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Hilarious, insightful and riveting
What a great read! I admire the courage of the main character, Jill Campbell. She's a talented and gutsy woman who's not willing to put up with BS and not afraid to make real change in her life, even if it means being on her own. Real Women Eat Beef is a riveting story of how a 30-something advertising executive sheds her cheating husband and struggles to redefine her life and her career in a less-than-honorable advertising agency. Along the way, a 12-year old girl, a couple of goats, and a slew of unlikely, yet memorable, characters from her new small-town community help her discover a life with deeper meaning and make career choices that even Jill's grandfather would find honorable. Hilarious and insightful, RWEB is a cut above the typical chick lit novel.
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January 10, 2007
(Starksboro, VT) | Helpful Votes: 1 | Rating: 5
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New and improved -- now with added goats!
Welcome to advertising executive Jill Campbell's life, version 2.0. Gone are the cheating ex-husband and the chaos of New York. Brand-new features include a prestigious job at a Boston ad agency, a stronger father-daughter relationship, and a gorgeous old farmhouse. It's bliss -- until a snazzy car account evaporates, leaving her branding...beef. Un-snazzy, un-sexy beef -- which she hasn't eaten in twenty years. Talk about false advertising. Owning a two-hundred-year-old house in a one-store hamlet is not the nirvana Jill imagined, even with the addition of a dog, two needy goats, and unexpected encounters with the town's most eligible -- and probably only -- bachelor.
Peace of mind sold separately.
Wondering how she sold herself on this new existence, Jill forms an unlikely bond with Sarah Watson, a feisty twelve-year-old with an aversion to training bras, makeup, and all the trappings that supposedly make sixth grade worthwhile. While Sarah teaches Jill the basics of home maintenance and animal husbandry, Jill helps Sarah deal with impending womanhood. And as men start to complicate matters, every idea Jill ever had about love and advertising gets turned on its head. Suddenly, her life looks nothing like the picture on the box, but it could turn out to be exactly what she didn't know she needed. Top to learn more
New and improved -- now with added goats!
Welcome to advertising executive Jill Campbell's life, version 2.0. Gone are the cheating ex-husband and the chaos of New York. Brand-new features include a prestigious job at a Boston ad agency, a stronger father-daughter relationship, and a gorgeous old farmhouse. It's bliss -- until a snazzy car account evaporates, leaving her branding...beef. Un-snazzy, un-sexy beef -- which she hasn't eaten in twenty years. Talk about false advertising. Owning a two-hundred-year-old house in a one-store hamlet is not the nirvana Jill imagined, even with the addition of a dog, two needy goats, and unexpected encounters with the town's most eligible -- and probably only -- bachelor.
Peace of mind sold separately.
Wondering how she sold herself on this new existence, Jill forms an unlikely bond with Sarah Watson, a feisty twelve-year-old with an aversion to training bras, makeup, and all the trappings that supposedly make sixth grade worthwhile. While Sarah teaches Jill the basics of home maintenance and animal husbandry, Jill helps Sarah deal with impending womanhood. And as men start to complicate matters, every idea Jill ever had about love and advertising gets turned on its head. Suddenly, her life looks nothing like the picture on the box, but it could turn out to be exactly what she didn't know she needed. Top to learn more
Not a bad read
This will keep your interest as you read about a high-powered recently divorced advertising exec who leaves her Manhatten advertising firm and moves back home to a small town outside of Boston to start her life over after her divorce.Jill Campbell has had a meteoric and satisfying career in a Manhattan advertising firm until her husband cheats on her and she leaves her successful career to go to a new job in Boston, her hometown.Jill moves to the country outside Boston and moves into an old ramshackle farmhouse and the story delves into her new life professionally and personally. She is supposed to be branding a new and snazzy car and ends up working on a campaign that is all about beef; hence the title. However, she is not happy working as an executive on a beef account perferring to work on the car account for which she was hired.The story moves along as Jill decides how to handle her career, her relationship with her father and grandfather and...
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May 10, 2010
(Charlotte, NC) | Helpful Votes: 0 | Rating: 3
Tracy McArdle captivated me from the beginning of this charming coming-of-middle-age story.
Advertising executive Jillian Campbell is going through some major life changes. She's divorced her cheating husband and traded in the fast-paced New York lifestyle for a farmhouse in Holton, Massachusetts. She's also taken on a new and exciting job with the Boston ad agency, Wiseman Connor. Jillian thinks that she has her life on track and everything she wants or needs is right at her fingertips but her `new life' just may involve a few surprises which will have her reevaluating her priorities.Jillian fell in love with the old farmhouse the moment she saw it online. Obtaining it is the only thing that seems to be going according to plan though. The house needs some work and she doesn't have time to do it herself. Her father's getting remarried and Jillian doesn't like his fiancé. Her grandfather is suddenly having less and less moments of lucid thought and his temperment resembles a petulant child. The cushy car account she was promised when she signed on...
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March 18, 2007
(Cloverdale, OREGON USA) | Helpful Votes: 0 | Rating: 4
