This book was SUPER cute, I found it adorable. It was my first time reading Maureen Johnson and made me want to read much more of her!

This book was mentioned on Episode 1 of Checking Out. Listen here!

Possible Read Harder 2020 Prompts: Food about a cuisine you've never tried.
Possible Pop Sugar 2020 Prompts: Recommended by a podcast, by a woman of color, birthday month (September)

To be honest as an autistic person cookbooks for me are hard, I have my safe foods and it's hard for me to find new things that I can actually eat. I decided to read this book on a recommendation by Jen Hatmaker and Aarti's wonderful episode. I really enjoyed the parts of this cookbook that told a story, and the recipes were interesting. I did find some new ones to try, and I refuse to rate down just because there weren't a whole lot I would make. Granted, I read this as someone who has never had Indian food and is an extremely sensory eater, so that's not on Sequeira at all, but on me totally. There were some recipes that looked stunningly delicious and I can't wait to move into my apartment to try them.

I didn't expect this book to steal my heart but it did.

I should probably read this book again, now that I'm older and "wiser" and because the last time I read it I was in 8th grade. I remember being so disappointed by this book, because I LOVE Huck Finn in "Tom Sawyer" which I've read multiple times. I don't remember specific criticisms as it was over 10 years ago, but this is making me want to reread it now and compare, especially cause so many loved it.

(Please note: I am going through all of my read books with an attempt to star and review, at some point, all of these books will have a decent review, I promise.)