Robin's Reading List-October

I am sorry that the October reading list book is a few days late.

I was out of town, over the weekend,

 but here we go....

this month's book is,

LESSONS IN CHEMISTRY

by 

Bonnie Garmus

 Chemist Elizabeth Zott is not your average woman. In fact, Elizabeth Zott would be the first to point out that there is no such thing as an average woman. But it’s the early 1960s and her all-male team at Hastings Research Institute takes a very unscientific view of equality. Except for one: Calvin Evans; the lonely, brilliant, Nobel–prize nominated grudge-holder who falls in love with—of all things—her mind. True chemistry results. 

But like science, life is unpredictable. Which is why a few years later Elizabeth Zott finds herself not only a single mother, but the reluctant star of America’s most beloved cooking show Supper at Six. Elizabeth’s unusual approach to cooking (“combine one tablespoon acetic acid with a pinch of sodium chloride”) proves revolutionary. But as her following grows, not everyone is happy. Because as it turns out, Elizabeth Zott isn’t just teaching women to cook. She’s daring them to change the status quo.  

Laugh-out-loud funny, shrewdly observant, and studded with a dazzling cast of supporting characters, Lessons in Chemistry is as original and vibrant as its protagonist.

I chose this book, for this month (breast cancer awareness month) for my Pink Sister, Judy Dills. It is because of Judy that I had a mammogram in 2012 when they found a tumor. Judy recommended this book to me and now I recommend it to you.

I enjoyed this book very much and hope that you do too. One more thing....please have your breast cancer screening. 

 

Always, Robin