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The Pioneer Woman: Black Heels to Tractor Wheels

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"New York Times"-bestselling author and accidental ranch wife Drummond sharesher real-life storybook romance, set on a historic Oklahoma cattle ranch.

Hardcover, 341 pages

Published February 1st 2011 by William Morrow (first published January 1st 2011)

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Sep 27, 2011 Annette rated it 3 of 5 stars

i just recently discovered thepioneerwoman.com website/blog. so i was really interested in how ree drummond got her "city" self onto this ranch in the middle of nowhere! i HAD to read this book! ;)

the book is very "real". she writes about the feelings & the happenings & the unexpected crap that everyone goes through in their lives, and about how you deal with it or how you don't...
she had a lot of things going on in her life, and she got a lot of "stuff dumped on her" in a short amount o...more

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Dec 17, 2011 Ragan rated it 1 of 5 stars

I wish there was an option for negative stars as this book definitely does not deserve a single star. It was beyond horrible. She writes like a 12 year old girl and comes off as a self absorbed prima donna. She runs over her dog without any grief, her parents’ divorce (when she was 27) and it’s all about her. Then the fact that she is so overly dramatic about everything. She's sick the first day of her honeymoon and its oh my husband is going to leave me and fly back to the US. It was just exhau...more

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Mar 03, 2011 Christy rated it 1 of 5 stars

Shelves: 2011, cooking, kindle, memoir

Once again more proof that bloggers aren't necessarily book authors. Blog reading is free so one can be generous with the quality of writing and storytelling. Ree's problem, is not that she can't write, but like many bloggers-turned-authors, is that she didn't write book but strung blog posts together and added some new material. The last third of BHtTW is the best written section, most likely because wasn't originally a series of blog posts, polished up and presented between a book binding.

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Sep 25, 2011 Lizzie rated it 5 of 5 stars

Shelves: 2012-reading-challenge-list

My first library book on my Kindle!! Love Ree!

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Sep 16, 2012 Valerie Waters rated it 2 of 5 stars

wow.This book should have been about half as long as it was. I felt like the author went off on WAY too many tangents. Every thought she had there was a two or three page tangent....a bit excessive. Then referring to the guy as the Marlboro Man through THE WHOLE BOOK!!! Come on! At first I thought she didn't know his name but after they dated for months and she still called him the MM it was so lame. Not cute. Not funny. LAME!!! I really liked MM (see I can't even type the name I'm so tired of i...more

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Jun 01, 2011 krisabelle rated it 2 of 5 stars

Shelves: pal-recommended, kindle, 2011, src-summer-2011, memoir

This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers. To view it, click here. This book had potential, but it never really…took flight. I was annoyed with the author for spending an absolutely absurd amount of the book reiterating how in love she was with her cowboy, and zero percent of the book explaining why she and her siblings all turned on their mother after she made it known that she was going to divorce their father. All of the grown children seethed and hated their mother for this, but never once was it explained why. The author herself was living at home and want...more

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Apr 24, 2013 Scottsdale Public Library added it

Shelves: adult, biography, nonfiction

The real life love story of famous blogger, Ree Drummond (aka The Pioneer Woman), and her dashing cowboy, the Marlboro Man. The book is full of love, laughter, and tears as we read about how Ree meets her husband. Ree is witty and hilarious as she describes the many mishaps that happen during their courtship. A must read, especially for those familiar with her blog!

-Jennifer W.O.

“Black Heels to Tractor Wheels” is Ree Drummond’s memoir of falling in love with a real cowboy. Ree is literally swept...more

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Mar 06, 2012 Jenny rated it 5 of 5 stars

This was the perfect diversion to normal life. I loved it. I love her and I love Marlboro man. I can't wait for this to become a movie. Some of the reviews are harsh, so I do advise perusing her blog before reading the book to get who she is. Maybe you won't like it still, but I found her totally relatable, like I was sitting and listening to a good friend and wished I could have swapped stories of dating, courtship, embarrasing moments, and babies.....so read it and lets chat.

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Apr 14, 2011 Melany rated it 5 of 5 stars

Pretty much awesome. I think I might be considering a move to an area where I can roam around ranches in search of a cowboy :-) ...or maybe not. Not really my type, but then it wasn't the authors type until she got swept off her feet. I guess your whole world really can change in a series of moments.

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Apr 17, 2012 Angelc rated it 2 of 5 stars · review of another edition

My grandmother warned me not to read this one, and let that be a lesson to always listen to your grandma!

