I know Franzen has gone out of style but I still enjoy him. This is the only novel I‘ve managed to finish this summer! Franzen just kind of zings you with these perfect paragraphs which, looking back, make up for the lackluster ending. And at the time, drive you forward. This isn‘t going to be the book you call in sick to finish, but it‘s a delight in its own way.

Listened to this on audiobook and was delighted to find that it‘s narrated by Liz Gilbert herself! She has a great voice for nonfiction: straightforward, no-nonsense, yet still conversational and warm. The content was perfect for my commute, and helped me tap into the not-so-obvious creative side of my job to re-energize my work.

This has been a very ADHD summer of starting a bunch of books and never finishing one... until now! I guess what I needed was some compelling nonfiction and Taubes delivered. He made the endocrinology of nutrition easy to understand and actionable.