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 enlarge | Author: Debby Bull
Publisher: Hyperion
Category: Book
List Price: $10.45
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Rating:  11 reviews
Sales Rank: 471153
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 176
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 7 x 4.5 x 0.5
ISBN: 0786883200
Dewey Decimal Number: 818.5409
EAN: 9780786883202
ASIN: 0786883200
Publication Date: April 22, 1998
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| Customer Reviews:
 Humorous and upbeat! October 13, 1998
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I loved the book. Thought Ms.Bull did a great job of telling us the story combined with the recipes. She can write more along this vein and have a faithful following waiting in the wings. I found her humor along the lines of Erma Bombeck. The only reason I could figure out for this other "reviewer" to say that the book was "whining" is because they just don't "get it." If they did, they'd see how funny the book actually is. The recipes are funny, the way she'd write the ingredients and instructions and then had a quirky comment that related to the lost love. Very cute idea.
 Very disappointing ... whining rather than uplifting. August 7, 1998
2 out of 16 found this review helpful
This was a tremendous disappointment to me. The entire book isdevoted to the author's distress over a lost love. Although we allknow how unbelievably (and unbearably) devastating that is, life *does* go on. Since Christopher Reeve, the off-duty policeman paralyzed one St. Patrick's Day, and other extraordinary people like them -- not to mention those who have lost loved ones (even children) to death -- can find the strength to go on, it seems almost ludicrous to devote an entire book to the trauma of losing a lover, and long periods of being unable to get dressed in the morning or go to work, et cetera. Most of us simply don't have that luxury, and have to pick ourselves up, dust ourselves off, and start over again. However much we may mourn the loss, we must move on. I therefore think that a good, uplifting book would be much better than this ... one which reminds us of how lucky we are, and how much we still have to be thankful for.I was also greatly disappointed with the recipes. Although "lessons in canning" is part of the title, I could not find *ONE* reference to how the recipes turned out save for the author having come in second (out of only two entries) to a twelve year old at the state or county fair. That's not much of a testimonial for me! For me to be inspired to try the recipes, I'd have wanted to read that they were delicious, that people loved them, or whatever -- something besides have come in second out of only two entries, with the other a twelve year old. I just think that this book is a downer, and that people should instead try to focus on the positive, and upon how much they have for which to be thankful. Very disappointing ... whining rather than uplifting.
A gorgeous, gorgeous book June 30, 1998
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
This little book offers so much: beautiful packaging of the hardcover (worth the extra dollars), punchy writing, wry sense of humor and canning recipes even! I love this book. It's the cutest-looking book I own. I wasn't going through heartbreak when I read it, but if I was, it would have given me a lift. Support this wonderful writer, and buy her book.Barbara DeMarco Barrett, writer and host of "Writers on Writing"
I haven't canned yet, but I do feel better March 1, 1998
I liked this book a lot. It is well written, honest, wry and off-the-wall in all the right proportions. It is written with real (and tangible) emotion. A friend gave me this book while I was sick. I was in love (and engaged) at the time. Five months later, after having been painfully dumped, I picked it up and read it. I laughed, cried, and nodded in agreement. I was grateful my (ex-) boyfriend wasn't the creep Debby Bull's was. My heart was still broken after reading the book, but I knew I was going to be all right.
 rings a bell November 6, 1997
I've been in her shoes, and i know how it feels to search for peace. She does a great, amusing job describing her search. I did not like the ending all that much (too predictable). On another note, i am sure few are going to go to the store and buy a book on canning, yet this book has perfectly good recipes that one can follow. Canning, a lost art, now recovered thanks to DB
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