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"You never really know what's going on with your ceiling until you just give up and lie down on your floor."
That is just one of the quotable phrases from this wonderful book. In fact, it's the first book I've read this year that I really loved. I knew I would enjoy it, because I read Julie & Romeo by the same author last year, and it was great, too. But I wasn't prepared to find a character that I actually had quite a bit in common with. Ruth, the lovely main character, has a husband who just got laid off and is trying to find himself, she plays the piano, and she loves to bake cakes. (I don't bake cakes very often, however, for the sheer reason that I would eat it all, and that's not good.) The other characters in the book are just that - characters! I hardly went more than a couple of pages without chuckling at something Ruth's mother or father said or did. They are priceless.
As a big plus, at the end of the novel there are 12 recipes to the mind-numbingly drool-producing cakes that the author mentions throughout the book. Almond Apricot Pound Cake with Amaretto... Sweet Potato Bundt Cake with Rum-Plumped Raisins and a Spiked Sugar Glaze... Somebody call the Weight Watcher police!
That is just one of the quotable phrases from this wonderful book. In fact, it's the first book I've read this year that I really loved. I knew I would enjoy it, because I read Julie & Romeo by the same author last year, and it was great, too. But I wasn't prepared to find a character that I actually had quite a bit in common with. Ruth, the lovely main character, has a husband who just got laid off and is trying to find himself, she plays the piano, and she loves to bake cakes. (I don't bake cakes very often, however, for the sheer reason that I would eat it all, and that's not good.) The other characters in the book are just that - characters! I hardly went more than a couple of pages without chuckling at something Ruth's mother or father said or did. They are priceless.
As a big plus, at the end of the novel there are 12 recipes to the mind-numbingly drool-producing cakes that the author mentions throughout the book. Almond Apricot Pound Cake with Amaretto... Sweet Potato Bundt Cake with Rum-Plumped Raisins and a Spiked Sugar Glaze... Somebody call the Weight Watcher police!
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