If nothing else, it will make you create your own Dinner List
The Dinner List is a simple summer beach read about a woman, Sabrina, who has her real-life dinner with those “five people, living or dead” you would invite to dinner. Interspersed with the five hours she spends with her absent father, her best friend, her mentor, her long-time on and off partner, and Audrey Hepburn, is the account of her on-and-off relationship with Tobias. I found Sabrina interesting, and was curious about her relationship with a slightly selfish but charming and passionate artist. It made me finish the book quite quickly (and at around 275 pages it isn’t a huge hill to climb), but the ending definitely stumbled.
The whole plot was centered around love and specifically the relationship of Sabrina and Tobias, but the ending chapter takes a sharp turn somewhere it was not pointing to throughout and left me feeling some whiplash. And then wanting of a new ending I would never get.
The conversation at the central dinner at times felt larger than this book, and some really brilliant moments between these characters blossom. And since the dinner was clearly all fantasy, any out there or too-blunt conversations could still be consumed and appreciated with little eye-rolling.
More than anything, it made me think about and create my own Dinner List.
The whole plot was centered around love and specifically the relationship of Sabrina and Tobias, but the ending chapter takes a sharp turn somewhere it was not pointing to throughout and left me feeling some whiplash. And then wanting of a new ending I would never get.
The conversation at the central dinner at times felt larger than this book, and some really brilliant moments between these characters blossom. And since the dinner was clearly all fantasy, any out there or too-blunt conversations could still be consumed and appreciated with little eye-rolling.
More than anything, it made me think about and create my own Dinner List.