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Sep 27, 2011

Annette rated it:

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...
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Dec 17, 2011

Ragan rated it:

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 e More...

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Mar 03, 2011

Christy rated it:

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 23, 2011

krisabelle rated it:

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Apr 14, 2011

Melany rated it:

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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Jan 30, 2012

Tawn rated it:

A well written fast paced love story that is a quick read. I liked the conversational style, honesty, and the pure romance of it, although it's a far cry from romance literature; more like memoirs of a real life romance. As a bonus, the value and the happiness the two main characters put on love and marriage are refreshing from the current crop of novels on marriage.

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Feb 18, 2012

Danielle rated it:

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...

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Feb 06, 2012

Ellie rated it:

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 mak More...

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Jan 24, 2012

Carissa rated it:

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 More...

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Jan 24, 2012

Rebecca rated it:

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Nov 12, 2011

Dawn rated it:

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, a More...

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Oct 04, 2011

Melissa rated it:

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Sep 15, 2011

Joanne rated it:

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 h More...

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Sep 13, 2011

Rebecca rated it:

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".)

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Aug 27, 2011

Relyn rated it:

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 m More...

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Jul 23, 2011

Elizabeth rated it:

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Jun 20, 2011

Jana rated it:

I read this when it first came out and forgot to put it on my Goodreads list until I saw it pop up on a friend's reviews. I like PW's recipes (but not her picture-heavy posts or unfunny self-deprecation or repetitive how to chop an onion directions) and I used to really like her blog, but I grew up on a farm and in a small town so the isn't-this-quaint and all-midwesterners-eat-like-crap stories get on my nerves a little bit. Anyway, this book read like a bunch of blog posts that were printed More...

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Jun 15, 2011

Brenda rated it:

I really liked this story. First one I've ever written where the man in the story is referred to as her Marlboro Man - it isn't until the end when I read the notes by the author as this is the story of her meeting the man in her life and their first year of marriage....that I found out the name of her husband! LOL That was unusual to me that she never referred to him by name. Life isn't always perfect but she keeps most things pretty light. Her parents marriage is in trouble, and that is alw More...

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Jun 15, 2011

Wendy rated it:

The problem with publishing a bunch of blog posts as a book is that it reads like a bunch of blog posts: choppy, hastily written and desperately in need of a good editor. Drummond's writing is rife with bad cliches and superfluous adjectives, and at times I wasn't sure if it was her future husband she was in love with or her own cooking (or Anne Klein jeans). Also a sore spot: the plot was flat and strangely vague at times- the reader is given play-by-plays of their makeout sessions, but beyon More...

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May 04, 2011

Ashlee rated it:

I don't know if it is my farming background or my current state of life, but I loved this book by popular blogger, The Pioneer Woman (aka Ree Drummond). The book is a real love story set on an Oklahoma cattle ranch. Drummond is in love with her husband in a way that I hope every woman can relate to. She is funny and provides the perfect amount of modest steaminess! (It is a love story after all!)

This book is perfect if you want a happy story that does not require intellectual thi More...

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May 04, 2011

Pleegenes rated it:

I received this as a birthday present and as much as I love Ree’s website, I groaned inwardly when I saw this was a love story because I don’t like love stories. I’ve heard a lot about her Marlboro Man on her website and I didn’t want to read anymore about her perfect love life. I read this book in two evenings, I couldn’t put it down. It’s a beautiful love story, a head over heels, knocked off her feet courtship. Ree is vulnerable, transparent, funny, humble and a lovely person to read about. More...

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Apr 25, 2011

Heather rated it:

This book had so many holds on it at the library, I didn't think I'd get my hands on it for a YEAR. Which made me conclude that 1) the library had a TON of copies in the system to keep up with its popularity, and 2) people must be flying through it and returning it quickly. So needless to say, I was excited to get going myself.
I can definitely understand why anyone would fly through it. I found myself alone on a very odd Sunday, early evening. We'd had a family event that day, so the ki More...

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Mar 24, 2011

Ali rated it:

The Pioneer Woman is Ree Drummond’s online moniker and I find the name fits her quite well after reading her memoir The Pioneer Woman: Black Heels to Tractor Wheels. She is a woman who wears many hats in life: Wife, mother, blogger, photographer, deliciously motivated home cook, and in the style of Lucille Ball…a comedian. Whether or not it was intentional, the name Pioneer Woman applies to many more events in Ree’s life than just her move out to the country with her cowboy husband.
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Mar 23, 2011

Rachael rated it:

Is this the most well written book in the entire world? No. Do I wish that Ree's editors had done a better job prepping it to be printed? Oh, yes. Is it almost a little bit too unrealistically sweet? Yes. Are there points in the story that I thought to myself, "Really? *That* was your idea of a good choice/plan/action/whatever?" Of course. Did I love this story anyway? Abso-freaking-lutely. Look, she's a blogger, so I'm willing to excuse the way it reads like a blog at times More...

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Mar 21, 2011

Kris rated it:

This was a good book to read after I finished the slightly psyche-scarring "Uprising." Light and easy to read, fun and humorous. But I had some issues with it.

First, it reads like a blog, which is kind of like "duh," since Drummond is a blogger. I remember reading about the first 1/4th of the book when she was doing weekly updates on it. But somehow I thought the finished product would be less bloggy and more... booky? It seemed choppy in places, a little " More...

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Mar 20, 2011

Sarah rated it:

This book was a biography written by Ree Drummond about how she met and fell in love with her husband. She writes a popular blog where she talks about her daily life, gives some recipes, and various other interesting facts about living on a ranch.

I used to read non-fiction almost exclusively before I found fiction authors and a genre that I really enjoyed reading. Going back to anything reality-based at this point is a struggle for me, but I really wanted to give this book a shot. I More...

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Mar 10, 2011

Adrian rated it:

it makes me so so so sad to give this such a low rating. She thanks her editors effusively in the intro, but in my opinion they did her a disservice. Her story was much better told when she was writing it up on her blog, in part because her own wry voice came through perfectly clearly. In this book version, somebody muddied it up in the name of style. It was a great story on the blog. This is a terrible book.

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Feb 15, 2011

Lydia rated it:

I am a hopeless romantic. I'm also a bit of a cheeseball (as my family will vehemently attest to). In addition, I can thoroughly understand the lure of Wranglers, and cowboy hats, and cowboy boots, and work-roughened hands. So it was inevitable that I pick up this book.

I've been a follower of Ree's blog for a few years now. I picked up her cookbook when it was released and took the opportunity to meet the lady and her sister, Betsy. They were sweet, and perfect. I loved every m More...

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Feb 14, 2011

Lindsay rated it:

I LOVED it. If you read her blog at all you know that PW is just one of those women who you can totally "get". You just want to be friends with her, you feel like you know her already, which is simply a reflection of how transparent and genuine she is in her writing. Her blog is just fun and enjoyable as well as encouraging and inspiring and I check it nearly every day simply because there is always something new and fun to read about her interesting life with four kids - homeschooling More...

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Apr 26, 2011

Kristi rated it:

This was my absolute favorite book of all time. I thought it was fantastically and realistically written. The only thing anywhere near negative I have to say was it seemed like maybe she embellished her story for the sake of making it more interesting but in all honesty, this was my story. I wasn't from a city as big as LA and we don't live on a ranch but I'm a city girl turned country girl because I fell in love with a country boy/cowboy/farmer and I am loving every minute of it. Everyday with More...

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