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Season To Taste: How I Lost My Sense Of Smell And Found My Way (2011)

by Molly Birnbaum(Favorite Author)

3.38 of 5 Votes: 3

ISBN

0061915319 (ISBN13: 9780061915314)

languge

English

genre

Memoir & Autobiography

publisher

Ecco

review 1: Truthfully, I skim-read the second half of this book after having suffered from "olfactory overload". I can respect the amount if research she put into her memoir and it explains why this is in the 612's and not biography or food writing. Ok, ok she gets her sense of smell back but other than that, what is the point?Sorry to be so judgmental, but after reading other "foodie memoirs of a 20 something girl who's daddy is a doctor" (sorry to both Molly's) it seems a little premature to write your life story before you've even experienced your 40s. However, this is a fine semi-scientific personal account of loosing the sense of smell that could be meaningful to those with a medical condition. That said, if you are a more patient person than I, give it a ... moreread.
review 2: The author of this book sounds like a really sweet person. I was compelled to keep reading because I wanted to see if she got better, so that says something positive about the book. Also I wanted to learn about the science of smell, since I lost my sense of smell too, and she did include some good info (though not as much as I would have liked).That being said, this book is horribly written. It is repetitive. The language is cheesy. The timeline is confusing - she jumps around from something happening to weeks or months into the future and then goes back to what happens directly after the initial event. Also she's kind of tone deaf when it comes to issues of class. There were so many casual mentions of traveling to Hawaii, France, Italy, Skiing. Living in New York with no real job. Maybe that's not distracting to some people, but to me it was really obnoxious. I think that also contributed to my feeling that she came off as ungrateful. Most people don't get their sense of smell back. She gets hers back and still keeps whining about it. She can taste but keeps freaking out about whether she can taste all the subtleties. Meanwhile her boyfriend is in Afghanistan and might die, and hardly any of the other people she meets get their sense of smell back. I wanted to yell at her to stop whining for most of the book. less

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