This could be really nice for, say, English classes, where you could easily write up a note for the end of every chapter and share it with your teacher.
My recipe this week could have been for scones, for fish and chips (which the characters eat in almost every chapter), for sherry-laced Christmas trifle or for a Sunday roast.
Volk leans heavily on menu metaphors (wall-to-wall carpeting is "iceberg green"; "grapefruit was the medicine of food"), and she names virtually every chapter for a dish, yet her story is about much more than food.
Taro Nagae, a historian at the National Institute of Defense Studies, who edited the museum's displays, had the same explanation for every uncomfortable chapter passed under silence, from sex slaves to Japan's infamous biological warfare outfit, Unit 731.
So, if you are writing a book, allow yourself a glass of wine for every completed chapter – and perhaps a bottle of champagne when you reach that crucial half-way point.
The thriller is a contrived, implausible and needlessly baroque melodrama, which reads as if it were written for serial publication, with nearly every chapter ending on a hokey cliffhanger and portentous foreshadowings of what fresh hell is yet to come.
(Goodwin's preface thanks Godoff "for her insightful suggestions on every chapter").. Obviously, editors at commercial publishing houses cannot be expected to detect these kinds of attribution problems during the editing process.
