Another Good Book, and a Few Good Cookies
Five Quarters of the Orange by Joanne Harris
Five Quarters of the Orange by Joanne Harris is filled with food. I’ve never read (gasp!) Chocolat (yet!), but I imagine that it was also filled with food, although of the sweeter kind. Five Quarters starts out sweet, then almost half way, gets dark and then darker and then a little mysterious. It’s about pleasure and repression. About family feuds past and present, innocence and experience, guilt, lies, and bold, fiesty hearts.
The writing is the best part. It’s simple but sumptuous and very real. And goes deliciously well with a stack of home made chocolate chip walnut cookies.
Chocolate Chip Walnut Cookies (not to be eaten with lemons)
January 5th, 2010 22:48
Is this her first you’ve read?! For SHAME!!! Now get to Blackberry Wine. And Chocolat, of course, and then the Lollipop Shoes, and then Holy Fools and Gentlemen and Players…
PS. Not to be eaten with lemons, haha!
January 5th, 2010 22:54
No no! I’ve read Holy Fools. Actually, you gave it to me. I really liked it. But I think next I’ll get Blackberry Wine.
Oh – and did I mention I got Four Quarters from She Said Boom for $8.00!