Coffee by Dinah LenneyMy rating: 3 of 5 stars
upon finishing reading (Aug.19.2020): learned more about the author and her family than about coffee, yet well written....more thoughts soon.
This book is one in a series called “Object Lessons” where the focus is on one object, this book is clearly enough about coffee. I love the idea of this series, and I have a few of the books checked out from the library, yet this is the first one I’ve actually read. I thought it would be more focused on coffee but instead it was more a meandering with the author’s life.
After reading the book I found that is actually within the scope of the series, so it was my misunderstanding. Okay, but still I did want a bit more about coffee than I did get here. I understand it isn’t to be fully comprehensive, there are other books for that. But even within the pages, Lenney tells us early on about a survey she sent out to people about coffee for writing this book but it seems to drop off early on and we didn’t get much out of that. It felt odd to bring it up so thoroughly yet not discuss it in details.
In any case the book is enjoyable, the writing decent. I liked the coffee diaries entries, and overall the light tone of the book.
Book rating: 3.5 stars
Thanks to Bloomsbury Academic and NetGalley for an uncorrected electronic advance review copy of this book.
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