A lovely and often funny offering in the genre of memoirs/essays wrapped around food and recipes. However, it's a great before bedtime read since each chapter is a single piece. Colwin wrote these for food magazines, such as Gormet, from the 70s to the 90s. While some of her recipes will seem old-fa...
Wonderful, sweet, beloved book. Read it years ago, but a love story for the later half of the 20th century. What a smart comedy of manners that ISN'T trying to rip of Jane Austen, can read like. Enjoy!(I miss this author very much!)
I couldn't get used to the fact that these were relatively happy stories. Colwin mainly works with telling and not showing, but when she puts in details they are very good. Because of this, the story that I'll probably remember the most is the one about the pothead wife of a professor, because it ha...
I couldn't get used to the fact that these were relatively happy stories. Colwin mainly works with telling and not showing, but when she puts in details they are very good. Because of this, the story that I'll probably remember the most is the one about the pothead wife of a professor, because it ha...
I see almost nothing but raves about this book, many saying they've read it more than once. I have to say I don't get the appeal at all. Set in two places I have a lot of affection for, my native New York City and Cambridge, Massachusetts, the novel could be set anywhere, not really giving a sense o...
As soon as I finished this collection I wanted to go right back to the beginning and read it all over again. So I did. That's about the best endorsement I can think of for any book. Every one of the stories has something to offer in terms of humor and understated insight into human relationships. If...
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