Welcome to Litsy!

2.5⭐️

#botm

#weeklyforecast @Cinfhen

I‘m trying very hard to get into the tagged book for my bookclub meeting this Friday, but I don‘t like the writing style and might bail 😔😩. I hate bailing on a BC read.

Almost done with Madly, Deeply, which will make me sad.

Just starting The Women Could Fly, looking forward to it!

And All the Living etc. is for another BC, hope it‘s better!

Have a great reading week!

Does anyone else get a chuckle out of it when by coincidence two of your current reads have pretty similar covers?

Almost finished with Sing, but I keep taking breaks because it‘s so emotional.

Taste Makers is for bookclub, meeting next Friday so I need to dig in.

Each chapter is about one woman that immigrated to the US and influenced our food culture. The chapters start decently with narratives on the life story of the women and why they wrote cookbooks. However, the rest of the chapter is bogged down with quotes about their competition cookbooks. So much competition that is clear that these woman did not singularly influence our cuisine and the specifics of their influence is lost. Needs better editing.

Cross posting my Goodreads review here: I was so excited for the topic and perspective this book was marketed to have. Some bits of the writing really had such charm and warmth - others were dry. After reading the first 70ish pages (I‘m debating DNF-ing altogether), the takeaway I have on the authors writing is that it seems like he took a bullet point list of facts and dates and just translated them into paragraphs.

7 pages in and already so excited to read all these stories ❤️ #tastemakers #botm #foodhistory

I really enjoyed this! Felt like the perfect audiobook for one of the most food-focused times in American culture. It had a wonderfully feminist tone (and was written by a man! Yay, we should all be feminists!). I appreciated the diversity of women represented, including those with disabilities. And I loved Tovah Ott's vibrant, sometimes passionate narration.