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Reading Room:  Confessions of a Counterfeit Farm Girl  |
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JessieMae
True Blue Farmgirl
702 Posts
Jessie
Raleigh
North Carolina
USA
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 Posted - Apr 30 2009 : 11:38:24 AM
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Has anyone else read Confessions of a Counterfeit Farm Girl by Susan McCorkindale? I'm about halfway through it and am eager to hear other Farmgirls' opinions.
Here is my opinion so far: What a waste of a good farm!
Jessie Mae
Farmgirl Sisterhood #134 |
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graciegreeneyes
True Blue Farmgirl
3107 Posts
Amy Grace
Rosalia
WA
USA
3107 Posts |
Posted - Apr 30 2009 : 12:35:42 PM
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I haven't read it but picked it up a couple of times at Costco (drawn by the farmgirl part of the title) only to put it back down because it sounded like just that - a waste of a farm. Is the book worth reading do you think, or a waste of time too?
Amy Grace
Farmgirl #224
"use it up, wear it out, make it do, or do without"
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JessieMae
True Blue Farmgirl
702 Posts
Jessie
Raleigh
North Carolina
USA
702 Posts |
Posted - Apr 30 2009 : 6:20:45 PM
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Here's the book (so far) in a nutshell:
Too-rich-for-words New York advertising executive gets handed - for free - a farm, house, barns, etc. and then spends months teetering about the barnyard in high heels and designer clothes and complaining about the lack of Starbucks.
Fortunately, I got it from the library. I would probably be upset if I spent money on it.
Jessie Mae
Farmgirl Sisterhood #134 |
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graciegreeneyes
True Blue Farmgirl
3107 Posts
Amy Grace
Rosalia
WA
USA
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Posted - Apr 30 2009 : 7:39:57 PM
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Yeah - some things you just can't relate to, I don't think I could wear heels if you paid me, much less put them on to traipse about the farm in:)
Amy Grace
Farmgirl #224
"use it up, wear it out, make it do, or do without"
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prariehawk
True Blue Farmgirl
2914 Posts
Cindy
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Posted - Apr 30 2009 : 8:05:42 PM
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| Hasn't this all been done before, aka Green Acres? |
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JessieMae
True Blue Farmgirl
702 Posts
Jessie
Raleigh
North Carolina
USA
702 Posts |
Posted - May 01 2009 : 04:24:34 AM
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This is a true story; this is her memoir. I can't decide if she's making fun of herself or making fun of rural life. And the country people around her aren't even "farmers" per se. They're the kind of people with weekend "farms" - ten-room Gregorian mansions with a few hundred thoroughbred horses grazing on the property that they visit when the urge to wear jodphurs with turtlenecks hits.
Jessie Mae
Farmgirl Sisterhood #134 |
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palmettogirl
True Blue Farmgirl
571 Posts
sue
camden
south carolina
USA
571 Posts |
Posted - May 01 2009 : 06:09:29 AM
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| that kind of sounds like "the simple life" (i think that was the name of it) with that Hilton girl and nichole Ritchie?? i never watched it. however, i guess they made a lot of money with it and it sounds like maybe that$ what is behind the incentive to write that book! |
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JessieMae
True Blue Farmgirl
702 Posts
Jessie
Raleigh
North Carolina
USA
702 Posts |
Posted - May 05 2009 : 11:30:20 AM
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Well, I toughed it out and finished it...it never got any better. She didn't even TRY to be a farm girl. She just complained...a lot.
Jessie Mae
Farmgirl Sisterhood #134 |
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Jami
True Blue Farmgirl
1238 Posts
Jami
Ellensburg
WA
USA
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carolbrigid
True Blue Farmgirl
263 Posts
Carol
Glen Burnie
Maryland
USA
263 Posts |
Posted - May 05 2009 : 9:12:11 PM
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I loved Green Acres!! Remember Arnold the Pig??LOL and I liked The Simple Life. Those girls got into a heap of trouble sometimes!!
Farmgirl Hugs,
Carol
Farmgirl Sister #222
Member, Crafty Bay Farmgirl Chapter |
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