This book was just not something I'm interested in reading at all. I thought it was going to be a romance book based on the author's own true story. But instead of a romance-style story, the writing is entirely stream of consciousness, there is no plot or structure whatsoever.

There is too much brand name dropping and description of clothing, and what exactly are spiked boots, does anyone know...more

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Apr 16, 2013 Ginny Marie rated it 3 of 5 stars

Shelves: blogger-to-author

As a blogger myself, I was very curious to read this book by well-known blogger Ree Drummond. Since she is a known foodie and cookbook author, I enjoyed reading how the first two meals she made for Marlboro Man were a complete disaster! I understand why she chose to call her boyfriend/husband Marlboro Man during the whole book, but not writing about him with his real name (or at least a pseudonym) made the whole romance less personal.

She keeps referring to how she gave up moving to Chicago to be...more

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Jan 20, 2013 Rachel Crooks rated it 2 of 5 stars

A lot of romantic comedies are like this: the two protagonists meet in a cute way, hit it off, sparks fly, and then there is some inevitable betrayal/seperation, followed by a chase scene leading up to a happy ending. And then usually when it's over, and you are feeling the romantic feelings, you stop and think, "but how well did they even know each other?" That's about how I felt in reading this how-we-met story.

Halfway through the book, having read pages and pages about "Marlboro Man," as see...more

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Dec 31, 2012 Angie rated it 3 of 5 stars

actually 3.5 my aunt recommended this to me and i was surprised at how much i liked it being a love story and all. while starting the read i put two and two together and realized this gal has a blog, which i occasionally read a few cook books out there. also, she's tied into the food network somehow, but i don't have cable so i don't know anything about that bit. anyway, not only have i checked out her blog a time or ten, i've been using her pie crust recipe for the past year or so and i have to...more

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Dec 29, 2012 Molly rated it 2 of 5 stars

I got this as a gift awhile back and just now read it. Anyway, it's the story of Ree Drummond, the Pioneer Woman from the Food Network, and how she fell in love with her husband, who she refers to throughout the book as the Marlboro Man. The daughter of a physician, she grew up along a golf course in a town of 35,000 in Oklahoma; she then went away to California for college and stayed there for a few years afterwards. She came back to her hometown basically to avoid moving to San Francisco with...more I got this as a gift awhile back and just now read it. Anyway, it's the story of Ree Drummond, the Pioneer Woman from the Food Network, and how she fell in love with her husband, who she refers to throughout the book as the Marlboro Man. The daughter of a physician, she grew up along a golf course in a town of 35,000 in Oklahoma; she then went away to California for college and stayed there for a few years afterwards. She came back to her hometown basically to avoid moving to San Francisco with her longtime boyfriend with the intention of moving to Chicago. However, her plans were derailed when she met the Marlboro Man, an Oklahoma rancher; she decided not to move to Chicago and wound up marrying him and going to live with him on his ranch. This story is about her transition from city girl to country girl.

I didn't find Drummond to be that relatable of a narrator. For one thing, as illustrated by the fact that she moves to Oklahoma to avoid moving to San Francisco with her boyfriend and just hopes he will get the hint that she wants to break up by slowly cutting off contact with him for several months, she seems to be the type of person who doesn't really deal with her problems and just hopes they'll work themselves out. For another, she is the type of woman who, upon realizing she is in labor with her first child, gets up, showers, blow-dries and curls her hair, and puts on makeup before waking up her husband. For a third, she doesn't really reflect on what are fairly major life choices; she only vaguely talks about what she was planning to do in Chicago in the first place and really doesn't talk at all about why she decides to give up six years of vegetarianism almost immediately upon meeting the Marlboro Man, or why she was a vegetarian in the first place (I'm guessing it was because her boyfriend at the time was). She acts as if she was totally changing her life plan by marrying the Marlboro Man and going to live on the ranch, and while yes, this is something she clearly never planned or expected, I don't think she really knew what she wanted from life. She talks vaguely about helping her dad update the computer system at his medical practice while back in Oklahoma and vaguely about thinking about going to law school, but nothing that indicates she had serious career ambitions or even things she dreamed about doing when she was younger. Finally, she is very dramatic; any time things go a little wrong on the ranch, she says that she thought to herself, "I should have gone to Chicago." Really?

