A couple leave behind all modern trappings and move to a community that, as the backcover blurb reads, “even the Amish consider antiquated.” The front cover contains a brief blurb from Jon Krakauer, author of Into Thin Air, that makes me wonder if we read the same book. Krakauer says that Brende doesn’t come off as sanctimonious. I have to disagree. Maybe it’s my self-conscious love for, I don’t know, electricity, but I definitely detect a little sanctimonious tone. A technology bad, living off the land all good tone. Still, despite that, I enjoyed the book. It did make me wonder if I could get by with less technology, but there’s no way I’m turning the switch, so it’s just idle thought.