Last spring, when Melissa Ford told me in a “cone of silence” kind of way that she had a novel coming out later in the year I was thrilled for her and then I sort of forgot about it. When she emailed me last week and told me that her book… it was really coming out, like this month. What?! Already?! Awesome!
I headed over to Amazon and discovered I could pre-order the book which should ship in a couple of weeks… or I could get it now for Kindle. I obviously could not wait so onto my Kindle app it went. I said I was going to start reading it over the weekend, after I finished the other books I had to finish over the weekend but the reality was, I couldn’t wait to start – so I started on Friday and got through chapter 2 before I reluctantly went back to the other two books that I HAD TO FINISH…
Melissa opens with a great quote (and don’t take my word for it, Julie Godar Yammered exactly the same thing when she started reading it on Friday).
“June Cleaver beat the crap out of me with her rolling pin.”
Heh.
Life From Scratch is about Rachel… a graphic designer living in NYC who has pretty recently divorced from her trying-to-make-partner lawyer husband. She read blogs and relationship blogs helped her get through those early divorce days. One of those blogs spurred her to start a blog of her own – a food blog/life blog sort of thing.
Rachel is like a lot of bloggers – she finds it very hard to believe people actually read her blog. It isn’t until her best friend introduces her to a stats program that she realizes just how many people read her blog. After her best friend nominates her for a “Bloscar” — well, she really begins to understand that not only do people read her blog, they like it – and she’s (gasp!) a writer!
Rachel struggles through dating and family relationships and trying to figure out what to do with her life and in the end… you’ll just have to read it to find out what happens to Rachel. And then sit here and wait with me while Melissa writes the second installment in the series. Because there must be a second installment… the book ends with Rachel not quite where I expected her to be (or if I’m honest, where I wanted her to be) and now I need to know how she’s going to manage…. Everything.