Wednesday, September 12, 2007
Book Club Food: There's a Slight Chance...
Looks like I'm falling behind on these, but it's been a hot, uninspiring summer. Not entirely unlike our latest book, There's a (Slight) Chance I Might be Going to Hell by Laurie Notaro. We thought, hey, it's summer. Let's read a chicklit beach book since we're all running in and out of town and our newest member is getting married. It will be a lark!
Frankly, I'm not going to give the summary much time here, other than to say that the main character moves away from her friends into a tiny, "perfect" small town built on money from the sewer pipe industry and, finding that she is shunned as all newcomers are in tiny towns, decides to run for Sewer Pipe Queen with the sponsorship of a formerly worshiped but later run out of town beauty queen. You will enjoy this book if the following apply to you:
a) You are a Laurie Notaro junkie and it doesn't matter what she writes.
b) You enjoy SciFi Original movies, like Mansquito and Raptor Island featuring Lorenzo Lamas.
c) You are the kind of woman that enjoys both beauty pageants and bodily humor jokes, primarily the latter.
d) You thought the XFiles would be way better if every case revolved around fake dog poo.
e) You think being thrown into a pool is hilarious. An empty pool.
f) You sympathize with people that are, in general, unsympathetic.
My thought is, if you enjoyed a previous Notaro book, by all means, go read it again. Not that this book is entirely without merit. The middle to latter part where the main characters work towards redemption and self-discovery, solving a decades-old mystery and becoming friends is quite lovely. Unfortunately that part ends abruptly and ridiculously.
Anyway, if you are somehow still inclined to read it, here is our menu from the meeting which, as you can imagine, spent as little time discussing the book as possible if only to keep me from turning purple. The main food item mentioned in the book was a variety of organic donuts. But, we picked a theme of American Summer Food.
Our Menu
Turkey burgers (mixed with Worcestershire, Lipton's Golden Onion Mix, and parsley)
Cheese and crackers
Spinach dip and baguette
Feta cheese and Grape Tomato Salad
Corn and Black Bean Salad
Summer Berry Icebox Pie
Honey Margaritas
Frankly, I'm not going to give the summary much time here, other than to say that the main character moves away from her friends into a tiny, "perfect" small town built on money from the sewer pipe industry and, finding that she is shunned as all newcomers are in tiny towns, decides to run for Sewer Pipe Queen with the sponsorship of a formerly worshiped but later run out of town beauty queen. You will enjoy this book if the following apply to you:
a) You are a Laurie Notaro junkie and it doesn't matter what she writes.
b) You enjoy SciFi Original movies, like Mansquito and Raptor Island featuring Lorenzo Lamas.
c) You are the kind of woman that enjoys both beauty pageants and bodily humor jokes, primarily the latter.
d) You thought the XFiles would be way better if every case revolved around fake dog poo.
e) You think being thrown into a pool is hilarious. An empty pool.
f) You sympathize with people that are, in general, unsympathetic.
My thought is, if you enjoyed a previous Notaro book, by all means, go read it again. Not that this book is entirely without merit. The middle to latter part where the main characters work towards redemption and self-discovery, solving a decades-old mystery and becoming friends is quite lovely. Unfortunately that part ends abruptly and ridiculously.
Anyway, if you are somehow still inclined to read it, here is our menu from the meeting which, as you can imagine, spent as little time discussing the book as possible if only to keep me from turning purple. The main food item mentioned in the book was a variety of organic donuts. But, we picked a theme of American Summer Food.
Our Menu
Turkey burgers (mixed with Worcestershire, Lipton's Golden Onion Mix, and parsley)
Cheese and crackers
Spinach dip and baguette
Feta cheese and Grape Tomato Salad
Corn and Black Bean Salad
Summer Berry Icebox Pie
Honey Margaritas
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