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Sazerac + The Restaurant Critic's Wife for Foodie Reads 2016

While April was a ridiculously unproductive month for me in regards to the  Foodie Reads 2016 Challenge , I have carved out full afternoons to read this month. I had started The Restaurant Critic's Wife by Elizabeth LaBan* earlier this week. But, this afternoon, I curled up under a blanket - while Jake worked on the 8th grade graduation video and the boys did homework - and read the rest of it. I love losing myself in the pages of an entertaining read. On the Page... I had initially thought this novel would be a breezy read about a series of restaurant reviews. It was much more than that. Lila is the restaurant critic's wife and they have recently relocated from New Orleans to Philadelphia. Sam, her restaurant critic husband, is obsessed with anonymity and wants her to stay out of the public's eye. That means he doesn't want he to socialize with her friend from college who has recently opened a restaurant; he doesn't even want her to get to know their new n...