Reviews and Comments

Not a book I'd recommend for casual reading, but WHAT a wild ride. Such an interesting life, and fascinating to get her perspective on all these situations where she's being a total nightmare to everyone around her and making incredibly bad decisions. Keep in mind: Jesus came by and told her that she's right and you're wrong, but she will pray for you.

Apfelkuchen was not a success. It would be fascinating to know what the intended result was! But there was no picture. What I got was a thin crusty layer, some goo, and dried out apple chunks on top. I found a food blogger who made it and seemed happy with it but hers looked the same as mine (bad).

It does actually taste pretty good, but that's because sugary baked apples with lemon zest are good even when there's some goo.

Fun to look through! I tried the puff pastry recipe and it worked just fine, but it could have been written more clearly -- I found it a puzzle to figure out how many turns you were meant to do. And the photographs along side it showed a different (but ultimately interchangeable) encasing technique than the text describes. I'll probably try a hot water crust recipe before it goes back to the library.

Beautifully written but confined (if not uncritically) within in a Cathy comic's grueling tedium of 1980s bourgeoisie gender norms. I think the ending made it work, however

I got this from the library out of curiosity -- it was such a thing ten years ago, that even though I never read it I felt like I knew everything in it by osmosis. I was reminded of it because I am approaching my first year anniversary of living in my new place and I thought it might be fun to follow this book as a bit. But ultimately it's seeped so thoroughly into the mainstream consciousness that commentating on it didn't seem that fun.

There is however one thing which no one told me: at one point she genuinely claims that completing her method will often cause people to have diarrhea.

I'm ready for the show now (I really hope it's good)

this just isn't doing it for me