Journal Entry 1 by elsi from Sanger, Texas USA on Sunday, September 27, 2009

From the back cover:

‘They say there is no such thing as a perfect marriage, but of course there is. A perfect marriage is where two people live together most of their lives until death separates them. What there is no such thing as is an easy marriage. And when it comes to love, people have somehow come around to equating love with ease.’

New York food writer Tressa returns from honeymoon worried that she has married her impossibly handsome new husband Dan out of late-thirties panic instead of love.

In 1930s Ireland, her grandmother, Bernadine, is married off to the local schoolteacher after her family are unable to raise a dowry for her to marry her true love, Michael. During the first year of her marriage, Tressa distracts herself from her stay-or-go dilemma by working on her grandmother's recipes, searching for solace and answers through their preparation.

Through the stories of these two women, Recipes for a Perfect Marriage challenges the modern ideal of romantic love as a given and ponders whether true love can really be learned.

Journal Entry 2 by elsi from Sanger, Texas USA on Sunday, September 27, 2009

I bought this book in the St. Vincent de Paul Society shop in Galway. I'm a sucker for books at any time and even more so in a charity shop when they've been reduced to 1/2 price! I'm about 80% of the way through it and have been enjoying it very much. Will release it some place in Dublin rather than carry it back home to the USA. 

Journal Entry 3 by elsi at The Long Stone Pub (OBCZ) in Dublin, Co. Dublin Ireland on Monday, September 28, 2009

Released 2 yrs ago (9/28/2009 UTC) at The Long Stone Pub (OBCZ) in Dublin, Co. Dublin Ireland

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Left on the shelf with all the other BookCrossing books. I took The End of Summer by Rosamunde Pilcher in exchange. 

Journal Entry 4 by helod from Templeogue, Co. Dublin Ireland on Wednesday, October 28, 2009

Enjoyable enough, not really my kind of book.