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Extinction Rebellion – This is Not a Drill | Review

Title: This is Not a Drill

Author: Extinction Rebellion

Type: Non-Fiction

Page Count: 208

Rating: 3.75/5

I’m not sure how exactly I feel about this one because I was kind of expecting more from it. Sure, there’s some great stuff in here on the subject of climate change, but there’s also a bunch of stuff that honestly didn’t really feel too relevant.

There’s also the fact that it took me about three days to read this, which was about a day longer than I was expecting. It was kind of weird because there were a ton of illustrations and pictures and stuff, but I just sort of bogged down in it all. Because of that, I worry that maybe it’s not the best introduction to people who want to get started with environmental activism, although it’s not like I can point you anywhere else, either.

All in all, I’d recommend this one if you care about the planet and want to learn a little more about what’s going on, but be warned that you’re also in for a lot of stuff about shutting down bridges and catering for large groups of people. That stuff wasn’t quite so relevant to me.

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Good Housekeeping – Step-by-Step Vegetarian Cookbook | Review

Title: Step-by-Step Vegetarian Cookbook

Author: Good Housekeeping

Type: Non-Fiction

Page Count/Review Word Count: 305

Rating 2/5

The low rating on this one is partly my own fault because I’m a vegan and not a vegetarian. Still, I saw this at a car boot sale going for peanuts, so I thought I’d pick it up anyway in the hope that I could veganise most of the recipes.

I didn’t end up doing that, but not because it wasn’t possible. It was more that there were very few recipes inside this book that actually took my fancy, and I think there were only a dozen or so that I ended up trying from the hundreds that were included here. Even fewer actually made their way into regular rotation in my recipe collection.

Part of that was down to the pictures, which weren’t particularly appealing, and part of it was down to the recipes, which kind of veered between too much hassle and overly simple. A lot of them just didn’t appeal to me as well, including a whole section on soups. I tried a few of them, but I pretty quickly got bored and realised that the soup recipes just weren’t going to be for me.

Ultimately, this book is better as a display book than as an actual reference book, and if you’re looking to cook something nice for a vegan or a vegetarian, you’re better off just Googling it and following a recipe that you find online, especially if you can get a video recipe. Otherwise, there’s not much point picking this up unless you can get it super cheap, like I did. It’s just okay for what it is, and maybe not even that. Go ahead and make of that what you will – and bon appetite, my friends.