So, the Blood, Bones & Butter book started off amazingly, beautifully, then got kind of normal/regular, even gappy. Now, in the middle of the book, just as she is opening up her first restaurant (Prune in NYC), Hamilton hits a beautiful, poetic, big-idea-meets-great-language slick that I am happily riding . Lovely.
What are you reading?
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NYT book review covered this book last week and had a nice pic of her. I'll save it for you.
Thanks, Sophia. I'd like to see that.
Christine, I'm always grabbed by the cover of that book when I walk past it! :)
I just started (meaning I picked it up but haven't started it yet) A Discovery of Witches. It seems to be a popular but not James Patterson-y type book. Sorry I don't have much to say about it, but hopefully I will soon! :D
Sounds like an interesting read, Christine. I loved Kitchen Confidential (Bourdain), and this sounds like another good insider's-look book.
I just finished the Hunger Games trilogy, Suzanne Collins. I had read the first book years ago (Hunger Games), and didn't realize until Martha mentioned it that the 2nd (Catching Fire) and 3rd (Mockingjay) were available. I loved the situational details and the complexity of the characters and the moral dilemmas. It's an escapist fantasy, which is exactly what I needed.
I've just checked out Hugo Cabret, Selznick, but have not yet started.
I just finished Lisa Genova's Left Neglected, and I found it pretty satisfying, although I noticed a predictable pattern to Genova's books (thus far--to be fair, she's only got two). Woman is educated, well-heeled, successful, has a family, is extremely-capable-and-proud-of-it. Some aspects of her family are less-than-perfect or have skeletons. Woman suffers an injury or illness that is debilitating to her brain. By going through this illness or injury, woman learns more about the family skeletons and also repairs/improves the ailing relationship(s) in her family, while also recognizing that her life will never be the same and that she may never regain the same abilities she had pre-illness/injury. I still like the books though.
I've begun reading Consumed: How Markets Corrupt Children, Infantilize Adults, and Swallow Citizens Whole, by Benjamin Barber. I think it'll be a quick, light, fun read. Just kidding. I read for an hour-and-a-half last night and didn't even get through the first chapter. But I think it's an important book and I'm looking forward to finishing it.
I'm reading Sunshine, also by Robin McKinley. The voice reminds me quite a bit of Sunshine, but I'm really enjoying the scientific version of dragons quite a bit. If anywhere in the world were going to have dragons, it would be Australia. And if we ever found them, we certainly would hunt them to the brink of extinction.
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