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Title: Realistically Ever After : Finding Happiness When He's Not Prince Charming, You're Not Snow White, and Life's Not a Fairy Tale by Christina Ferrare ISBN: 1-57954-947-0 Publisher: Rodale Press Pub. Date: 28 April, 2004 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $22.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 2 (3 reviews)
Rating: 1
Summary: I Used to Be a Fan
Comment: I used to be a fan until I read this book. Totally self-indulgent platform to promote her jewelry line of products.
Rating: 1
Summary: I Used to Be a Fan
Comment: I used to be a fan of Christina Ferrare until I read this book. Besides being totally self-indulgent, the main objective appears to be a hook to launch her jewelry line. No useful information.
Rating: 4
Summary: ENTERTAINING!
Comment: Cristina Ferrare has written a very humorous and yet honest account of the realities of marriage, divorce, giving birth and blending families.
She is honest in her recount of her marriage to John DeLorean in this book (in her beauty book written many years ago she told us her marriage to DeLorean was fabulous) so in retrospect it wasn't fabuluous and she does admit now that in hindsight and with a truly wonderful marriage at present, she was deluding herself about the realities of her marriage to DeLorean.
She saw the blending of the two famiies as "The Brady Bunch" and is very candid when she discovers that nothing could be farther from the truth.
Her sections on pregnancy and childbirth are so refreshing in this day and age when women are led to believe that Lamaze is synonomous with painless and where breastfeeding is a wonderful bond between mother and child instead of an incredibly painful experience.
I loved her fantasy vacations - off they go to Hawaii and Sun Valley and Theme Parks and nothing ever goes according to Cristina's vision of the perfect family on vacation.
The book does take on a somber note when Cristina reveals the depth of her son's drug addiction and his long road back as well as her estrangement from her daughter Kathryn. These chapters don't detract from the lighhearted aspects from the rest of the book and in fact give it more depth.
I have two small problems with this book:
1. She wonders if she can love her grandchildren as much as she does her children and then tells us she loves them more! I don't think I would feel very good if my mother told me that she loves her grandchildren more than she does me and I wonder how her daughters feel about that statement.
2. In discussing her writing, she starts off with the cookbook she wrote as if that were the first book. However, she did write a beauty book back in the 80's that she has totally dismissed in this book and I wonder why. Is it because she tells us what a fabulous marriage she has to John DeLorean in that book and those words have come back to haunt her? I wonder.
Some reviewers are going to dismiss this as so much fluff but I had a smile on my face the whole time I read it and found it to be very honest despite its lightheared tone.
If you are in the mood for a fun read (mostly) told by a funny lady, this is definitely worth reading
I have enjoyed watching Cristina on TV for many years (I even love "The Impossible Years"), wish she had gotten the co-hosting spot with Regis and hope to see her on TV again soon
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Title: Cristina Ferrare's Family Entertaining by Cristina Ferrare, Christina Ferrare ISBN: 0307440141 Publisher: Golden Books Adult Publishing Pub. Date: February, 1998 List Price(USD): $30.00 |
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Title: Grace and Power : The Private World of the Kennedy White House by Sally Bedell Smith ISBN: 0375504494 Publisher: Random House Pub. Date: 04 May, 2004 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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Title: 'Tis Herself : A Memoir by Maureen O'Hara, John Nicoletti ISBN: 0743246934 Publisher: Simon & Schuster Pub. Date: 10 March, 2004 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
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Title: Okay, So I Don't Have A Headache : What I learned (and what all women need to know) about PMS, hormones, stress, diet, menopause--and sex by Christina Ferrare ISBN: 031226366X Publisher: Golden Guides from St. Martin's Press Pub. Date: 05 May, 2000 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: Audrey Hepburn, An Elegant Spirit: A Son Remembers by Sean Hepburn Ferrer ISBN: 0671024787 Publisher: Atria Books Pub. Date: 28 October, 2003 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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