22 - A book with a title that contains "salty", "sweet", "bitter" or "spicy"

[Susanne]

Rachel wrote: "That's the first time I've tried replying to a message on Goodreads, so I don't know why it came out like that... sorry!"

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[Rachel]

Thank you everyone for your help!

[Cindy]

The Sweet Life in Paris: Delicious Adventures in the World's Most Glorious - and Perplexing - City
Fun! Bill Bryson meets the Food Network. Yum!

[Theresa]

Hot Sour Salty Sweet: A Culinary Journey Through Southeast Asia

Reads more like travel essays than a cookbook. Wonderful!

[Nancy]

I am reading Magic Bitter, Magic Sweet. It is an easy read and kinda cute. Its the first time I am reading this author also and I know he has other books that I might give a try.

[Britany]

Finished Sweetbitter by Stephanie Danler

My Review:
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

[SadieReadsAgain]

I read Serious Sweet by A.L. Kennedy for this. This is heavy duty. It's long in page length and dense in prose, and had I not had a reading challenge goal to force me to plough through it I think I'd have lagged with this one. I like Kennedy, I've enjoyed her short stories and adored Everything You Need, but this book didn't blow me away. I really enjoyed how the story was told, in two perspectives heavy on the stream-of-consciousness between the star-crossed Meg and Jon. I liked that this was a love story where the lovers are older, have been through some shit and that no one else was involved. I liked the side-dishes of Meg being a recovering alcoholic and Jon staging his own WikiLeaks moment. But...I really wasn't a fan of Jon. I know this is a story of two damaged people hoping to find something worthwhile in another person, and it isn't essential to me that I like a character. But in a will-they/wont-they love story where you really want to be rooting for the couple it kind of kills the mood to have such a wet blanket for a love interest. London is so ubiquitous in this book too, which felt a bit oppressive. I don't mind the place, but I could smell and taste and feel London on my skin whilst reading and it made me feel quite bleak. Though that's probably a very personal take on it, a Londonphile may find it a plus point - it's a credit to Kennedy's skill that she could provoke that reaction. And I have to come back around to Kennedy's skill, because I do really love her writing. It is in turns beautiful and harsh, poetic but still littered with profanity...just the kind of writing I adore.