Sample Saturday is when I wade through the eleventy billion samples I have downloaded on my Kindle. I’m slowly chipping away and deciding whether it’s buy or bye.
Sweetbitter by Stephanie Danler
Why I have it: Spotted on last year’s List of Lists.
Summary: Life, love and ‘waiting’ combine in a story about a woman’s first year in New York.
I’m thinking: Yes, love the writing.
Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Café by Fannie Flagg
Why I have it: Can’t believe I haven’t read this yet…
Summary: Two friends, two time periods, good barbecue and good coffee.
I’m thinking: Yes because where else will a line like “By the way, Idgie says that one of her hens laid an egg with a ten-dollar bill in it” not seem ridiculous?
Lunch in Paris by Elizabeth Bard
Why I have it: Spotted on a Top Ten Tuesday list (sorry, can’t remember whose!)
Summary: Visiting Paris, Elizabeth sat down to lunch with a handsome Frenchman – and never went home again. Was it love at first sight? Or was it the way her knife slid effortlessly through her pave au poivre?
I’m thinking: Yes. Can’t resist recipes woven into memoirs.
They all sound great – there’s nothing better when food is written about well.
An I think all quite different in style and intent.
Sweetbitter was one of books of last year. Absolutely loved it!
I remembered you’d enjoyed it 🙂
You must read Fried green tomatoes, as clearly you realise from the quote you’ve given.
The description of breakfast on page three was enough to win me over!
I didn’t even know Fried Green Tomatoes was a book.
Perhaps a case of ‘movie better than book’ but the book looks really good…
Fried Green Tomatoes is a good book. However, the film is one of my all-time-favourites and it is definitely one of those cases where the film is so much better than the book.
I read some pretty middling reviews of Sweetbitter but I picked it up at a used book sale anyways because it just sounded like a me book. I also haven’t read Fried Green Tomatoes (but absolutely plan to) and Lunch in Paris.. I also can’t resist recipes + memoirs. Man, I love food books.