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Book Review of Blood, Bones & Butter: The Inadvertent Education of a Reluctant Chef

Blood, Bones & Butter: The Inadvertent Education of a Reluctant Chef
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This book is a memoir written by someone who has had too many classes in fiction writing and not enough experience with non-fiction. She kept the themes about family and relationships running throughout the book, and described things in detail, sometimes minutely and excruciatingly. As a writer she is much better suited to fiction than this memoir. It was a really tough read. I did like the last essay added in the back at "A Reader's Guide". If the book was just a series of essays in stead of these long drawn out chapters, it would have worked much better, I think.