Mary L. Tabor, author of Woman Who Never Cooked (May 24-June 6)
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1ablachly
Please welcome Mary L. Tabor, author of Woman Who Never Cooked: Stories. Mary will be chatting on LibraryThing until June 6th.
2maryltabor
Hi,
If ablachly has a message, I can't see it. So I'll say hello as we begin: Hi, I'm here to talk about anything: My first book, The Woman Who Never Cooked, or even better, my blog that has become a book: (Re)Making Love: A Sex After Sixty Story, my memoir will be out June 15.
Hope to hear from you,
Mary
If ablachly has a message, I can't see it. So I'll say hello as we begin: Hi, I'm here to talk about anything: My first book, The Woman Who Never Cooked, or even better, my blog that has become a book: (Re)Making Love: A Sex After Sixty Story, my memoir will be out June 15.
Hope to hear from you,
Mary
3countrylife
Hi, Mary. I don't remember now where I even saw your book; I'm thinking it was probably an automatic recommendation through the LT system. But the minute I saw it, I thought of my mother, so immediately wishlisted it as a reminder to get it for her.
Mama (in her 70s) never tires of telling the story about an old neighbor who didn't like to cook, complained about it all the time til it drove her husband batty. He told her, "if you promise to cook good, healthy meals until the children graduate and move out, without another complaint, then after that you'll never have to cook again. So that's what she did. And she hasn't cooked again."
And then she sighs. It's like Mama's own personal fairy tale; she keeps hoping it'll come true for her, too.
But, actually, I don't even know what your book is ABOUT!
Mama (in her 70s) never tires of telling the story about an old neighbor who didn't like to cook, complained about it all the time til it drove her husband batty. He told her, "if you promise to cook good, healthy meals until the children graduate and move out, without another complaint, then after that you'll never have to cook again. So that's what she did. And she hasn't cooked again."
And then she sighs. It's like Mama's own personal fairy tale; she keeps hoping it'll come true for her, too.
But, actually, I don't even know what your book is ABOUT!
4maryltabor
Ah, what's The Woman Who Never Cooked about? The book uses food and adultery as metaphor for the grief I bore through my mother’s, my father’s and my sister’s illnesses and deaths. That doesn't sound like much fun. But I’m told it reads like a zany tour through a bunch of women’s lives. The book is fiction but I’m hidden inside the fiction and oddly or maybe not so odd, I included three memoir pieces that I don’t identify as such. But I will tell. And food is everywhere in the book as is cooking! I bet your Mama had some pretty good reasons for not cooking. The woman in the book who stops cooking did too.
I love fairy tales and write about them in my new book. Check out the first pre-publication review here: http://flashfiction.net/2010/05/flash-review-mary-tabor.php
I love fairy tales and write about them in my new book. Check out the first pre-publication review here: http://flashfiction.net/2010/05/flash-review-mary-tabor.php
