lemon cake

while i love to eat it (yum.... lemon cake.....) i am endeavoring now to read it.  with knitting and quilting and all the cooking and baking (yum, lemon cake) i do, reading has sort of taken a backseat in the hobby department.  with so many hobbies that produce, i find it hard to sit down and take part in a hobby that enriches only me.  no baby booties to give as gifts? no wedding gifts? nothing to give or make? while reading is lovely, it seems so selfish. a lover of books, i never thought i'd say that. but having learned all these new crafts and skills, it seems silly to waste away hours reading when i could be usefully committing to a quilt or a patchwork pillow. anyway, i'm deciding this summer is the summer of me. eff you!  its time for me! well, not entirely.... i'm just commiting to reading ONE book. 

this is it:

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since i havent read it yet, here is a copy and pasted from publisher's weekly.

Taking her very personal brand of pessimistic magical realism to new heights (or depths), Bender's second novel (following An Invisible Sign of My Own) careens splendidly through an obstacle course of pathological, fantastical neuroses. Bender's narrator is young, needy Rose Edelstein, who can literally taste the emotions of whoever prepares her food, giving her unwanted insight into other people's secret emotional lives—including her mother's, whose lemon cake betrays a deep dissatisfaction. Rose's father and brother also possess odd gifts, the implications of which Bender explores with a loving and detailed eye while following Rose from third grade through adulthood. Bender has been called a fabulist, but emerges as more a spelunker of the human soul; carefully burrowing through her characters' layered disorders and abilities, Bender plumbs an emotionally crippled family with power and authenticity. Though Rose's gift can seem superfluous at times, and Bender's gustative insights don't have the sensual potency readers might crave, this coming-of-age story makes a bittersweet dish, brimming with a zesty, beguiling talent. (June)
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Its so funny that I just read this post today as I started reading a book for the first time in aggggges his morning. I used to be surgically attached to a book at all times but it seems to have taken a back seat to crafting for me too.