Not Becoming My Mother: and Other Things She Taught Me Along the Way

! Read ! Not Becoming My Mother: and Other Things She Taught Me Along the Way by Ruth Reichl ✓ eBook or Kindle ePUB. Not Becoming My Mother: and Other Things She Taught Me Along the Way would have been better as an essay according to Yoomi. I love Ruth Reichl and I devoured her other three books. Her writing about food and life was intriguing and memorable. So I was looking forward to this book. Like other reviewers, I also hadnt looked at the size or length when I ordered it so I was a bit surprised t. Lacking soul according to Kristine Lofgren. This book had so much potential: interesting subjects in both the lives of that generation of women and Ms. Reichls mother, a c

Author	:	Ruth Reichl
Rating	:	4.56 (502 Votes)
Asin	:	1594202168
Format Type	:	paperback
Number of Pages	:	128 Pages
Publish Date	:	2013-07-14
Language	:	English

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Unabridged CDs, 2 CDs, 2 hours Read by the author Bestselling author Ruth Reichl examines her mother's life, giving voice to the universal unarticulated truth that we are grateful not to be our mothers.

"would have been better as an essay" according to Yoomi. I love Ruth Reichl and I devoured her other three books. Her writing about food and life was intriguing and memorable. So I was looking forward to this book. Like other reviewers, I also hadn't looked at the size or length when I ordered it so I was a bit surprised t. "Lacking soul" according to Kristine Lofgren. This book had so much potential: interesting subjects in both the lives of that generation of women and Ms. Reichl's mother, a charming character. Ms. Reichl's writing is typically warm, vivid and engaging, but this "book" was none of those things, nor did it bring t. Excellent essay I really did enjoy the book and for the first time(I read her three other books), I liked the author as a person. The book is beautfully written and shows empathy for her mother and an understanding of the person that her mother was. My only disappointment was the le

Ruth Reichl is the editor in chief of Gourmet magazine and the author of the bestsellers Tender at the Bone and Comfort Me with Apples. She has been the restaurant critic at the New York Times and the food editor at the Los Angeles Times.

Reichl has created a masterful portrait of a mother-daughter relationship that will resonate with readers across generations. (Apr.)Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. The slender size of Reichl's memoir of her late mother's life belies its powerful tale of a young woman, Miriam Brudno, who bowed to societal and familial pressure to become a wife and a mother over pursuing a fulfilling career. From Publishers Weekly Starred Review. All rights reserved. So Miria