Book Review: Lessons In Chemistry
A Two-Minute Book Review
Another Bookstagram Made Me Do It book, and I had a hard time with it at first.
Elizabeth Zott is justifiably prickly. She is more intelligent than everyone around her, but because she is a woman in the early 60s, everyone assumes she’s stupid. It makes her abrupt and unwilling to just go along with the flow. (I pictured Temperance Brennan from The US TV show “Bones.”) I liked her as a character.
However, Elizabeth’s interactions with her hyper-chauvinistic peers and bosses were painful until I saw them for what they were: over-exaggeration for effect. A Misogynistic Melodrama!
Using that lens, I relaxed and rolled with the story, which finished with a big, happy crescendo of an ending, like a Disney movie on steroids.
I can see why so many loved it. It was unique, engaging, and features a super-smart dog as one of the main characters.
I read this as an ebook checked out of my local library using the Libby App.
Have you read this BUZZ-worthy book? What did you think?
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