![]() I was getting a hell of a kick out of Rosa for about the first half of this book. Though Rosa tries several times to induce an abortion, Sulfia has the baby, a beautiful little girl whom Rosa names Aminat and on whom she utterly dotes. It is about Rosalinda Achmetowna, a Tartar woman of exceptional beauty, intelligence, and organizational skills (or so she says), whose ugly daughter Sulfia finds herself pregnant. (Not promptly, I can’t say I always do it promptly, but from now on, I’m going to bring it with the promptness.)Īnyway, this is Alina Bronsky’s second novel published with Europa. ![]() I have this TBR shelf and it has made me into a responsible book blogger who reads the books she receives for review. The Hottest Dishes of the Tartar Cuisine is the first of a number of books I received for review at various points in the year, and now am going to review over the next week or two. There is no reason to suppose that I will like them any less than the books I would have gotten at the library. You have all these books right here in your own very room.” And then I read those books instead, and honestly? I bought or asked for most of those books myself. Now when I am wondering what to read, and I think longingly of library books, my TBR shelf is like a stern little taskmaster going “Oh no you don’t, missy. ![]() ![]() I’ve made the top section of my little bookshelf into a priority-reads shelf. It turns out that a TBR shelf was the best idea I ever had. ![]()
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