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Stir: My Broken Brain and the Meals That Brought Me Home
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bookshelves: 2017-100-reviews, 2017-read, biography-true-story, cookery-food-diet, reviewed, medicine-science
Nov 22, 2017
bookshelves: 2017-100-reviews, 2017-read, biography-true-story, cookery-food-diet, reviewed, medicine-science
The author suffered a brain aneurysm in the gym and this brought her to the brink of death and a slow recovery with many operations. All this is mildly interesting, not terribly because she doesn't know any details, she just has the operations and describes the side effects and how she feels. Then we get a recipe.
At some point in the story Jessica marries her boyfriend Eli who likes to cook. She starts a food blog Sweet Amandine and since she can't work or study cooks a lot. All the recipes sound pretty nice but I skimmed over most. I was interested in the "Broken Brain" part of the book which was so-so, really the best part of it was the author has a lovely personality, just the sort of person everyone would like for a friend. I can't see the point of reading recipes if there isn't a picture of the finished dish especially in a non-cook book.
Three stars. Meaning it was ok, it wasn't a bad read, but not a book I'm enthusing over.
At some point in the story Jessica marries her boyfriend Eli who likes to cook. She starts a food blog Sweet Amandine and since she can't work or study cooks a lot. All the recipes sound pretty nice but I skimmed over most. I was interested in the "Broken Brain" part of the book which was so-so, really the best part of it was the author has a lovely personality, just the sort of person everyone would like for a friend. I can't see the point of reading recipes if there isn't a picture of the finished dish especially in a non-cook book.
Three stars. Meaning it was ok, it wasn't a bad read, but not a book I'm enthusing over.
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November 20, 2017
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November 22, 2017
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November 22, 2017
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November 22, 2017
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2017-read
November 22, 2017
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2017-100-reviews
November 22, 2017
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biography-true-story
November 22, 2017
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cookery-food-diet
November 22, 2017
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reviewed
November 22, 2017
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medicine-science
November 22, 2017
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