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February 2011 - The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake

HOSTESS: Laura
PAGES: 292
PUBLISHED: 2010
MEETING DATE/TIME:  February 17th - 6:30PM
REASON CHOSEN: "It was recommended to me by several friends who are in book clubs."
FIRST IMPRESSION RATING (AVERAGE):  5

Corinna - 5
Kami - 3
Gina - 6
Meagan - 6
Rachel - 4
Monica - 5
Connie - 4
Britt -5
Laura - 7

The wondrous Aimee Bender conjures the lush and moving story of a girl whose magical gift is really a devastating curse. On the eve of her ninth birthday, unassuming Rose Edelstein, a girl at the periphery of schoolyard games and her distracted parents’ attention, bites into her mother’s homemade lemon-chocolate cake and discovers she has a magical gift: she can taste her mother’s emotions in the cake. She discovers this gift to her horror, for her mother—her cheerful, good-with-crafts, can-do mother—tastes of despair and desperation. Suddenly, and for the rest of her life, food becomes a peril and a threat to Rose. The curse her gift has bestowed is the secret knowledge all families keep hidden—her mother’s life outside the home, her father’s detachment, her brother’s clash with the world. Yet as Rose grows up she learns to harness her gift and becomes aware that there are secrets even her taste buds cannot discern. The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake is a luminous tale about the enormous difficulty of loving someone fully when you know too much about them. It is heartbreaking and funny, wise and sad, and confirms Aimee Bender’s place as “a writer who makes you grateful for the very existence of language”

The Art of Racing in the Rain Recap

What a fun book club and discussion last night ladies!  Overall everyone enjoyed the book.  Some of us felt the story was good but, we wanted to hear more about Enzo and less about the racing.  Some of us laughed, some of us cried and we all loved the charming Enzo and his family... :) 
Overall The Art of Racing in the Rain Rating: 8 

Gina - 9
Meagan - 8.5
Kami - 8
Corinna - 7
Rachel - 7
Monica - 7
Connie - 9
Britt - 7.5
Laura - 8

 

Kami, Meagan and Gina intently listening.

 

Britt and Connie

 

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