A review by emjay24
Love, Loss, and What We Ate: A Memoir by Padma Lakshmi

Did not finish book.

2.0

I used to love Top Chef, back when I was into reality shows. Over time, the concept got old to me, but I still always liked Padma, who always seemed like a cool cucumber while judging. What was her story? I’m always interested in memoirs but rarely get to them, so when I found an app that let me listen to free audio books, hers was the first to try. What’s better than a memoir read by the subject herself? I could not make it through the book. It may be just me and my short attention span. It may be me getting used to a new type of media. There were interesting parts to the book, most especially the part where she talks about her endometriosis, something a lot of people don’t know much about. I would have liked to have heard more about that, and maybe she did talk more about it at the end of the book I didn’t get to. Her life was not at all as I pictured it behind the scenes of those episodes! I never would have guessed everything that was going on. I enjoyed knowing everything in the book, I just could have used it in a more condensed fashion. I’m going to give it a 2 stars “OK” as I feel half of the reason I didn’t finish wasn’t the book or Padma’s fault, but my own.