The anecdotes about ranch life were relatable to me, having grown up on a ranch myself; she really does seem to love the Marlboro Man, and he really does seem like a good guy; and there are some recipes in the back that I will almost certainly make (okay, I've already made a variation on one, substituting leftover Christmas turkey for chicken =)). I think I would like having one of her cookbooks. I just feel like her story had the potential to be both funnier and more meaningful.(less)

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Dec 21, 2012 Desiree rated it 1 of 5 stars

Shelves: non-fiction-other, romance

This book is ridiculous (understand folks - this is coming from a woman who's also read and enjoyed a book about a man that can TURN INTO A DRAGON, but mostly spends time shagging the snot out of the book's heroine in his human form. I didn't think novels got more ridiculous than that).

I got really sick of the author's self-centered nature. Everything that happens to her happens as though the world revolves around her and people need her permission to live their own lives if it's going to pop h...more

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Jul 26, 2012 nicole rated it 3 of 5 stars

Shelves: 2012

After the dense paragraphs of Helen Gurley Brown's biography, I wanted the literary equivalent of comfort food. I adore The Pioneer Woman and was already familiar with the rough outline of her great love affair through her blog. I liked the serial style of the storytelling, the way she allowed multiple entry points back into the story at the start of each chapter, as if you'd put the story down to enjoy one of her feasts and then picked it up while still in that heady carb coma. Everyone is alwa...more

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Jul 03, 2012 Christine rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: 2011-reads

The Pioneer Woman's newest book: Black Heels to Tractor Wheels: A Love Story. I read it in one sitting, not finishing until after midnight. It was a fun escape. It's a real life love story of a city girl, PW, who meets a cowboy, Marlboro Man, and they fall in love. It's a great story, even more so because I knew I was reading someone's true life experience with love, marriage, first pregnancy and adjusting to a whole new life. I laughed and cried right along with PW as she lived her life on the...more

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Apr 23, 2012 Joy rated it 4 of 5 stars

I saw this book for sale in the bookstore at the airport, and picked it up and read it on my (very long) flight that same day. I haven't read the Pioneer Woman's blog for very long, so all of this was very new to me although much of it has been posted there in the past. The book is simply the story of how she left California to return home to the Midwest, where she unexpectedly fell in love with a real-life cowboy. It's a lovely story, with plenty of honest emotion as Ree wrestles with the chang...more

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Apr 16, 2012 Santos rated it 4 of 5 stars Recommends it for: Romantics, Young hearts

Shelves: romance

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I became interested in the Pioneer Woman after my grandmother talked about this book and fed us (the visiting family) a couple of recipes courtesy Ree Drummond's cookbook. You should know, I love to cook. I love food and the culture around it, the smells and of course the tastes. I even like the dishes.. Sometimes. Ree Drummond has a kick ass website about food, photography, life in the country. However this story isn't really about food but about the romance that burns between one...more

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Mar 12, 2012 L. Worwood rated it 3 of 5 stars

Shelves: romance, humor

I find the cover downright embarrassing, but when my friend Lolene says it is a "breezy, fun read," .....let's just say that is exactly the kind of book I need in my life right now. What makes it so fun is that it is true. Like Lols, I had never heard of "Pioneer Woman" or of her cooking, and after finishing the book, I had to look up her blog, her recipes, etc. Ree Drummond is extremely likable--the kind of person you'd love to hang out with--preferably in HER kitchen where butter is her best f...more

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Mar 05, 2012 Kathleen (Kat) Smith rated it 5 of 5 stars

Shelves: adult-humor, chick-literature, non-fiction, personal-memoir

When Ree Drummond thought of her perfect life, she never imagined it would be the complete opposite of everything she would do and be. Living the life of a city girl in a home that bordered the golf course, her days consisted of country clubs, dancing, and socializing with her girls friends over shopping trips until the day she looked across the bar and saw the cowboy.

The complete opposite of all the previous men she had dated in the past and just at the time she was considering a move to Chicag...more When Ree Drummond thought of her perfect life, she never imagined it would be the complete opposite of everything she would do and be. Living the life of a city girl in a home that bordered the golf course, her days consisted of country clubs, dancing, and socializing with her girls friends over shopping trips until the day she looked across the bar and saw the cowboy.

The complete opposite of all the previous men she had dated in the past and just at the time she was considering a move to Chicago and terminating a long standing relationship, she met Marlboro Man. He was a handsome cowboy wearing cowboy boots, Wranglers and salt and peppered hair. She found herself captivated in so many ways and when she walked over to talk to him, her life would change forever.

