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Summary: Funny, Heartwarming, and Inspiring!
Review: I liked this book a lot. It is well written, honest, wry and off-the-wall in all the right proportions. It is written with real (and tangible) emotion. A friend gave me this book while I was sick. I was in love (and engaged) at the time. Five months later, after having been painfully dumped, I picked it up and read it. I laughed, cried, and nodded in agreement. I was grateful my (ex-) boyfriend wasn't the creep Debby Bull's was. My heart was still broken after reading the book, but I knew I was going to be all right.
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Summary: rings a bell
Review: I've been in her shoes, and i know how it feels to search for peace. She does a great, amusing job describing her search. I did not like the ending all that much (too predictable). On another note, i am sure few are going to go to the store and buy a book on canning, yet this book has perfectly good recipes that one can follow. Canning, a lost art, now recovered thanks to DB
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Summary: A Recipe for Mending
Review: Simply stated, one of the best books for healing and growth (and humor) I've ever read...well, to be specific, I've ever read 5 times! It's a simple read, yet keeps your eyes glued to its pages; its voice strikes you right to your core and makes you wonder if it wasn't written solely for you! I've loaned it to friends a million times over, and it's never been received with anything less than pure excitement, relief, pleasure, and appreciation. Great writing, great book, great lessons. It's both practical and spiritual, humorous and poignant, insightful and memorable. It's a book you won't soon forget.
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Summary: it's like a little post-relationship Bible
Review: Since almost all of my good girl friends (including myself) have gone through nasty breakups lately, I have become much like the Gideons in that I have practically resorted to buying a case full of these fabulous books and carrying them around in my trunk, distributing them to my poor, heartbroken friends. It is the perfect thing to read when you're in that post-breakup stay-in-bed-in-your-pyjamas-and-eat-ice-cream stage. Beautiful, beautiful work. If all you have to complain about this book is that you didn't learn how to properly can, you're missing the point. Pay the extra 5 bucks and spring for the lovely hardcover -- it's worth it. I cannot say enough wonderful things about this scrumptious, funny, simple little insightful jewel! Mwah!
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Summary: A gorgeous, gorgeous book
Review: This little book offers so much: beautiful packaging of the hardcover (worth the extra dollars), punchy writing, wry sense of humor and canning recipes even! I love this book. It's the cutest-looking book I own. I wasn't going through heartbreak when I read it, but if I was, it would have given me a lift. Support this wonderful writer, and buy her book.Barbara DeMarco Barrett, writer and host of "Writers on Writing"
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