The Sharper the Knife....Finally!

So I finally finished The Sharper Your Knife. When I read it it went really fast but I really had to force myself to pick up the book. Of course the story is inspiring to a degree. It would be difficult to take the leap, move to Paris, invest your savings in a cooking school, "putting all your eggs in one basket" sort of deal. However, she had the full support of a man, apparently plenty of money to spend on her new undertaking, and opportunity, as she had just been fired from her current job. So, although this might be difficult, all of the things she needed seemed to fall in place for her. For this she is very lucky-I wish things worked like that for me!!!
Also, I agree with what several people have said about the writing; seemed to be choppy, more of a report from a journalist than a narrative from an author to me. Also, I felt like every chapter was sort of the same story only with a different food; she goes to class, makes the selected food, gets yelled at (or gets complimented further along in the book), takes the food home, eats it with Mike, and gets up and does the same thing the next morning! Another thing that sort of annoyed me was that neither her nor Mike were working and she was putting all of her savings into LCB, yet they were always going out with friends or, during Kathleen's breaks from class, traveling! How do they do it!?!?!
I did enjoy the very subtle idea of overcoming adversity and not giving up. It would have been really easy for Kathleen to say "these chefs are mean, there is no hope for me, I can't to anything right," etc. but she stuck with it, even when she was consistently getting a hard time from Chef. This obviously paid off in the end because Chef praised her for not giving up and she seemed to be doing everything right towards the end of the book!
There were feel-good moments for me and moments that made me smile but overall I was not really into this book.