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Saturday, June 12, 2010

There's a Fly in my Soup

I'm an avid reader. I taught myself to read at age 5. I am never without a book.

And now that we've bought a house, we've incurred many more expenses than my book leisure fund will allow me (we just replaced the hot water heater w/ a tankless system. CASHOLA!) So, I've banished myself to the local library. Now w/ 50% less drunken homeless people! And there's a cop there. I might have to go to the nicer suburban library but they don't have a cupcake bus there.

Anyways, I'm rambling...... I picked up a book called "The Recipe Club". I didn't really look inside the jacket. I assumed it was non-fiction. WRONG! OK then, it's probably a compelling story about food and friendship. WRONG! It was a poorly written collaborative piece between 2 awful awful writers w/ badly drawn derivative stock characters and their asinine problems w/ a few recipes thrown in. I swear, a 10 year old could have done a better job.

Please stay away from "The Recipe Club" by Nancy Garfinkel & Andrea Israel. If you want good food fiction, check out "Like Water for Chocolate".

Off to re-read a Tom Perrotta novel.....

7 comments:

Just A. Girl said...

Thanks for the suggestions! I'll have to check out Perrotta!

phairhead said...

OMG he's so awesome!!!!

Leslie said...

I'm currently reading A Seahorse Year by Stacy D'Erasmo. Really well written with a good story and well-drawn characters. :)

phairhead said...

Have to put that on the library list, thanks Leslie :D

Sarah said...

I've never heard of the book but I'll steer clear :)

Green Peccadilloes said...

Ah, good call - discovered him by picking up Little Children in the discount bin at Borders ages ago (I do love the discount bin...) Bravo on the tankless system - we thought about it when our tank blew, but after a series of house expenses just couldn't do it.

phairhead said...

GP: the Border's bargain bin = EPIC win!