Sure, some popular books are awful. But 'Lessons in Chemistry' isn't one of those.
It took me a while to get around to reading "Lessons in Chemistry" because I had a lot on my — oh, who am I kidding? It took me a while to read "Lessons in Chemistry" because I was being a snob.
Bonnie Garmus' novel, a romantic comedy but also quite a bit more than that, has been on bestseller lists for more than a year. For most of those 60 weeks and counting, I found an excuse not to read it. When I got around to it (thanks to my sister, who lent me her copy), I loved the tale of a female scientist who, ignored in her field in the 1960s, becomes the star of a chemistry-based cooking show. I also wondered what took me so long.
