!chemistry !bookworms !ifrickinglovescience they adapted it into a TV show with Brie Larson. Have any of you read this book? I know this show exist because my mom watched it and talked to me about it then I googled it, find out it was a book then I went /r/books and it looks like any fiction made in the year of our lord 2015+
https://old.reddit.com/r/books/comments/v5yjs6/lessons_in_chemistry_by_bonnie_garmus/
The plot seems to be: 1950s chemistry PhD student gets r*ped and stabs her male feminist. She gets expelled of her PhD program and becomes a girlboss in cooking with a cook show. The foid falls in love with another chemist and refuses his marriage proposals, the moid dies but she's pregnant. A few years later she was this hyper intelligent dog and a 5 year old kid who can read and quote Peepeeens and the main foid does neurodivergent quircky shit on her cooking show like referring to salt as sodium chloride or vinagre as acetic acid. She apparently also angrily tosses a food can into the trash because "it's filled with chemicals", lol sounds like TBBT level dialogue.
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I've seen a few episodes of the show, it's a bog standard girls rule boys drool type of show. Every single man is either incompetent or outright evil, aside from the dude who dies and the black father, and she is just a total anachronistic character espousing a feminist worldview that wouldn't even really exist until the 70s at the earliest
The absolute worst thing about the show though is that my girlfriend thought it was somehow based on a real person and not total fiction lmao
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The first time I started to realize someone I knew (woman) was completely full of shit was when she told me about this amazing book about this historical woman who I had already thought was interesting. She raved on and on, and said it was all about this woman and from her letters, made it sound really interesting.
I finally picked it up. 10,000% narrative fiction and thin as a magazine. Bright pink, clearly labelled fiction with a forward from the author that basically admitted she barely read anything about the person and just put together what she imagined this person's life was like from the factoids everybody knew and some girl power. And it was awfully written, about someone who was allegedly pretty clever and acerbic, the dialogue was like an 8th grader wrote it. Had been hearing about this book for a year and a half.
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