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Originally Posted by NewPhin
How is Committed? I liked EPL fairly well, though I enjoyed it more while I was reading it than I did in retrospect. Certain sections I enjoyed, but I was pretty tired of her by the end of the book.
The Chinese food book sounds good. I'm still cranking through the Oxford American food issue and enjoying it. Also been rereading Carver's Cathedral for discussion with my writing class.
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I'm only 100 pages into Committed. It is nowhere near the same level of quality. I'm only reading it out of, erm, commitment to Gilbert (who I find to be a lovely writer).
I've had the food issue of OA for over a month now but I haven't started it yet. I've got some books to read before I'll get into it (those books being the aforementioned Shark's Fin & Sichuan Pepper,
The Possessed: Adventures with Russian Books and the People who Read Them by Elif Batuman, and Steve Almond's new nonfiction book,
Rock and Roll Will Save Your Life: A Book By and For the Fanatics Among us (with Bitchin' Soundtrack).)
Ah, Carver. Such a master.