Helpful Score: 2
I enjoyed this book - it was an easy read with an interesting topic - how a woman who loses 150 pounds loses her husband to another woman who is as fat as she used to be. How she rebuilds her life and learns to trust again, share her body with a new man at the age of 40 with all the stretch marks and loose hanging skin. Very entertaining and insightful.
Helpful Score: 1
This was a great book about a woman rebuilding her life after a life changing divorce and weight loss. It was well written and the characters give that feeling like their your friends too. While not the #1 book I've ever read, I enjoyed the ups and downs of Mels life.
I really enjoyed this book. The characters were strong and interesting and I genuinely cared what happened to them. I could have lived without the endless descriptions about what everyone was cooking or eating. I suppose if you are someone who really enjoys cooking that you would find lengthy descriptions of risotto fascinating. I didn't. I have noticed this author doing this in some of her other books too, adding endless details (poetry in one book) that often becomes very tedious. I also found the ending to be some what abrupt. I wish she had given these great characters a more substantial ending. All & all a pretty enjoyable read.
Enjoyable but have enjoyed her other books more.
I read this along time ago, it was the first book I read by Stacey Ballis. I really loved it. I thought I should finally do a review.
Stacey Ballis, is a foodie, that lives in Chicago, and is BFFs with Jen Lancaster another author.
I am not aware of SBs weight but she does write about weight and health that seems personal and real. Mel, our main character has lost 145 pounds for her health, and lost her husband to a woman who is also very large.
Mel starts cooking, and creating. She takes in, a lost 24 year old, with a past. Together they find themselves and find a business that will thrive.
I dont want to admit that this is one of my all time favorite books, it moved me. I realize there are Live changing pieces of literature out there, but this one was worth my time. I would read it again, and I dont read books twice.
Stacey Ballis, is a foodie, that lives in Chicago, and is BFFs with Jen Lancaster another author.
I am not aware of SBs weight but she does write about weight and health that seems personal and real. Mel, our main character has lost 145 pounds for her health, and lost her husband to a woman who is also very large.
Mel starts cooking, and creating. She takes in, a lost 24 year old, with a past. Together they find themselves and find a business that will thrive.
I dont want to admit that this is one of my all time favorite books, it moved me. I realize there are Live changing pieces of literature out there, but this one was worth my time. I would read it again, and I dont read books twice.
satisfying read. a woman who lost a lot of weight and started a health food business goes through a divorce and learns to live her life post divorce and with a new business. relationships with friends, new and old.