The Pioneer Woman: Black Heels to Tractor Wheels by Ree Drummond is her personal story of the love story between her and her husband that she affectionately calls Marlboro Man. For those of you who have never heard of The Pioneer Woman, then you need to read this heart warming love story of life on a cattle ranch and all the horror stories that went hand in hand with winning over her heart.

Before I read this book, I knew Ree Drummond from her successful blog, The Pioneer Woman wear one will find anything from home schooling tips, to photographs of her life on the ranch, to the most mouth watering recipes anywhere in the world. But a world of caution, once you begin your journey, Ree will become your new best friend. She is a mix between Ethel Merman, Lucille Ball and a little spice from the South all mixed together for a perfect blend of fun loving lady underneath it all. As you read through her latest novel, you feel like your sitting with your friend over cinnamon rolls and coffee on her porch overlooking her cattle ranch as she tells it like it is, no holds barred, and that's what you will love. The same as her readers and fans from all over. She's a real down to earth lady with a heart of gold.

I received The Pioneer Woman: Black Heels to Tractor Wheels compliments of William Morrow, a division of Harper Collins Publishers for my honest review and just know that every woman that reads this will find a connection with Ree. The best part is that the book contains some of her infamous recipes that you can enjoy and fall in love with. This one rates 5 out of 5 stars in my opinion and for those of you that love a good romance with a whole lot of laughs along the way, then this is perfect for you. (less)

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Feb 18, 2012 Danielle rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Popular blogger, photographer and foodie Ree Drummond has seen and done it all it seems. From home schooling her kids to learning photography from the ground up to traveling more places than most will ever imagine. But what about the life before the blog? What about the time when Ree had made a “pit stop” back home before making her way to Chicago? And how exactly did she meet the marvelous Marlboro Man? All this and more rest within the pages of Ree’s tell-all memoir, Black Heels to Tractor Whe...more Popular blogger, photographer and foodie Ree Drummond has seen and done it all it seems. From home schooling her kids to learning photography from the ground up to traveling more places than most will ever imagine. But what about the life before the blog? What about the time when Ree had made a “pit stop” back home before making her way to Chicago? And how exactly did she meet the marvelous Marlboro Man? All this and more rest within the pages of Ree’s tell-all memoir, Black Heels to Tractor Wheels.

Is there anyone out there who has never heard of The Pioneer Woman? I’d be shocked to hear about it. Her blog regularly gets thousands of comments daily, yes…daily. When she posts a giveaway during the month of Christmas you can be guaranteed there will be multiple winners, prizes totally in the hundreds of dollars and suddenly those items appear on the wish lists of every person reading the post(s). Now you’d probably expect someone like this to be completely snarky, possibly rude even in person and potentially someone who appears as though she has it all. Well, that’s absolutely not the case and potentially why she’s so loved. A couple of years ago I had the privelege of meeting her on her tour for her cookbook, The Pioneer Woman Cooks, and she was as lovely as the combo of June Cleaver & Ethel Merman rolled into one. She chatted (of course about her love of Spanx), took pictures with and held every baby in the building resulting in a very late evening but she took it all in stride. It was an event to remember.

Now moving on! Her book Black Heels to Tractor Wheels was released last year in hardback, but just in time for Valentine’s Day this year it was released in paperback and I’m thrilled to have finally have read it. Her trademark humor and charm were in every page and for a fan I found it to be wonderful to hear more about her life after her blog entries of her and her husband, the Marlboro Man. I was surprised by how much I enjoyed reading her memoir possibly even more than I enjoy her blog. What continues to astound me is how much she’s able to accomplish in the span of a day. I only have two children, both of whom are under five, but I couldn’t imagine trying to homeschool, photograph, create new recipes, blog, work on the farm, exercise and more and more. She’s amazing and her memoir is yet another thing to add to her list of things she’s accomplished during a day.

Not only would I recommend The Pioneer Woman: Black Heels to Tractor Wheels to fans of Ree Drummond’s blog, but also to readers who enjoy a fabulous romance. Filled with her characteristic humor and range of emotions Ree tells the classic story of boy meets girl, but in this case the boy is a country cowboy and the girl is a city girl who’s life aspirations never included getting up early enough to beat the sun on a daily basis. This was a wonderful read as a fan of her site, one I’d recommend even to non-fans and I’d especially suggest it to fans of great chick lit!

