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| One book, two beers, two menus, and one hand model. |
1) I read this book in April. I know I enjoyed it, I know it moved me, I know I thought it was a stunningly crafted book, and I know I honestly can't quite remember much of my other thoughts about it, a fact exacerbated by confession number two.
2) I read it in the midst of training for a half marathon, which meant I had no desire to stand and cook anything after running for two hours. I also knew that this book was sufficiently depressing so as to not want to make any sort of cheeky, cute, or quirky German sounding dish. SO I CHEATED. I treated my fellow book clubber, aka, the one and only PopTart, to some good old fashioned German-style tidbits and brewskis at Jacob Wirth's, a Euro-pub that has been a Boston establishment since 1868. Fun fact: my grandfather, who worked in a POW camp for German soldiers in New Hampshire somewhere, used to frequent Jacob Wirth's during his med school days. But I digress. I normally have pretty good recall for conversations and the interesting tidbits that surface. However, someone mismapped her training run the morning of book club, which wound up being a full half instead of the scheduled training ten miles. This mean that one beer became the equivalent of many, despite the brats and schnitzel. Consequently, the conversation details are...fuzzy. Self high-five.
3) While I'm baring my soul, I'll also take the opportunity to confess something truly naughty: I gave up on Moby Dick for July without even looking at it, and I don't even feel bad about it in the slightest. I've read a ton of stuff I enjoyed, instead of slogging through one million pages of a crazy dude chasing a whale that obvi doesn't want to be caught because he's heard of the term blubber, and who can blame him? In short, it was an informed decision to break my New Years Resolve!
Confession time over. I will now attempt to briefly summarize the few things I remember about Slaughterhouse-Five, but will leave the actual summary to others, because hello, there are nothing BUT summaries of this book all over the internet (here is one, here is another, here is one for you high school and college cheaters out there). Reflections, followed by food all the way at the bottom:
