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A review by shreyas1599
Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus
4.0
Decent read. Quite different from my usual dabbling in crime fiction. Couple of things I enjoyed:
1. The cooking show was a nice touch.
2. At one stage in the book the writer squeezed in alternating paragraphs between narrating from the protagonist’s story and her daughters story. Rather than devoting separate chapters to each narration. Kind of liked for the way it described multiple things happening in the protagonist’s life.
3. While it was hard to read the gory rape description in the beginning, it drove home the point of the magnitude of struggles early in the story.
Couple of things I did not enjoy:
1. Happy ending? - while I understand that a happy ending after lots of struggle is a nice cherry on top, after keeping it real for a good chunk of the book, I did not think a happy ending was due but I appreciate the reasoning.
2. Still can’t wrap my head around how almost every woman in the country started enjoying learning chemistry? - there is a reasoning provided through one of the viewers in the book but I still can’t comprehend it fully.
1. The cooking show was a nice touch.
2. At one stage in the book the writer squeezed in alternating paragraphs between narrating from the protagonist’s story and her daughters story. Rather than devoting separate chapters to each narration. Kind of liked for the way it described multiple things happening in the protagonist’s life.
3. While it was hard to read the gory rape description in the beginning, it drove home the point of the magnitude of struggles early in the story.
Couple of things I did not enjoy:
1. Happy ending? - while I understand that a happy ending after lots of struggle is a nice cherry on top, after keeping it real for a good chunk of the book, I did not think a happy ending was due but I appreciate the reasoning.
2. Still can’t wrap my head around how almost every woman in the country started enjoying learning chemistry? - there is a reasoning provided through one of the viewers in the book but I still can’t comprehend it fully.