Be Ready When the Luck Happens: A Memoir by Ina Garten -- BOOK BEGINNINGS

 

BOOK BEGINNINGS ON FRIDAYS

Be Ready When the Luck Happens: A Memoir by Ina Garten

Thank you for joining me this week for Book Beginnings on Fridays where participants share the opening sentence (or two) from the book they are reading. You can also share from a book you want to feature, even if you are not reading it at the moment. 

MY BOOK BEGINNING

"No, I'm not doing it, I'm not climbing that hill."

-- from Be Ready When the Luck Happens: A Memoir by Ina Garten. My sister gave me this book for Christmas and I just finished it. I loved it.

I really didn't know anything about Ina Garten before I read this book. I never watched her on tv and don't have any of her cookbooks. But I was curious and I love food-related memoirs, so I wanted to read it. It didn't disappoint. What an interesting life! 

YOUR BOOK BEGINNING

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THE FRIDAY 56

The Friday 56 asks participants to share a two-sentence teaser from their book of the week. If your book is an ebook or audiobook, pick a teaser from the 56% point. 

Anna at My Head is Full of Books hosts The Friday 56, a natural tie-in with Book Beginnings on Fridays. Please visit My Head is Full of Books to leave the link to your post. 

MY FRIDAY 56

-- from Be Ready When the Luck Happens:

I shopped for my wedding dress on my own, which strikes me as a little sad. It was just as well, because I’m sure my mother and I would have disagreed about the dress.

FROM THE PUBLISHER'S DESCRIPTION

From a difficult childhood to meeting the love of her life, Jeffrey, and marrying him while still in college, from a boring bureaucratic job in Washington, D.C., to answering an ad for a specialty food store in the Hamptons, from the owner of one Barefoot Contessa shop to author of bestselling cookbooks and celebrated television host, Ina has blazed her own trail and, in the meantime, taught millions of people how to cook and entertain. Now, she invites them to come closer to experience her story in vivid detail and to share the important life lessons she learned along the way: do what you love because if you love it you’ll be really good at it, swing for the fences, and always Be Ready When the Luck Happens.