Books by Aimee Bender
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review 1: After I read the first story or two in this book I wanted to put it down. I felt since I received a free copy that I should at least finish the book to give a fair review. So, I finished the book. I felt that the stories left me feeling sad, confused, and many times just thinking...
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review 1: this is actually a 2.5 star rating - some of these were really interesting stories. i liked how literal her writing was, and then all of a sudden a shot of metaphor, hugely vivid imagery, out of nowhere. some of these didn't work for me at all - i ended up skimming or skipping th...
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review 1: The Particular Sadness of Lemon cake opens with 9 year old Rose realizing that she has the ability to taste the emotions in her food of the person who prepared it. Aimee Bender did a solid job of setting up the story of Rose's troubled family in a believable way, despite Rose's ...
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review 1: Anyone who says this book went nowhere either didn't finish reading it, wasn't paying attention, or didn't have enough imagination to suspend disbelief. I am surprised by the bad reviews. In Bender's "The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake," there was more honesty about human nat...