Oh, my, thank you! I read Lessons in Chemistry, based on my sister's book club recommendation. I doubt my book club would have read it. I finished it but barely and could not articulate why I didn't like it. Well written, topic of females in the sciences, etc. Nope, it left me cold. I read literary fiction, (in the middle of Book of Goos…
Oh, my, thank you! I read Lessons in Chemistry, based on my sister's book club recommendation. I doubt my book club would have read it. I finished it but barely and could not articulate why I didn't like it. Well written, topic of females in the sciences, etc. Nope, it left me cold. I read literary fiction, (in the middle of Book of Goose now!) then balance with what I call mind candy, commercial fiction, tending to police procedurals i.e. Sue Grafton, Sara Paretsky, Ian Rankin, Sarah Hilary, Jo Nesbo. The British and Scandinavian murder plots are much darker than American, I find. These endings balance the open ended literary fiction's final pages. BTW I'll second Julie V. and your mom about Gentleman in Moscow. As my grandson told me recently, Suck it up, buttercup:-)!
Oh, my, thank you! I read Lessons in Chemistry, based on my sister's book club recommendation. I doubt my book club would have read it. I finished it but barely and could not articulate why I didn't like it. Well written, topic of females in the sciences, etc. Nope, it left me cold. I read literary fiction, (in the middle of Book of Goose now!) then balance with what I call mind candy, commercial fiction, tending to police procedurals i.e. Sue Grafton, Sara Paretsky, Ian Rankin, Sarah Hilary, Jo Nesbo. The British and Scandinavian murder plots are much darker than American, I find. These endings balance the open ended literary fiction's final pages. BTW I'll second Julie V. and your mom about Gentleman in Moscow. As my grandson told me recently, Suck it up, buttercup:-)!