In "The Chocolate Diaries, Secrets for a Sweeter Journey on the Rocky Road of Life", Karen Scalf Linamen serves up advice, resources and chocolate - what a great combination.
Retelling stories of women she has come to know, the author gives the reader hope by offering coping mechanisms, great resources, humor, tears and of course chocolate. Each story, set in an easy to read chapter, brings something new to the reader. Stories of every day women who survived abuse and moved on to create and run victim's support organization to insight into the life of Jan Dravecky as she raised her family while supporting her husband's baseball career then stood with him during his battle with cancer. Each chapter is punctuated with a quick and easy chocolate recipe, just enough to be a pick me up at any time.
Reading this book during a particularly rocky period in my own life gave me some new perspectives as well as challenges. The author is a list maker and encourages her readers to do the same. I love her suggestion that you start each list with "eat chocolate daily" so at the end of the day you can at least cross one thing off your list. I think I'm going to try that one.
The "Food for Thought" at the end of each chapter makes this a great read for a book club. Those tidbits provide some great things to think on and would be wonderful material to share with others.
A great little book, an easy read and some great new ideas for when I'm craving chocolate - overall a great combination.
I received this book free from WaterBrook Multnoman Publishing Group in exchange for this review.
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