Pick Up Miss Cecilys Recipes For Exceptional Ladies Articulated By Vicky Zimmerman Issued As Text
on Twitter is talking about The Woman Who Wanted More by Vicky Zimmerman and I can see why, I myself had to tweet about this book as I think it's sensational with a mixture of food to feed the heart and love and friendship.
Kate Parker feels lucky to be in love with her boyfriend Nick, who just so happens to be a good cook, knocking up those delicious recipes that Kate enjoyed so much.
Let's face it, we all love food cooked by our boyfriend, Nick has plans for Kate to move in with him, but first there's a trip to France, They seem happy just like people do, making plans and taking holidays, But the trip to France goes horribly wrong, I loved the idea of Kate having a friend with Cecily a ninetysevenyearold, her story was fascinating, one that it is very easy to feel so real.
Will Kate and Nick make up after their trip to France that went not the way Kate planned it to turn out I recommend The Woman Who Wanted More by Vicky Zimmerman to every reader, whatever your age.
While I consider this chicklit and it not being one of my fav genres, it was a very good story, and I bumped the rating up a half star for the back story of the author's grandmother.
What a cute story, and apparently Im drawn to books with themes of friendships and foodwhich this book definitely has both of,
I had just come off a streak of suspenseful and fantasy reads when I picked up this book, and it was just the heartfelt read I was looking for.
The characters have continued to stay with me even after finishing, which are signs of a great book!
Kate Parker is close to turningand dating a guy named Nick Sullivan, but he couldnt be more of a user.
Its here that she has to move back home with her Mom, and volunteers at a retirement home, Lauderdale House for Exceptional Ladies, What a delight! I adored Cecily, who is ayearold resident, feisty, and full of wit and charm, If all grandmothers could aspire to be Cecily one day,
I highly recommend if you are looking for an uplifting read, with female friendship bonds, and a look at the life choices we must make.
Thank you to the publisher for the gifted copy, All opinions are my own Charming, funny and uplifting, The Woman Who Wanted More is a wonderful read from a talented writer, It is a celebration of food and female friendship, full of insights about life, the choices we make and the effect those we encounter have on us.
Heartbreak is always best remedied with food and with good friends, and this book shows why, It's an empowering reminder that life is full of opportunities, once we are open to them, And that admitting you've failed is "not really failure it's the first step towards the future",
I highlighted a lot of passages in this book :
With thanks to the author, publisher and NetGalley for an ARC, Absolute perfection I adored this book! Thank you to NetGalley for an ARC of Miss Cecily's Recipes for Exceptional Ladies,
I love food and I love to eat, so I was excited when my request was approved,
The premise is formulaic an almostyear old woman named Kate is slogging through life with a crappy job, narcissistic boyfriend and low self esteem.
When she meets a feisty, almost centenarian named Cecily, who has lived more lifetimes than Kate can count, Kate cleans up her life, her attitude and her behavior.
I didn't like Kate I found her wishy washy, so desperate not to be alone that she would subject herself to be with a man who didn't respect her.
Cecily is your typical archetype of an elderly widow who has seen more of life most of us have only read about she has no filter, has traveled across the world and back, and loved a man so deeply, there are no words to describe their love.
The recipes are delicious, Cecily's anecdotes and life recaps just as dramatic and life affirming as any reader would imagine,
But, the book was bogged down with filler, unnecessary filler filler about Kate's dates with the pigeon, her unresolved issues with her mother, her work issues.
A hard edit ofpages, at least, would have made the pacing less slow since I found my attention wandering at times,
I did love the author's note on how she based Cecily on her amazing grandmother,
I never warmed up to Kate, but Cecily was full of life, personality and no regrets, exactly how I want to life my life.
The Woman Who Wanted More is one of my favourite reads of, I knew going in that I'd enjoy it, but I did not realise just quite how much I'd enjoy it, I devoured this book in absolutely no time at all, It was the perfect read to break up all of the Fantasy and Young Adult books I've been reading,
Firstly, the cover is eye catching, It's a beautiful colour, the font and theme of the book stands out at first glance,
The plot was great, I found myself pulled in from the getgo and I couldn't wait to see what happened, The talk of food throughout this book had me fascinated, I wanted to try every recipe and dish mentioned, it all sounded super yummy,
Vicky has a great prose and flow to her work, and I look forward to reading more of her works in the future, This book was a breath of fresh air,
I loved Kate, I thought she was one of the most real characters I've read in a while, but even she lost her shine when put next to Cecily.
