Fini!

I finished The Sharper Your Knife last night. It was okay. I feel badly that I'm not more excited about these books. They haven't been bad and it's been fun to pick up books I'd probably not otherwise read. But TSYK, I struggled a little with because I was curious how it was that a woman who had been a writer and went on to LCB wrote a fairly ho-hum narrative. The story was interesting. I can't imagine doing what she did. I can't believe they ate some of the things they ate (I did NOT know coq au vin was rooster! Wow!). But, I felt like the way she wrote the story was choppy and sometimes I had to go back and re-read information to find my place in the story. Par example: The sister's broken heart over Sarbonne... I felt like Flinn did explain the sister's love for Paris but the part about the Sarbonne packet coming when their dad got sick got pretty lost in all of that "how I came to want to be at LCB"... but then referring back to sis's heartbreak and wanting to SEE Sarbonne... I didn't get it until I went back and found that place again.

Anyway, I'm curious to know what Flinn is doing now. Did she do it just so she could say she did, or did she actually use that knowledge in her foodie writings and reviews? So... comme ci, comme ca... "so-so". I was excited that not only did I know previously mentioned garlic smashing trick, but I also understood SOME of the French in the book. And I did know how to pronounce it in my head. That was fun. I do want to find the guy with all the hair... Marc? and drink some of his wine... :)

More soon!
Carlin