{"id":20406,"date":"2023-07-04T08:38:40","date_gmt":"2023-07-04T14:38:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/?p=20406"},"modified":"2023-07-04T08:38:40","modified_gmt":"2023-07-04T14:38:40","slug":"book-30-of-52-lessons-in-chemistry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2023\/07\/book-30-of-52-lessons-in-chemistry\/","title":{"rendered":"Book 30 (of 52) &#8211; Lessons In Chemistry"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_20407\" style=\"width: 385px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/lessonsinchemistry.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-20407\" class=\"size-full wp-image-20407\" src=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/lessonsinchemistry.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"375\" height=\"573\" srcset=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/lessonsinchemistry.jpg 375w, http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/lessonsinchemistry-196x300.jpg 196w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 375px) 100vw, 375px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-20407\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lessons in Chemistry &#8211; Bonnie Garmus<\/p><\/div>\n<p>A headstrong woman, with a masters in chemistry, finds it hard to be taken seriously in the world of science in the 1950s.\u00a0 When her life partner dies unexpectedly, she finds herself alone, pregnant, and jobless.\u00a0 While trying to find a new path, she unexpectedly finds herself on television, teaching cooking through chemistry, and becomes something of a celebrity.\u00a0 Meanwhile, her daughter and neighbor start to bring together a found family to replace the one she never had.<\/p>\n<p>Bonnie Garmus&#8217; debut novel, <em>Lessons in Chemistry<\/em>, won the 2022 Goodreads Choice Award for Best Debut Novel and was a nominee for Best Historical Fiction, which explains how it would up on my list of books to read.\u00a0 I&#8217;ll confess that this really wasn&#8217;t my type of book, as I kept waiting for something to happen, but it just told a story of how women were treated by society in the not-so-distant past.\u00a0 An adaptation for Apple TV+ is due this fall, with Brie Larson taking on the role of Elizabeth Zott, which I think will be a better medium for this particular tale.\u00a0 At least for me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A headstrong woman, with a masters in chemistry, finds it hard to be taken seriously in the world of science in the 1950s.\u00a0 When her life partner dies unexpectedly, she finds herself alone, pregnant, and jobless.\u00a0 While trying to find a new path, she unexpectedly finds herself on television, teaching cooking through chemistry, and becomes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[9953,10703,5289,9295,10702],"class_list":["post-20406","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-39","tag-apple-tv","tag-bonnie-garmus","tag-brie-larson","tag-goodreads-choice-awards","tag-lessons-in-chemistry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20406","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20406"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20406\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20408,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20406\/revisions\/20408"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}