I found myself and people I know amongst the characters in this book, and I couldn't help but love them,
I gave this bookout ofstars,.
A heartwarming story about an unlikely friendship between twoandyear old women,
A feelgood buddy read with PorshaJo, One we both really enjoyed and dont we all need that right now!,cooking
I really enjoyed the main character in this one, Kate Parker, although Cecily might think that she should be the main character! It does seem like a trend that there are more books written lately about older people and I do tend to like them.
In this case, we have Kate who is about to turn, Shes been working way too long in a job she doesnt enjoy anymore, and her love life is not exactly perfect, At loose ends, she ends up volunteering at the Lauderdale House for Exceptional Ladies and it is filled with women who led remarkable lives, She is encouraged to visit Cecily, who is a pricklyyearold who doesnt get any visitors,
Kate loves to cook, and the book is filled with various menus and situations around food! While I do enjoy cooking and eating, there may have been a bit too much on that in this book! Cecily loans Kate a cookbook and it becomes a selfhelp book and source of amusement for Kate and her friends with menus suggested for every occasion.
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doesnt always like Cecilys advice or attitude, but the two grow on each other, By the end of the book, Cecily had grown on me, I found out in the authors notes that Cecily is based on her grandmother and I do wish I had known that at the outset.
This book is filled with interesting characters and I did enjoy reading it, but was too long in my opinion! This was a terrific buddy read with Jayme and Susan and it was great fun to discuss.
I couldn't finish this book, First, the way Kate was acting over Nick for at least the first quarter of the book was so grating, There were so many pages just full of her pining away at this manchild when she's well over old enough to know better, Second, the writing just fell flat to me, I wanted so many more descriptors of moments and things and got none, The book would have gone so much faster if we'd gotten a little blurb about Kate going through a breakup or maybe not a breakup, a wobble, but she felt like it might have been a break, but what if it wasn't really and then focused on her relationship with Cecily.
Cecily was the only reason I was keeping interest in this book but again the writing just lacked any kind of depth, When Kate and Cecily have their first oneonone meeting, it was nothing but dry dialogue, There were no descriptors! How was Cecily looking at Kate Listening to Kate Did she fiddle with anything while she talked Did her hands or body shake or tremble slightly from the Parkinson's Did she scoff or grunt or roll her eyes We'll never know because it was just line after line of:
"Hello"
"Hi"
"I hate your pie"
"Well why"
"I'm old and curmudgeonly.
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"Why not give it a chance"
"I'd rather be dead in the morning"
On and on and on, I'm sorry, because I really wanted to like this book but I just could not, Full review to come! But this book is so adorable! Such a great book, the characters were fabulous! Thank you Source Books for the ARC! I confess right up front that my "just average" rating has more to do with when I read this book than the book itself.
It was a library hold that came in while I was reading another absorbing novel, so I chose to read this at bedtime since it was a lighter, happier book.
I should know better, I find it hard to concentrate on a plot when I'm tired, so I probably didn't give it the attention it deserved.
It was good, it was witty, I loved both Cecily and Kate, but I was hoping for some actual recipes, not just descriptions of the food.
This book haschapters and it doesn't really pick up and become interesting until chapter, While I liked Cecily very much SO much snark!, Kate just about drove me mad, And the early chapters about her and Nick and all the dysfunction, . . Yeah, no. Just no.
While the recipes were amazing to read along with the ideas and advice and the supper club idea was intriguing, it just wasn't enough to keep my mind from wandering, and for me to not skim and then have to go BACK and reread when I was confused over something and the end kind of made up for some of the beginning though this "happily ever after" trope is really old and actually, not suited here IMO, I truly was hoping for so much more than I actually got.
Thank you to NetGalley and SOURCEBOOKS Landmark for providing this ARC in exchange for an honest review,
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