Martina Geyrhalter itibaren Digheli, Assam , India

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05/02/2024

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2018-06-19 10:41

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I enjoyed this book, but not as much as the ridiculous blurbs on the book and other feedback I had head led me to believe I would. Although it contains several formative food experiences, this is ultimately a memoir about Gabrielle Hamilton's life, and while much of it is fascinating, I did lose interest at a few points. I also found myself, as I do about these things, wondering what the "blood, bones, and butter" is supposed to represent. I think (maybe?) how her bizarre family relations shaped her, how she finally began to find some structure in her life through taking control and achieving her dream of owning a restaurant, and the butter trying to reclaim some of what is good in her life and the rewards from that, although it takes a lot of working things through. Hamilton, with an MFA in the subject, is a fine writer, and some of her food memories are among the best I've read---especially her traveling experience, and how she was describing the bottles of wine she was given in Greece, and how you would drink however much you wanted, tie a band around it, and pay for what you drank. How she wanted to re-capture that experience in Prune. The world traveling was one tangent of the book that was tied in nicely to opening a restaurant, eventually---other tangents weren't. I think that, ultimately, for a personal memoir (which this really boils down to, no pun intended) there just wasn't enough introspection or enough about Hamilton's character explained. It got to the point where I was genuinely confused when the author said in the beginning she used to sit on her mother's lap every night, admired her French-ness and graceful ballerina poise and heels, and then suddenly reveals she hasn't seen her mother in 20 years. The quick explanation is because it's "easier". And the explanation of why she has a husband and children when she's clearly gay isn't very clear, either, except that it's described a few times as a joke or a prank. I lost a little sympathy for her at this point. There are some great stories in here about running a restaurant, but a memoir is something where you really have to be on board with the narrator the entire time for it to work, and at least a few times she lost me.

2018-06-19 13:41

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50¢ at a book sale, and with my current love of Sherlockia, I couldn’t resist, even though I was pretty sure I would hate it. I didn’t hate it. It’s too well-intended to hate, too joyfully fannish, and I must admit that some of Meyer’s footnotes on this “found” manuscript made me laugh out loud. (In case you’re curious, it was the one where Watson writes, “I believe it was in Julius Caesar that Shakespeare said…*” and Meyer’s footnote is simply, “*It’s not.”) However, this fannishness was I guess also part of what I objected to: I mean, it’s published fanfic, people! And while, you know, not that there’s anything wrong with that…I guess on some level I do see something wrong with that. I can’t take it seriously. I kept wanting to comment on Meyer’s LJ: “Sherlock Holmes meeting Freud? What an awesomely cracktastic idea! LOL” Furthermore, it didn’t help that the mystery that pads out the book was just that…padding. And not particularly interesting padding, either. Some of Arthur Conon Doyle’s plots may have been a bit…silly, but they’re so atmospheric, so well done! ‘The Speckled Band’ is really creepy! So’s The Hound of the Baskervilles! The train chase in this was just…long. So, with modern copyright laws, will Harry Potter ever come into the public domain? ‘Cause man, then Harry’s going to be meeting a lot of people nuttier than Freud, that’s for sure.

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