nataliecooper 's review for:

Be Ready When the Luck Happens by Ina Garten

informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

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I loved this. It wasn’t a ground breaking or necessarily eye opening story but this felt comforting and warm and safe. I’ve always loved Ina Garten and know her from Barefoot Contessa but I never actually knew her story. Learning about her childhood and her path before becoming what she is now was really beautiful to read about. I loved seeing her relationship and marriage with Jeffery and I loved the lessons and themes on marriage that were mentioned throughout the book. However my favorite part by far was learning about her career in the food world. I loved reading about her experiences as a business owner and then as a cookbook author and then as a tv star. The writing style felt very natural and was easy to get into and I loved the pictures and recipes sprinkled in throughout the book. My only complaint if you can even call it that was that I would’ve loved for her to go a little more in depth with some of the later stages of her life. The last quarter of the book felt a little more shallow than the rest and I would’ve loved to have read more about it. But regardless of that I still absolutely loved this story and I think I’m gonna go watch barefoot contessa now.