Books by Kate Christensen, Kate Christensen

3. Kate Christensen, Blue Plate Special: An Autobiography of My Appetites .  More a memoir than a food memoir (which is how it is being marketed), the subtitle is thus better than the title.  This is an excellent example of the “read smart books by people who are totally unlike you” principle.  I finished it in one sitting, and it takes a place with The Great Man as one of my two favorite Christensen books.

I saw this and thought I should buy the book — Kate Christensen’s novel The Great Man — just because I liked the cover.  As an experiment, I deliberately did not scan the contents or read the blurbs on the back.  The title isn’t very descriptive either.  I then bought the book.