31. Little Indiscretions

Rating:  ☆1/2

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Author: Carmen Posadas

Genre: Fiction, Mystery, Food

Info: 320 pages, published July 12, 2005

Format:  Book

 

Summary 

Little Indiscretions, a whodunit and social satire, was a huge international bestseller and winner of Spain’s top literary prize. Nestor Chaffino, pastry chef to the rich and famous, is invited to cater a party in a villa on the Costa del Sol.  When Nestor is found frozen to death in a walk-in freezer with a notebook in his hand, the party guests gathered that evening are the natural suspects.  It turns out that just about everyone staying in the house had a motive to kill Nestor who had decided to publish incriminating information  about his hosts and their house guests.

 

Quotes

“He vowed that this little indiscretion would never be divulged, because coincidences, he thought, are like soufflés:  they come to nothing unless someone takes the trouble to beat, stir, or otherwise agitate the egg whites.”

“All things fade away in time. Any pain can be anesthetized by carefully covering it up with layer after layer of insignificant memories.”

“I will always love you until 8:30.  That was the prudent strategy she had used with her other lovers.  She had learned early on that the verb to love should be conjugated only in the present tense.”

“People think that men like me give money to buy forgiveness or out of vanity, when really it’s the winners pathetic tribute to the loser.  Look at me, we seem to be begging, I need you too.  I need you to accept me, to admire me, to love me.”

“Eight: the age of exploration, of ghosts and secret forays; the age at which a mystery lurks behind every curtain and every armoire opens into a magical world, which you may enter at any time, but who knows when you will return.”

My Take

I picked up Little Indiscretions at the Foothill Elementary Annual Used Book Sale for a dollar based on the superlatives on the cover (Oprah even recommended it!).  After wasting several hours of my life reading this uninteresting, tedious book, I want my money back (not really, I just want my time back).  You would do well to skip it.