Coming to My Senses (Waters) - Book Reviews

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Casually and conversationally, the book relates [Waters's] education as a sensualist. The book is a prequel, the story before the story everybody knows, an account of what she was doing before she was bitten by a radioactive spider and began to exhibit strange new powers.
Pete Wells - New York Times Book Review


(Starred review.) [An] intimate and colorful memoir.… Readers will be charmed by Waters’s … anecdotes and her descriptions of friends and customers … [which] bring the era and the restaurant to the mind’s eye in vibrant detail.
Publishers Weekly


(Starred review.) The author writes vividly about the major influences in her life…, the artistic circle of friends she surrounded herself with in Berkeley, and the roles they played in her life and business.… An engaging and entertaining memoir. —Phillip Oliver, formerly with Univ. of North Alabama, Florence
Library Journal


[Waters] does an artful job of showing how even the most apparently unrelated experiences helped lead her to her profession. She is also quite frank about her failures; her relationships…. An almost charmed restaurant life that exhales the sweet aromas of honesty and self-awareness.
Kirkus Reviews