Why do people write memoirs when their lives weren't that interesting? I give the author kudos for trying to theme her stories around food, but even that couldn't hold my interest past 100 pages.
The Great Man - Kate Christensen I’m quite grateful to the former colleague who left this book in my office despite my protestations that I don’t have the time to read this as well and that I’m not interested and that I already have several dozen books at home waiting to be read (and reviewed) anyw...
A beautiful read that ties the bonds of food and life.
2/15/13 SA
2/15/13 SA
Harry Quirk has just been thrown out of his apartment (The Astral building) by his wife, Luz, when she suspects him of writing poems for another women, her best friend, Marion. Harry doesn't understand what happened and seems more confused than anything about his impending divorce. The author does...
Although We are set up to disapprove of Hugo, the main character, I would be surprised if any reader really disliked him. He is a self-described hermit who has little patience for other people, even his own family. But really he is charming, impish, subversive, and, most winningly, acutely aware of ...
The "great man" of the title of this book, painter Oscar Feldman, never actually appears except as a topic of other characters' conversations, since he's already dead when the novel opens. However, as we learn about him through the perspectives of the three very different women who were closest to h...
It sounds corny, but this book helped me get through my first year of marriage with my sanity and our relationship intact.
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