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Lessons in Chemistry
by Bonnie Garmus
I usually don't like sciencey type of books, but this was able to hold my interest!
When it comes to science, my brain likes to shut down and stop working. Letters become numbers and numbers become ancient runes; and then I'm left with a headache for two hours that only taking a nap can resolve.
In <i>Lessons in Chemistry</i> the science isn't dumbed down or slim for women "to understand". It is very much there and is the prime focus of Elizabeth Zott's career. With ideals way ahead of her time, Elizabeth struggles for the world to see her for who she really is: a chemist. Only grumpy, Nobel-prize winner, Calvin Evans, is able to see just how brilliant she is.
But life doesn't always work out the way we want them to.
Fast forward four years later, Elizabeth is a single mother doing whatever she can to raise her daughter, Mad Zott. Which is how she ends up with a job as a TV host for a cooking show.
But this is the 1960's and no one wants to hear a woman spill out scientific recipes.
Right?
Elizabeth challenges the producers of the show, "Supper at Six" by refusing to cooperate with society's standards of what a woman should be. Instead, she trades in the ridiculous dresses for a lab coat and proceeds to teach other women watching her show how to use chemistry in their day-to-day lives.
And if none of this has convinced you to read this book, then maybe the fact that we get a point of view from the dog, Six-Thirty, will.
The miscommunication of naming her daughter is 100% me.
When it comes to science, my brain likes to shut down and stop working. Letters become numbers and numbers become ancient runes; and then I'm left with a headache for two hours that only taking a nap can resolve.
In <i>Lessons in Chemistry</i> the science isn't dumbed down or slim for women "to understand". It is very much there and is the prime focus of Elizabeth Zott's career. With ideals way ahead of her time, Elizabeth struggles for the world to see her for who she really is: a chemist. Only grumpy, Nobel-prize winner, Calvin Evans, is able to see just how brilliant she is.
But life doesn't always work out the way we want them to.
Fast forward four years later, Elizabeth is a single mother doing whatever she can to raise her daughter, Mad Zott. Which is how she ends up with a job as a TV host for a cooking show.
But this is the 1960's and no one wants to hear a woman spill out scientific recipes.
Right?
Elizabeth challenges the producers of the show, "Supper at Six" by refusing to cooperate with society's standards of what a woman should be. Instead, she trades in the ridiculous dresses for a lab coat and proceeds to teach other women watching her show how to use chemistry in their day-to-day lives.
And if none of this has convinced you to read this book, then maybe the fact that we get a point of view from the dog, Six-Thirty, will.
The miscommunication of naming her daughter is 100% me.