oprah_wimpy's reviews
401 reviews

I liked it. Some.good take aways that I'll hopefully be able to implement into my own life. Spoken in a way that readers in a younger age group can easily digest and grip ahold of.

So glad I chose to listen to this as an audiobook read by Stanley Tucci himself. The vivid portrayal of his life through food spoken in his own voice are much better captured. I was unaware that there would be actual recipes in it, so I will need to grab a copy for those specifically as they sound amazing.

He also makes me crave family recipes and cooking with my grandmother in this wonderful passage... "Losing a beloved family heirloom is a very real personal loss; they're things that cannot ever be replaced or re-created. But perhaps the most precious heirlooms are family recipes. Like a physical heirloom, they remind us from whom and where we came and give others, in a bite, the story of another people from another place and another time. Yet unlike a lost physical heirloom, recipes are a part of our history that can be re-created over and over again."

I saw a lot about this book online. Not having read anything by this author before, I figured I'd give it a shot if so many others had been so excited about it. Now I kind of worry about the taste of others. It was ok. But I don't get the hype. I kept hoping the plot was going to go somewhere. It just rambled. A lot.

Loved it! I've read a few books on the subject and this is the only one I'd come back to or suggest to a friend. He addressed a lot of the major points where I get hung up on getting rid of things in an approachable and helpful way. This really helped to kick start my journey with less again.

I can see why this book was on several reading lists. Moving and emotional. The author has such a way of describing her scenes that you feel as though you're the lonely marsh girl Kya yourself. A tale of loss and heartbreak so deep it made me cry on more than one occasion. I would recommend to anyone but be warned a few descriptions of abuse could be triggering to some readers.