Olive Oil and White Bread
by:
Georgia Beers (author)
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9781612940496 (1612940498)
Pages no: 240
Edition language: English
We’d just finished a rather long, heavy and emotionally draining book and were looking for a fairly short and easy read which is why we picked this book. But this rather slim volume pack a huge punch. Though the cover calls it “a romance” this is “a life”. Starting from girl-sees-girl in the 1980s t...
This is my second attempt at reading this book. I did start from the beginning and although I got much further this time I am still abandoning it. I got about 1/2 way through and I'm just finding the main characters, Angie and Jillian, feel flat and two dimensional. As a result, I'm just not enga...
Like the four star rating says, I really liked this book. As someone who has been with the same woman for nearly 30 years, I appreciated the honest look at what long term couples go through and how hard it can be to stay together. Hard but rewarding and worth the fight. It's easy to lose yourselves ...
Like the four star rating says, I really liked this book. As someone who has been with the same woman for nearly 30 years, I appreciated the honest look at what long term couples go through and how hard it can be to stay together. Hard but rewarding and worth the fight. It's easy to lose yourselves ...
This is a nice change of pace from the usual romance novel story-telling that ends when our couple get together and we assume they live happily ever after. The book covers over 20 years of our ladies' lives. Work and real life challenges intrude--just the usual stuff that long-term married couples h...