Berries, Beans and Birds

A few fun and odd summer reading titles. Finnish class is over and we have a week off before the next class begins so I'm glad to have a bit of a break and I fully intend to read something completely fluffy without any fuzzy a's or disappearing k's. :)

• The Berry Bible : With 175 Recipes Using Cultivated and Wild, Fresh and Frozen Berries ≈ Berries are big here. Real big.
• The Eater's Guide to Chinese Characters ≈ I hope that there's an appendix for ways to deal with deciphering what the popular dishes really contain.
• Going Nucular: Language, Politics, and Culture in Controversial Times ≈ There could probably be an entire book written on the usage of the word "Freedom" over the past 4 years alone. :)
• Field Guide to the North American Bird ≈ To complement The F-Word book.
• Vanilla: Travels in Search of the Ice Cream Orchid ≈ The micro-topic history books just keep on coming.
• Twentieth Century Sprawl: Highways and the Reshaping of the American Landscape ≈ The US Interstates revolutionised travel in the US as well as altered the landscape of small town America forever.