. . . and another Book Club meeting is practically upon me, even though I haven't gotten to talk about the last one yet!
I'm around page 100 or so of The School of Essential Ingredients (for some reason I keep thinking it is the Kitchen of Essential Ingredients) and it's, well, readable. A little heavy on the imagery and metaphors again for me, but it's an interesting narrative in that it uses third person POV centered on a different character each chapter. It's true at least for me that when a bunch of people get together for something like a class, there can arise some curiosity about how they got there.
Oh, and the stuff the chef-teacher Lillian makes sounds delicious. Like lick-the-page delicious.
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Friday, March 18, 2011
Saturday, February 12, 2011
Book 1, Disc 3
O.K., I'm up to the third disc of The Corrections. I'm starting to get the idea about the theme of corrections.
Disc 2 talked about a proposed drug called "Correct-All" (at least that's how I think it's spelled, and yes, there is some talk about how it sounds like a certain other drug) whose formula originated in a long-ago patented formulation by the patriarch character.
I'd guess I'm about a third of the way through Disc 3, and there's a flashback to when the two now-adult sons were younger, and there's a comment that their desire to throw their arms around their father's legs upon his return from a business trip had been "corrected out of them." Sad.
Now I'm slogging through what I hope is the tail end of the flashback, where the younger son was left at the dinner table all night because he refused to eat his dinner. There's this long crazy equation of the unappealing food with his life, and all I could think was, "Come on! The kid's in first grade!"
This story seems to be growing in sadness the more I wade into it.
Also, I can't wait to bring up the "spouses resent each other" topic with all the married/divorced members in the group.
That oughta be good for at least ten minutes of discussion.
Disc 2 talked about a proposed drug called "Correct-All" (at least that's how I think it's spelled, and yes, there is some talk about how it sounds like a certain other drug) whose formula originated in a long-ago patented formulation by the patriarch character.
I'd guess I'm about a third of the way through Disc 3, and there's a flashback to when the two now-adult sons were younger, and there's a comment that their desire to throw their arms around their father's legs upon his return from a business trip had been "corrected out of them." Sad.
Now I'm slogging through what I hope is the tail end of the flashback, where the younger son was left at the dinner table all night because he refused to eat his dinner. There's this long crazy equation of the unappealing food with his life, and all I could think was, "Come on! The kid's in first grade!"
This story seems to be growing in sadness the more I wade into it.
Also, I can't wait to bring up the "spouses resent each other" topic with all the married/divorced members in the group.
That oughta be good for at least ten minutes of discussion.
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