Quote of the Week - Reichl

“When a person has lived generously and fought fiercely, she deserves more than sadness at the end.” 

~ Ruth Reichl, Garlic and Sapphires: The Secret Life of a Critic in Disguise

I love Ruth Reichl. The way she writes about food as life and life as food - it's as though everything she writes is a good meal - simultaneously comforting, enticing, inspiring, tantalizaing and satisfying.

It's Monday - stay in the fight; get what you deserve.

Be unapologetic.

Yes, it's another ten books!

I think my plan is to get to 100 and then compile one list.  I might even break it out into fiction and non-fiction.

1. Jitterbug Perfume - Tom Robbins

2. A Natural History of the Senses - Diane Ackerman

3. Perfume:  The Story of a Murderer - Patrick Suskind

4. Tender at the Bone - Ruth Reichl

5. White Oleander - Janet Fitch

6. The Secret History - Donna Tartt

7. Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell - Susanna Clarke

8. The Book of Lost Things - John Connolly

9. The Book of Dead Days - Marcus Sedgwick

10. Absurdistan - Gary Shteyngart

And, as usual, this list is overflowing and getting ready for the next one….kinda love this.