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I've read a few books by Barbara O'Neal and loved them. This book, not so much...and I don't know why. It has a lot of the elements I generally love in a work of fiction. I love a book about an organic farm. I almost exclusively read books about women and I generally enjoy books about more mature women. Toss in a dog and it should be a jackpot.But even as I was reading the synopsis I was hesitating for some reason...anyway, I don't really know why but for me this was just OK. What I will say is
This was not my first book by this author and I have to say that each time I read one of her novels, it got 4 or 5 stars. This was no exception as I absolutely loved everything about it. I loved each character, each storyline, each bit of growth they came away with, and the setting where it all takes place. There were times that I actually felt like I knew these women and was on the ride of my life...I am pretty sure this is an author where I will go out of my way to read each and every book I c...
I'm going to have to backtrack and find Barbara O'Neal's The Garden of Happy Endings. Over the years, I've liked some of the novels she's written as Barbara Samuel or Barbara O'Neal, and loved some of them. But, none of them hit home as much as The All You Can Dream Buffet. O'Neal always writes about women finding themselves, and finding the strength within themselves. This time, she writes about four bloggers who find friendship and courage through that friendship. These are women I want to kno...
Four bloggers, The Foodie Four, meet at Lavender's farm in Oregon for Lavender's 85th birthday. Lavender blogs about her farm. Ginny, driving from Dead Gulch, Kansas, wants out of her uninspired life and even less fulfilling marriage. Ginny blogs about cakes. Valerie, a wine blogger, comes as a new widow bearing the loss of her husband and two daughters, with her only surviving daughter, Hannah. Ruby, a 26-year old vegan blogger, pregnant and alone, leaves her protective father behind for this g...
Even though there were tough decisions to make and problems to solve this was a HAPPY book with beautiful, caring, wonderful and interesting characters. Recommended for those who want to loose themselves in a enchanted captivating story.
Gush-alert.This book is every bit as beautifully evocative as the rest of Barbara O'Neal's stories.Wonderful characters that leap off the page. Cute animals. Food. Friendship. And love.A truly gorgeous story of second chances and life changing friendship.LOVED IT!!!!
I loved this author's How to Bake a Perfect Life because of her ability to develop her characters to the point that I felt as though I knew them and I felt their ups and downs along the way. The story was woven so slowly and so intricately that it was hard to put down and sad to close the cover on the final page. This book, however, was not for me.Eighty-five year old Lavender owns prosperous Lavender Honey Farms but she knows her time is near. Not wanting her nephews to inherit the land only to...
Four years ago, when I was discovering that Barbara Samuel writes as Barbara O'Neal, I read that Barbara says her "question" (the one she is answering in her novels) is why do some people survive harsh challenges and why don't others. Since then I have read all of O'Neal's novels and I have enjoyed them all.I do think that part of the attraction to me is the survival question. What is it that makes some families come together and others fall apart? Why are challenges good for some people's growt...
http://charlotteswebofbooks.blogspot....I absolutely adored The All You Can Dram Buffet. So many things resonated with me. The blogging aspect of the story, the internet friendships that are very real, the desire to do something MORE with your life. The whole book just really spoke to my heart. And then there is Lavender's farm, the beauty described by the author left me longing for the Midwest farms of my heart. I also liked how the author highlighted the fact that Lavender was sixty when she t...
I really enjoyed this novel. It's multidimensional characters and their lives propelled me through the book. I wanted to find out why Ginny hadn't had sex with her husband in 12 years and if Liam was going to come back around after finding that Ruby was pregnant with his child? Does Lavender find someone to hand down her farm to or will it be sold and divided up; never to exist again in it's current state? Some of my questions were answered and some were not quite.... but it kept my interest and...
This is the second book I've read by Barbara O'Neal and I am liking her more and more. I love how her books have such a mystical feel. She writes so beautifully about the relationships between four very different women in this book and I just couldn't get enough. By the end of the book I felt like I knew Lavender, Ginny, and Ruby personally. Valerie was the fourth of the "foodie four" but we only got to know her a little bit. In fact she was the only one who didn't have any chapters written from...
This looked like a cozy little read about 4 friends, who are food bloggers, getting together for an 85th birthday. I was enjoying it until I got into the raunchy romance part and then I actually thought I wouldn't be able to finish it. I was trying to find what genre you would call this - is soft porn too harsh? There isn't a lot but it was scattered enough at the end section that it threw me off. The cover looks so innocent. I don't mean to be a prude, I'm just not into that at this stage of li...
Any book of Barbara O'Neal's is a pleasure--her writing, her characters, the setting, the FOOD. All together make a reader wish she lived in that book.
