{"id":19486,"date":"2021-12-30T08:07:34","date_gmt":"2021-12-30T13:07:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/?p=19486"},"modified":"2022-09-30T09:46:54","modified_gmt":"2022-09-30T13:46:54","slug":"aunty-lees-delights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/19486","title":{"rendered":"Aunty Lee’s Delights"},"content":{"rendered":"

Aunty Lee’s Delights<\/a><\/em> (2013) Ovidia Yu (Singaporean Mystery)<\/p>\n

\"Aunty<\/a>After Rosie “Aunty” Lee became a wealthy widow, instead of shopping and gossiping, she opened a cafe where she could cook and gossip.<\/p>\n

During her step-son’s wine tasting dinner the discussion is on a body discovered on the beach that morning. But no one except Aunty Lee seems suspicious that one of the guests doesn’t show up.<\/p>\n

This book is as much a character study as it is a murder mystery, such as how Aunty Lee’s step-daughter-in-law’s personality might shape events.<\/p>\n

Mrs. Selina Lee had never forgiven her late father-in-law for interrupting her Italian honeymoon by dying.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I really didn’t like reading about Selina.<\/p>\n

Mark insisted on seeing her as unforgiving, said that she held on to grudges. Of course Selina had argued him down and made him take it back.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

What I did like very much was all the cooking and food.<\/p>\n

What good were recipes that gave you pounds and ounces\u2014 or worse, grams and liters\u2014 when how much a dish required depended on the quality and age of your ingredients?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

In her view, anything cooked with local ingredients was local food.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And how Aunty Lee combines her knowledge of food and people.<\/p>\n

\u201cMaybe you\u2019ll just give me a hand in the kitchen?\u201d Aunty Lee had read her visitors well. Lucy Cunningham rose to join her immediately. <\/p>\n

Carla said, \u201cI wouldn\u2019t be any use to you,\u201d and the two men assumed her words were not meant for them.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I also liked this view of Westerners and Western culture from Singapore.<\/p>\n

(A)ge was so difficult to tell with Caucasians. They liked to sit in the sun and make their skin look older.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I think I wasn’t quite in the mood for this book. I enjoyed it, but I kept getting distracted by things, such as not knowing the book was published in 2014. Some stories are timeless, others are set in a specific time, and this was the latter, especially when it came to technology and laws and social mores.<\/p>\n

So I’ll read this again later, and then read the next books.<\/p>\n

Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks
\nRating: 7\/10<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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