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August 11, 2022August 11, 2022

Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus. Review aka my random thoughts I had read a

Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus.
***Review aka my random thoughts***

I had read a lot about this book. It's a debut and has smashed all types of records in terms of sales and readership and its author is a former and very experienced copywriter so you'd be hoping that it'd be written well.
It is written very well. It zips along nicely with some excellent characters and a neatly woven plot.

This is a fun story about our main character, Elizabeth Zott. She is a chemist who hosts a cooking show because it's the early 1960s and sexism, sexual assault, scientific theft and discrimination all prevent her from working as the actual scientist she craves to be. But when she becomes utterly famous on her TV show, "Supper At Six," things start to get interesting.

I read this book quickly and I read it over the holidays in France. It's a perfect holiday read, whatever that means. To me it means that it's easy to pick up wherever you are.

I loved Elizabeth though she does come across very unlikeable. I admire her not giving a sh€ # about other people's opinions but I also found it implausible that a woman in that time would push things as hard as she had. I found other really serious issues like rape and sexual assault were not given enough space in the writing in terms of how this impacted on Elizabeth. It was dealt with in a very sparkly let's move on kinda way. Come on, gals, toughen up! 😬

This will absolutely be a film or a TV series and it's worth reading for the realisation you might have that things have changed ever so slightly for females and the world of seemingly masculine careers like science.

A fun book club read. I'd be happy to have written this type of plot and characterisation.

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