Fun reread of one of my childhood favorites.

Historical fiction revolving around the sexism of the 60’s.

The main character, Elizabeth Zott is the star of a popular cooking show “Supper at 6”. But she is much more than that—she is a chemist. And a single mother. And a damn good feminist

This is a portrayal of all the ways women were abused and held back. But Elizebeth worked hard to fight against that and to raise her own daughter without limitations.

Excellent fast paced adventure story with magical creatures.

This one was strange. I did not like it as much as the first.

Good points: empathy. Bits of humour. Insight into an aging population and their perspective

Bad points: I felt there was much more passive racism, homophobia, etc. In this one that I don't remember being in the first. Its wasn't a big part of the book, but enough that it left a bad taste. It was of the viewpoint of the main character, but as this is an epistolary it was included with not comments by the writer to negate them

I don't know if things were lost or changed in translation. But this was set in the Netherlands and having them talk using the imperial system was annoying. I felt like there was a conscious choice somewhere to dumb it down for an American audience and I didnt like being treated that way. It broke the barrier of being set in a different county.

I’m not sure how much of my love for this book is due to it being on audio. Normally I don’t have much fondness of a book that is an expose of someone’s life spanning decades. They kind of bore me. Commonwealth was the only other Ann Patchett Nobel I’ve read and I was quite meh on that one. But this one—I loved.