The Pioneer Woman Book Review

"The week of a girl's wedding was supposed to be a happy time. I should have been leaping gleefully around my parents' house, using a glitter-infused feather duster to sparkle up my wedding gifts, which adorned every flat surface in the house. I should have been eating melon balls and laughing in the kitchen with my mom and sister about how it's almost here! Don't you love this Waterford vase? Oooh, the cake is going to be sooooo pretty. Instead I was in my bathroom holding my face at gunpoint, forcing it to exfoliate on command."
 -The Pioneer Woman: Black Hells to Tractor Wheels A Love Story by Ree Drummond

Originally from Oklahoma, Ree Drummond attended college in LA where she relished in the city life, becoming a health nut-heel wearing-martini drinking-vegetarian. After graduation she decided to end a long term relationship, leave LA and move to the Windy City, Chicago. During this transition, Ree moved back to her parents house in Oklahoma while trying to find the perfect Chicago apartment. One evening, she dressed to the nines, headed to a bar, and met a cowboy, a swoon-worthy cowboy. At that moment she viewed him as her "marlboro man," someone she was head over heels, madly in love with. However, life had other plans and they didn't cross paths again until a few weeks before her big move to Chicago.

"The Pioneer Woman" is a memoir written with honesty, humor, and sarcasm. I caught myself laughing throughout the book and rooting "hurrah!" at points while in others cringing in the tension or dire situations. Overall this was a book that I didn't want to put down. I even laughed at myself thinking that this memoir is the closest romance-novel like book that I have ever read and I'm not ashamed to say I LOVED it!

If you read it too this month, share your thoughts and favorite quote! If you didn't get a chance to read it; find it and read it!

In honor of Breast Cancer Awareness Month, October's read will be "The Middle Place" by Kelly Corrigan which is a memoir about a woman who works her way through breast cancer and its impact on her family.

Happy Reading!