laura esquivel's like water for chocolate
along with the last book i read, my popular materials assignment required reading a bestseller written after 1990. i noticed yesterday that the one i'd chosen had 897 pages, and my paper is due thursday. finishing the book in time was theoretically possible, but those weren't really odds i wanted to play. luckily, i did own three bestsellers from 1990+, and since i hadn't read this one since college, and since it sort of fit thematically with the rachel field novel, it seemed like a good choice.
actually, i didn't like it as much as i remembered (despite the humor of my stupid marginal notes from comp lit 101), mainly due to the ending (which i didn't remember at all). still, it's an easy and fun read, and i do like the framing device of the different recipes. some parts are downright sexy, some are pretty dramatic (in the good way), and all of it is mouth-watering. it's a nice sunday morning sort of book.
2 comments:
I love that you're able to refer to books as "Sunday morning" types of books. It doesn't take you a whole Sunday to read it, just the *morning* ! The best I'm able to do lately is "a good Fall season book."
Yours in awe,
MIke
hee. that book isn't very long . . . it's one of those quick read sorts of things. if you had a free sunday morning, i'm sure you'd whip through it too.
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