Joanna's review
Because I Said So: 33 Mothers Write About Children, Sex, Men, Aging, Faith, Race, and Themselves
by Kate Moses
French Laundry! There was a reference in this book, and in Service Included - what is the third reference you read? Isn't that funny? Since reading Service Included, I put on my list of things to do to eat at Per Se in NYC...
Yknow I'm not sure which other book referred to it, I racked my brain trying to include the titles in my review and finally just went with it. I remember thinking "oh! that restaurant again!" but it was a glancing comment... perhaps in Heat, which I will be reading for real soon but thumbed through already, or Kitchen Confidential which I read several years ago.... Could even have been Tender at the Bone or Garlic and Sapphires. I just know it was a book about restaurants and The French Laundry was mentioned with approval. I apparently am on a "book about restaurants" kick!
Joanna's review
Because I Said So: 33 Mothers Write About Children, Sex, Men, Aging, Faith, Race, and Themselves by Kate Moses
Joanna's review
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Supremely excellent collection. I enjoyed most all of these slices of life from intelligent, interesting mothers. I particularly enjoyed the story of Denise Minor, "There's No Being Sad Here" which is a piercingly accurate story of growing up alongside an autistic son, as well as the wry "Material Girls" from Margaret Talbot, a commentary on the American Girls craze. "Harry Potter and Divorce Among the Muggles" "Why I Can Never Go Back to the French Laundry" (where I am clearly destined to eat, since I have now revelled in it from three separate books) and "Mother of the World" were all simply excellent. Thanks for the loan, Cary!
French Laundry! There was a reference in this book, and in Service Included - what is the third reference you read? Isn't that funny? Since reading Service Included, I put on my list of things to do to eat at Per Se in NYC...
Yknow I'm not sure which other book referred to it, I racked my brain trying to include the titles in my review and finally just went with it. I remember thinking "oh! that restaurant again!" but it was a glancing comment... perhaps in Heat, which I will be reading for real soon but thumbed through already, or Kitchen Confidential which I read several years ago.... Could even have been Tender at the Bone or Garlic and Sapphires. I just know it was a book about restaurants and The French Laundry was mentioned with approval. I apparently am on a "book about restaurants" kick!