Originally reviewed and copyrighted at my site Chick Lit Reviews and News.(less)

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Feb 06, 2012 Ellie Sorota rated it 2 of 5 stars

Shelves: read-fiction

In the world of not-so-trashy romance novels, Ree Drummond's story of courtship and first year of marriage to smokey "Marlborough Man", as he is called throughout the book, was a bit more dull than I expected. Famous for her blog, The Pioneer Woman, Drummond's cult following put this book in the top of the New York Time's bestseller list as soon as it debuted. Not that it's hard for mediocre books to end up on the NYT list (yet another Evanovich is on there now), but it did make me curious. Dis...more In the world of not-so-trashy romance novels, Ree Drummond's story of courtship and first year of marriage to smokey "Marlborough Man", as he is called throughout the book, was a bit more dull than I expected. Famous for her blog, The Pioneer Woman, Drummond's cult following put this book in the top of the New York Time's bestseller list as soon as it debuted. Not that it's hard for mediocre books to end up on the NYT list (yet another Evanovich is on there now), but it did make me curious. Disappointingly, the first half of the book was material I'd already read. Drummond self-published this story in serials on her blog. Having read the serials, I assumed the printed edition would be fleshed out and certainly heavily edited. Not so, not so. A problem with blog serials (rather than the print serials of say, Dickens), is the preponderance of words. Not confined to a column of a newspaper, or page of a magazine, the blogger has freedom to go on, and on, and on. (Every mediocre writer seems to think longer is best.) In this case, Drummond begins each chapter of Black Heels to Tractor Wheels with a review of the previous chapter. Helpful if you read the last serial four months ago, completely boring if you're curled up on the couch reading straight through. While her editors probably thought, "Why mess with a guaranteed bestseller," they could have helped the text be more worthy of it's place in a top ten if they'd edited the content flow - no summaries, and a dozen similes does not a paragraph make.
Despite it's general disappointment, the book does deliver a few steamy G-rated moments, to the delight of stay-at-homes everywhere who refuse to read less wholesome - straight to 3x6 - paperbacks. This is a book that reminds us that indeed, there is room between the 3x6 ripping bustiers and 19th c. brushing a finger while you pass a teacup kind of tension. Ree Drummond's honeymoon loving immediately followed by food poisoning wedges itself into that middle ground.(less)

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Jan 24, 2012 Carissa rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: adult, listened-to-audiobook

i listened to this on audiobook and it's read by the author. it was interesting to hear ree's real voice after reading her cooking blog for so long! her love story is quite amazing, but i have to say that it was disconcerting at the beginning to hear her talking about her ex-boyfriend "J" (which, when read aloud sounds an awful lot like my husband's name!) and comparing him (negatively) to Marlboro Man (her nickname for the man she falls in love with and marries in this book. and in real life, o...more

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Jan 24, 2012 Rebecca rated it 1 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: girlie-stuff, non-fiction, read-to-me-please, things-i-hate-to-admit-i-read, no

This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers. To view it, click here. I'm only in chapter 3 and already I've decided that this woman isn't a good person. So far, she's a wimp, a cheater and a dog killer (and as far as I can tell, she doesn't feel bad about any of it). And the way she writes for her stuttering, developmentally disabled brother is just uncool. (Not to mention she's the one reading the book on the CD - which means I get to listen to the stuttering voice she gives him) But maybe that's what real love does to you. I'm not sure. She'd better redeem hers...more

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Nov 12, 2011 Dawn rated it 3 of 5 stars

I picked this up mostly because I've followed her blog at The Pioneer Woman off and on for a while. Mostly the cooking section, because she uses real butter like a real person, and she taught me to make Quiche. You should go there. She has also strongly informed my own recipe blogging style.

Ree tells the story of how she went from life in LA to living with her husband on his cattle ranch, surprising everyone (including herself) along the way. It's a sweet little real life romance, and a romance...more

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Oct 04, 2011 Melissa rated it 2 of 5 stars

This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers. To view it, click here. The book is a memoir of Ree Drummond, big city girl swept away by a smoldering, handsome cowboy. I've never been a regular follower of her blog, but out of curiosity, I watched all her new TV shows on Food Network, She is obviously and understandably proud of her family and her life so out of curiosity, I picked up her memoir from the library.

Right off the bat, the flowery paper, page after page, got a bit...flowery. But it went with her writing - she's a VERY feminine woman. She likes pretty cl...more The book is a memoir of Ree Drummond, big city girl swept away by a smoldering, handsome cowboy. I've never been a regular follower of her blog, but out of curiosity, I watched all her new TV shows on Food Network, She is obviously and understandably proud of her family and her life so out of curiosity, I picked up her memoir from the library.

