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marceelf 's review for:
Little Beach Street Bakery
by Jenny Colgan
http://www.anurseandabook.com/2015/01/the-little-beach-bakery-by-jenny-colgan.html
Everyone knows my favorite genre is chicklit (especially love English chicklit), but I had never read Jenny Colgan before. I'll be fixing that soon.
The Little Beach Street Bakery follows Polly's journey to a dirty, falling down apartment (the only one she can afford) after her husband puts them into bankruptcy pursuing his "dream'. He goes home to his mother to lick his wounds, and she heads to a downtrodden island that is barely reachable by car.
She has to work just to make the apartment clean enough to live in. She has to deal with an angry landlady who gets mad if she bakes in her own apartment. She has to deal with an injured bird. But she shows the strength that you really only see in women, that ability to keep trying no matter what each day brings.
The things I liked best about this book were the plot twists and turns, Polly doesn't make all of the right decisions, a few times she acts like a perfect jerk (yelling at an old woman, sleeping with a married man), but through it all, she is perfectly human.
The road to her happy ending was not smooth, and I actually wondered if it was going to happen, but like all the best chick lit books, true love prevailed! I don't know why I like this so much in my books, because I'm pretty cynical about these things in real life. Reading is my escape......
Everyone knows my favorite genre is chicklit (especially love English chicklit), but I had never read Jenny Colgan before. I'll be fixing that soon.
The Little Beach Street Bakery follows Polly's journey to a dirty, falling down apartment (the only one she can afford) after her husband puts them into bankruptcy pursuing his "dream'. He goes home to his mother to lick his wounds, and she heads to a downtrodden island that is barely reachable by car.
She has to work just to make the apartment clean enough to live in. She has to deal with an angry landlady who gets mad if she bakes in her own apartment. She has to deal with an injured bird. But she shows the strength that you really only see in women, that ability to keep trying no matter what each day brings.
The things I liked best about this book were the plot twists and turns, Polly doesn't make all of the right decisions, a few times she acts like a perfect jerk (yelling at an old woman, sleeping with a married man), but through it all, she is perfectly human.
The road to her happy ending was not smooth, and I actually wondered if it was going to happen, but like all the best chick lit books, true love prevailed! I don't know why I like this so much in my books, because I'm pretty cynical about these things in real life. Reading is my escape......