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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. Lessons in Chemistry is a timely lesson in dealing with the indignation of injustice. Through Elizabeth’s eccentric story—where half the time you’re incensed on her behalf as a female scientist in the 1950s and ‘60s and the other half you’re laughing at the dark, deadpan humor—we learn how to deal with broken systems without becoming broken victims. It’s really a beautiful, zany story about life: challenge and change and courage and chemistry. This book is everything. Reading it felt like an amalgamation of watching a Wes Anderson film and reading Fredrik Backman’s “Anxious People,” while also being completely original and organic. I laughed; I cried; I felt a gamut of emotions: caustic ire, sorrow, protectiveness, joy, hope. It’s all here—all the properties needed for the best kind of chemical reaction: a perfect read. Here’s just a sampling of what I loved: Read on audio. A very popular book that was getting all the buzz in the last year, as well as a series on Apple. Set in the late 50's, Elizabeth Zott is a highly intelligent woman, who has to deal with the misogyny of the times. She's expelled from a doctoral program because she was a victim of assault by her advisor, she gets a lab tech job, but when her famous chemist boyfriend passes away, she's fired as being because she's going to be an unwed mother. Through circumstances she becomes a famous host of a cooking show, despite all the push backs of her male superiors. And in the end, because it makes perfect sense 😁, she leaves her cooking show to go back triumphantly to her life as a research chemist and all is figuratively right with the world. A very good read. This is an historical fiction set in the 1950s and 1960s by American author Bonnie Garmus. It is a quirky feminist story featuring scientist Elizabeth Zott who despite her brilliance struggles to make her way in a man’s world. I enjoyed the geeky romance with fellow scientist Calvin Evans and then the parts narrated by their adorable and worldly-wise dog Six-thirty. When her career in science is sabotaged by creepy misogynist bosses, Elizabeth is forced to accept a job as a television cooking show host. The only problem is she and the producers have vastly different ideas about what that entails. The show had envisioned a feminine cooking hour catering to their idea of stereotypical 1950s housewives. Elizabeth Zott sees it very differently. She is a scientist; to her cooking is merely chemistry and she sees no reason at all that housewives would not wish to further their knowledge of science. It turns out she is right and the show is a runaway success despite the power-plays and attempts at control by the patriarchy. This was a light enjoyable read for me. There were moments of humour, there were also a few scenes dealing with sexual assault, in keeping with the theme of feminism and misogyny. Her daughter seemed unrealistically old for her age and things ended very neatly, but this was an entertaining story and the audio narration by Miranda Raison was well done. 4stars sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
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HTML: Nmero 1 en las listas de The New York Times y The Sunday Times Mejor libro del ao segn The Guardian, The Times, The Sunday Times, Times Literary Supplement, Oprah Daily, Newsweek, Mail on Sunday, The New York Times The Washington Post y NPR. Ganador del Goodreads Choice Award Descubre a la novela que ha encandilado a los lectores de todo el mundo! Elizabeth Zott es madre soltera y estrella a su pesar del programa de cocina de televisin ms seguido de Estados Unidos. El enfoque inusual de Elizabeth para cocinar, combinar una cucharada de cido actico con una pizca de cloruro de sodio, resulta revolucionario. Sin embargo, a medida que su xito aumenta lo hacen tambin sus enemigos, porque Elizabeth no slo est enseando a las mujeres a cocinar sino tambin desafindolas a alterar el orden establecido. Lecciones de qumica es una novela original y adictiva que desentraa de manera inteligente y entretenida la espinosa cuestin de la igualdad de gnero y la necesidad de ser uno mismo. Reseas: Ingenioso, hilarante por momentos, vehemente, surrealista en ocasiones. El Trampa 22 del temprano feminismo. Stephen King Se llama tenacidad [y] se llama xito: Lecciones de qumica (Salamandra) se ha convertido en fenmeno en muchos pases y pronto ser una serie de televisin. Berna Gonzlez Harbour, El Pas Pocas veces ocurre que un debut cause tanto furor. Lara Gmez Ruiz, La Vanguardia Una historia palpitante y original sobre la esperanza y la fidelidad a uno mismo. Para rerse a carcajadas, y llena de vida, generosidad y valenta. De vez en cuando aparece una primera novela en medio de una rfaga de exageraciones y grandes acuerdos televisivos, y antes del primer captulo lanzas un puo al aire porque, por una vez, todo est completamente justificado. Una historia pulida, divertida y que invita a la reflexin. Escrita con tan buen pulso narrativo y frases tan elegantes que cuesta creer que se trate de un debut. Una trama muy bien hilvanada, dilogos vibrantes e irnico sentido del humor. Una historia absorbente con villanos odiosos y tipos adorables. Una escritura brillante que es una bocanada de aire fresco. Sunday Express Una voz firme, una herona inolvidable e historias de amor verosmiles. [...]Garmus logra encantar al lector creando un conjunto indeleble de personajes obstinados e idiosincrsicos. Original y refrescante, Elizabeth Zott es uno de esos personajes singulares e imborrables que tanto cuesta hallar en la ficcin. [...] Una novela ingeniosay oscura, que es un recordatorio de cunto tiene que cambiar el mundo en aras de la verdadera igualdad. Nunca conocers a un personaje ms inquebrantable que Elizabeth Zott. Un libro nico con grandes lecciones de vida. Un triunfo. Una fbula feminista triunfadora. The Telegraph Una serie de hilos trenzados de forma maravillosa. [...] Un excelente experimento, peculiar y alentador. Uno de los libros ms buscados y comentados del ao. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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I had some difficulty warming to Elizabeth as I found her to be too obtuse and stubborn in how she presented herself and perhaps too exceptional to be relatable. In her constant bid to use the power of science to bring about changes she had the tendency to plow over everyone. The story became quite repetitive and I was constantly hoping to see the discrimination and sexual abuse addressed a little more seriously than it was.
On the other hand, Lessons in Chemistry is very witty and intelligent. It paints an interesting picture of the early days of affirmative action when societal norms desperately needed an overhaul. The author also wisely supplies some very endearing secondary characters like Calvin, Harriet, Madeline and especially the lovable dog, Six-Thirty. So mixed reaction but overall an absorbing and interesting read. ( )