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The Unlikely Lavender Queen: A Memoir of Unexpected Blossoming

Jeannie Ralston

Hardcover | Pages: 272 pages

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Title	:	The Unlikely Lavender Queen: A Memoir of Unexpected Blossoming
Author	:	Jeannie Ralston
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	Anniversary Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 272 pages
Published	:	May 27th 2008 by Broadway (first published January 1st 2008)
Categories	:	Nonfiction. Autobiography. Memoir. Biography Memoir

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I couldn't help but question how I'd gotten to this strange spot in my life, so far from what I'd expected for myself. Yes, there had been a heady romance a few years back. Then a slew of subsequent decisions, fueled by love and yearnings I didn't even know I had. But I never, ever would have suspected that this was where the sum total of them would bring me. That afternoon a new doubt dripped into my mind. When do you know, I wondered, whether the choices you've made were the right ones? In 1990, Jeannie Ralston was a successful magazine writer and bona fide city girl-the type of woman who couldn't imagine living on soil not shaded by skyscrapers. By 1994, she had called off an engagement, married Robb, a National Geographic photographer, and was living in Blanco Texas, population 1600.

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Original Title:	The Unlikely Lavender Queen: A Memoir of Unexpected Blossoming
ISBN:	0767927958 (ISBN13: 9780767927956)
Edition Language:	English
Setting:	Blanco, Texas(United States)

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I was a bit disappointed by this book. I thought it was going to be more about her starting her lavender farm and how she grew her business. How to plant lavender and the products she made from the lavender planted in they fields. It was classified as 633 in the library dewey decimal system; that's the classification for planting and soil and farming.Instead it starts out with her life in New York and her engagement to another man. How she met her husband and moved to Texas. His idea to start a

I had high hopes for this book, a memoir about a woman who leaves NYC for rural Texas to start a life with the man she loves. Although at times comic, Ralston comes across as a spoiled whiner whose attitude takes away from her own story. The book was a disappointment - I'd give it 1 1/2 stars if I could.

Mixed feelings about this book. By the end I was trying to find things to like about the author. She started out a New York snob looking down on the Austin/Hill Country people, and for the most part, I think she had the same opinion throughout. (A disclaimer: I have lived my whole life in the great state of Texas.) The author did seem to learn a lot about Texas, and I felt for her with her bouts of depression. She was a doer and a self starter, and those are admirable qualities. She loved her

I read this book for my book club and, indeed, it seems made for just this sort of venue. Any wife or mother will find things about Jeannie Ralston to relate to -- struggling to get pregnant, the difficulty of a newborn, negotiating big life decisions with a spouse. The book raises plenty of big ticket issues that are great for a book club to discuss and no one can argue that Jeannie hasn't had an interesting life! On the other hand, there were so many points when I found myself deeply annoyed

Decided to start this one next since I'm planning on going to the Hill Country Lavender Festival in Blanco in mid-June. Full disclosure: I'm reading a bound galley that was sent out to press folks.6/13: Finished it last night. I really liked this book. So much so that I bought a proper hardback copy which I'll try to get signed this weekend at the Lavender Festival.This is a great book for any woman who's had to compromise certain aspects of her life to make a marriage and family work. Which I

The authorial voice is so discontented, so whiny in the face of plenty, so relentlessly unhappy that reading this book is less like a gambol through the lavender fields and more like a catalog of how rich people suffer the slings and arrows of too many choices. I finished it merely because I was certain that she wouldn't have written a book that was simply a chronicle of the injustices of her life. I was wrong.

Saw this reviewed somewhere and piqued my curiosity...especially when to do with lavender even in the most round-a-bout way.