Right off the bat, the flowery paper, page after page, got a bit...flowery. But it went with her writing - she's a VERY feminine woman. She likes pretty clothes, shoes, makeup and as a young woman in her 20's, she's very concerned about her looks - again, comes with the territory. As the book went, the writing became excessive and detailed and just plain redundant very fast. She comes home to her parents' house from Los Angeles, and never seems to get a job and gets to stay there while aimlessly wondering (and wandering) if she's going to move on to her dream job(?) in Chicago. I couldn't really figure out what she was actually going to do once she got there. Then one magical night she meets "the Marlboro Man." (She never reveals his name; he is "the Marlboro Man" through the whole book! It got old the second time she used the pet name!) She meets him, talks to him for a few hours, never gives him her name, and they part ways. Several weeks later he magically calls her. Allrighty then.
SO they date and all she does every night is go to his house and eat dinner, watch movies and make out. She's writing in the sense of days, after several pages, only a two weeks have gone by. *Sigh. And in the midst of all this, she can't make up her mind if she's leaving or not, and never gets a job either. That really bothered me; no wonder past reviewers felt this memoir got so self-obsessed and exaggerated - she wasn't doing anything except hanging around her house and waiting for him to call her and then come pick her up or send her out gallavanting in the country to find his house some other out of the way location.
I don't doubt that she was swept off her feet by "the Marlboro Man." I don't doubt he's a gentleman and a great cowboy. I just have a hard time taking her seriously with all the over-the-top, flowery (not just the paper), extremely detailed narration of her romance. Not even halfway through I was getting tired of her indecisiveness about whatever was in Chicago and all the details about all their "dates" at his house. I finished the book out of sheer curiosity, honestly. I very much wish that the publisher would have quit with the flowery paper either just after the prologue or forward the first chapter. I also wish that she would have dropped the whole "Marlboro Man" deal after he magically called her back. He's got a name - make up a name if you want to protect him, but jeepers he has a NAME.
After finishing the book (and all six of her Food Network episodes), I still just have a hard time taking her seriously. (less)

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Sep 15, 2011 Joanne rated it 3 of 5 stars

Shelves: non-fiction

It's a True Love story, complete with flowers on the pages, so has a relatively high syrup factor. Drummond apparently started this book about how she met her husband (known as Marlboro Man in the book) on her regular blog, and the fandom was so great she turned it into a book.

I could do without all the breathless descriptions of how handsome MM is and how goofy / clumsy / citified she is in comparison. She doesn't do a very good job of explaining why MM would ever be interested in her, except t...more

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Sep 13, 2011 Rebecca rated it 5 of 5 stars

The only thing I didn't like about this book is that it ended too soon.
I'm at the "been married 13 years and trying to keep the passion while letting the kids go out into the world and learn hard lessons on their own" stage of life...so I'd have LOVED to hear the next chapters. I hope their is a sequel. (I have never read her blogs, it is not necessary to enjoy the book...but I might just read the blogs to see if I can get part of "the next chapter".)

I love that this story is TRUE. I love that s...more

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Aug 27, 2011 Relyn rated it 4 of 5 stars Recommends it for: women, cooks, bloggers

Recommended to Relyn by: Dandy

It's been an exhausting six weeks for Team Lawson. Even good things can wear you out, don't you know? We went from a 2 1/2 week road trip directly to back to school with less than 12 hours between them. After a crazy-busy week of meetings, bad news, lesson planning, classroom prepping, more meetings, and life-altering changes, school started. If you want to know what the first two weeks of school feels like to an elementary school teacher, imagine the third or fourth month after becoming a mom....more

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Ree Drummond began blogging in 2006 and has built an award-winning website, where she shares recipes, showcases her photography, and documents her hilarious transition from city life to ranch wife. She is the author of the #1 New York Times bestselling cookbook The Pioneer Woman Cooks. Ree lives on a working cattle ranch near Pawhuska, Oklahoma, with her husband, Ladd; their four kids; their belov...more

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“I missed the anonymity-the ability to run to the market without running into my third-grade teacher.
I missed the nightlife-the knowledge that if I wanted to, there was always an occasion to get dressed up and head out for dinner and drinks.
I missed the restaurants-the Asian, the Thai, the Italian the Indian. I was already tired of mashed potatoes and canned green beans.
I missed the culture- the security that comes from being on the touring schedule of the major Broadway musicals.
I missed the shopping-the funky boutiques, the eclectic shops, the browsing.
I missed the city.” — 10 people liked it

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