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Eat Cake by Jeanne Ray
Eat Cake by Jeanne Ray: a wonderful feel-good type of book that probably most people could easily relate to.
Ruth, a housewife in Minneapolis, loves to bake cakes. Baking a cake is her form of both relaxation and therapy, something that she's going to need a lot of in her near future.
Ruth lives with her husband Sam, her difficult teenage daughter Camille, and her mother Hollis who moved in after her house was robbed. To complicate things even further, Sam loses his job and Ruth's father Guy, whom she hardly even sees and her mother hates, has a serious accident and has to move in. Needless to say, tension in the household increases and Ruth begins baking even more cakes.
In reality, this book was pretty easy to predict what was going to happen next, but I loved reading every word of it. Ray's voice is soothing and funny and very easy to get sucked into. I enjoyed her characters, especially Ruth, Hollis, and Guy, and the interaction among the family was a joy to experience.
Like a piece of cake, Eat Cake was both light and enjoyable - perfect summer reading or to just take a break from every day life.
(Finished on September 24, 2003 for Zuly’s Reading Room.)
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Comments
I liked this book quite a bit. There's no huge, horrible drama that had my stomach twisting in knots. I think that may be why I liked it so much.
.: lynda said on October 9, 2003 05:54 PM :: link it :.Oh! I really want to read that book! Still have it? :) I'll be reading A Woman of Salt soon...
.: Christine said on October 12, 2003 11:41 PM :: link it :.You're too early! Come back at October 9, 2003 05:18 PM to see this post.
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