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3.62 AVERAGE
As someone who follows this blog I found it cute. I'm not sure what I would have thought of it if I was not already familiar with the story and people involved.
Well, when I started this I decided I had had ENOUGH of blogs-turned-into-books. The writing was overwrought, choppy, the writer impossibly self-involved. After my last experience, I decided Never Again. However, I did end up finding some of this pretty funny and interesting. Drummond is at her best when she makes fun of herself a little--there WERE some laugh-out-loud moments and I ended up at least liking parts of it.
But not enough to read any more blog-books. Never Again. Taking all I don't like about the blogosphere and poking it into book covers does not make it literature.
But not enough to read any more blog-books. Never Again. Taking all I don't like about the blogosphere and poking it into book covers does not make it literature.
funny
reflective
medium-paced
I read this book years ago and loved it. Now I’m in my fictional cowboy romance era and remembered their love story! It’s totally something I would read about in my fictional books and I remembered how much I loved this when I read it !
I loved this! It's like sitting and listening to her, her voice just shines right through the story
Interesting story of how your life can change by making one decision (hers, to meet her friends at a bar one night). But she writes in an over-flowery way. A quick read.
I read most of this book on the website, but re-reading it once i got the book was just as fun. There are some intense moments and some laugh-out-loud moments...and it was a very quick read for me!
Like many people, I've followed Ree Drummond on her blog, The Pioneer Woman. She's hysterically funny and I enjoy many of her anecdotes and recipes. This story was originally published in installments on her blog and I read it then and found it entertaining. As a book, however, it falls a little bit short.
Ree is head over heels in love with her husband and I love that she is honest about it. It's incredibly refreshing in these days when so many place little value on marriage and fidelity. She chronicles the story of how she and Marlboro Man met, courted and married and all the little ups and downs in between. It's romantic and funny and surprisingly clean.
It's also heavy on the cheesy, Harlequin-esque heaving bosoms-type romance. At times it reads like a teenager's diary, rather than a story of a twenty-something woman. We get a lot of weak knees, strong biceps and heavy sighs. Marlboro Man is absolutely perfect with no flaws whatsoever and a bit too good to be true.
I think it could have used some better editing and I expected it to have been a little more fleshed out. I also think having both of their accounts, rather than just Ree's first-person perspective would make this a richer story. But still, it's an honest, funny and forthright account of the love story of a well-known and well-loved blogger. Fans of The Pioneer Woman will love it. Others will find it a light, sweet escape.
Ree is head over heels in love with her husband and I love that she is honest about it. It's incredibly refreshing in these days when so many place little value on marriage and fidelity. She chronicles the story of how she and Marlboro Man met, courted and married and all the little ups and downs in between. It's romantic and funny and surprisingly clean.
It's also heavy on the cheesy, Harlequin-esque heaving bosoms-type romance. At times it reads like a teenager's diary, rather than a story of a twenty-something woman. We get a lot of weak knees, strong biceps and heavy sighs. Marlboro Man is absolutely perfect with no flaws whatsoever and a bit too good to be true.
I think it could have used some better editing and I expected it to have been a little more fleshed out. I also think having both of their accounts, rather than just Ree's first-person perspective would make this a richer story. But still, it's an honest, funny and forthright account of the love story of a well-known and well-loved blogger. Fans of The Pioneer Woman will love it. Others will find it a light, sweet escape.
I liked it overall, read more like a novel than a memoir. Her story is one to be shared! :)