern Michigan, where Butz lives, so many of the locations and sentiments are recognizable to those of us who live here.
The other book I've begun is Born to Run by Christopher McDougall. Also a journalist, McDougall sets off for Mexico in search of the mythical Tarahumara Indians, a tribe from the Sierra Madre mountains said to parley their diet of barbequed mouse and corn beer into an ability to run hundreds of miles at a time over rough desert and mountain terrain wearing little more than sandals and skirts. McDougall predictably finds, so far anyway, that the story is both more and less than advertised. Stay tuned and more importantly, keep reading.
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