First of all, I should wait until my book club meets but I need to talk about this book now! We just read The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake. Now, I loved the premise of the book. I loved the idea of being able to taste someones feelings as you were eating. Not that I really want to posses that quality but I could buy that as someones "gift". That said, the book was just plain strange! I found myself reading and mid paragraph I was like.....What??? When did we switch from this to that? Not only that but......(SPOILER ALERT) what's with the brother?? I mean come on! You want me to believe he's a chair??
If you've read the book, I'd love to hear your comments. Maybe I completely missed something. My group gets together next Tuesday and I can hardly wait. This was not at all what I expected this book to be. I think the original idea was great but somewhere...it went sadly wrong.
Second, have you ever read a book, liked it, but could never really understand what all the excitement was about? I have that problem right now. The Help is one of those books for me. I bought it (over a year ago), read it, liked it but cannot, for the life of me, understand why it's been on the best sellers list for 66 weeks in a row. It was a good book - interesting characters, nicely written, especially for a first novel but for me, it lacked any lasting impression. I don't find myself going back and thinking about the characters and wondering what they are doing now - I don't have any interest in reading it again - i just don't really get it.
So, could someone explain the ongoing fascination? Again, I LIKED the book, it was a good read but I just don't see it as a classic, or worth 66 weeks on the best sellers list with no sign of an end.
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