Ruth Reichl – Cannonball Read 17

Mixed Bag Catch Up

Samarkand by Amin Maalouf

Shiloh by Shelby Foote

Blind Willow Sleeping Woman by Haruki Murakami

The Great Train Robbery by Michael Crichton

CivilWarLand in Bad Decline by George Saunders

Save Me the Plums by Ruth Reichl

May 20, 2021 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

Samarkand – 4/5 Stars This book immediately wonder how many novels have Omar Khayyam as a major or main characters. So in this way, being shown in careful detail and with loving care how and why Omar Khayyam is such an important person, cultural touchstone, and inspiration to such a huge part of the world is itself a gift that this novel offers. In addition to this, the sense of adventure in this novel that is created in the opening sections, and then carried over […]

The Cult of Ruth

Save me the plums by Ruth Reichl

June 15, 2019 by octothorp Leave a Comment

It is fairly strange reading a memoir about the height of the subject’s fame and realizing you contributed to it, that you were part of the reason that Reichl’s semi-dreaded “cult of Ruth” took place. But the way that Reichl feels about Gourmet magazine is how I feel about her writing. She writes about the early childhood infatuation with the magazine – the swordfish adorning a 1950’s cover beckoning her to delve deeper and read “the night of lobster” which transports the young Reichl and […]

Pancakes. Jello Shots. “Uptown Funk”.

Delicious! by Ruth Reichl

January 23, 2019 by janet snakehole 2 Comments

Swedish Fish. Movie Popcorn. My mom’s fudge that she makes every Christmas (sorry Mom). This is a list of things that I love SO VERY VERY much at first and I simply cannot get enough!!, but then OHHHH GODDDD I’m super sick of it. That’s exactly the list to which I am adding this sweet, charming but hooo-boy overly long book. It was just a little- actually quite a bit- too much and I should’ve quit while I was ahead. I have to say, I […]

Cheesy in a good way

February 29, 2016 by badkittyuno Leave a Comment

I feel like I shouldn’t have liked this book — the writing was mediocre, the plot a bit contrived — but something about it was charming enough that I stayed hooked until the end. “Change works both ways. You must accept those moments, experience them, and let them go. Because if you allow yourself to get stuck in that minute, nothing will ever change.” Billie Breslin used to love to cook, but something in her past (which you will figure out very quickly but won’t […]

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