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    The Pioneer Woman: Black Heels to Tractor Wheels - A Love Story
    The Pioneer Woman: Black Heels to Tractor Wheels - A Love Story
    The Pioneer Woman: Black Heels to Tractor Wheels - A Love Story
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    The Pioneer Woman: Black Heels to Tractor Wheels - A Love Story

    By Ree Drummond

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    New York Times Bestseller

    Wildly popular award-winning blogger, accidental ranch wife, and #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Pioneer Woman Cooks, Ree Drummond (aka The Pioneer Woman) tells the true story of her storybook romance that led her from the Los Angeles glitter to a cattle ranch in rural Oklahoma, and into the arms of her real-life Marlboro Man.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperCollins
    Release dateFeb 1, 2011
    ISBN9780062084330
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    Ree Drummond

    Ree Drummond is the author of seven #1 New York Times bestselling cookbooks in the Pioneer Woman Cooks series, the New York Times bestsellers Frontier Follies and The Pioneer Woman: Black Heels to Tractor Wheels, and many bestselling children’s books. Her award-winning website, The Pioneer Woman, was founded in 2006, and her top-rated cooking show, The Pioneer Woman, premiered on Food Network in 2011. In the years that followed, Ree launched The Pioneer Woman Magazine, a well-loved line of kitchen and home products at Walmart, and a restaurant, bakery, store, and other businesses in her hometown of Pawhuska, Oklahoma. She lives on a working ranch with her husband, Ladd, and has five adult kids who come home for family meals whenever they can!

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    • 4/5
      Okay, I'm a little embarrassed to be caught reading this book, but I was also pleasantly surprised at how well-written, entertaining and funny Ree's book is. She tells you in her introduction that it started out as kind of a lark, writing in her blog about how she met her husband following a 4-year dead-end (for HER) relationship, and the whirlwind, steamy, every day courtship that ensued with her "Marlboro Man" cowboy suitor who would soon become her husband. She's also pretty honest about how she patterned her writing after Harlequin-style romance novels. And that is indeed how her story reads. (Yes, I have peeked into a few Harlequins - BLUSH!) I "know" Ree Drummond through her daily cooking shows on the Food Network, which my wife checks in on almost every day. I'm not a fan of the show, by the way. A bit too nasal, syrupy and cutesy for my taste - and who really cares about cooking anyway? (Not I.) But I bought Ree's memoir, PIONEER WOMAN: BLACK HEELS TO TRACTOR WHEELS, for my wife a few years ago, and just got around to trying it myself. And I made it through over 200 pages of it, before it finally got just a little too redundant - all that endless "Marlboro Man" stuff and how hot and sexy he was, etc. It was kinda surprising to find that she grew up very privileged and wealthy - the middle child of an Oklahoma physician, in a big suburban house on a golf course. And went to college and lived in California for a time, and had planned to go to law school in Chicago, until she met this guy, who quite literally swept her off her feet. And they are still married, twenty-some years and four children later. So I knew how their story ended - like a Harlequin romance, "happily ever after," I'm sure - so far so good, so to speak. Two-hundred plus pages was enough for me. I've got other books waiting. But Ree Drummond is actually a pretty bright woman, who writes engagingly and well, and I'm not surprised her memoir was a bestseller - women would REALLY love her story, I'm sure. Well, obviously they DO, because there are several thousand reader reviews on the book's Amazon page and elsewhere online, and most of them are very positive. And I liked her writing, up to a point. Highly recommended - especially to women, even those who do not number in her legions of fans for her cooking show. Good job, Ree.- Tim Bazzett, author of the memoir, BOOKLOVER
    • 2/5
      Parts of this book were very cute and sweet. I couldn't help but have that warm fuzzy feeling as their relationship blossomed. However, I did think some things were overdone such as the descriptions of the "Marlboro Man" over and over and the preoccupation with clothing and primping among other things. I realize this book is supposed to be the story of how they met and married, but I'd be much more interested to learn in better detail about Ree's adaptation to ranch life. Maybe that will be coming in the next book.
    • 5/5
      I'm not a regular reader of her blog, but I love her cookbook (those cinnamon rolls are TO DIE FOR!). So when her memoir came out, I had to read it. And it was super cute, funny and romantic. Yes, it's fluff, and far from literary, but reading it felt like chatting with a close girlfriend. Ree and I are VERY different - she's really girly, always fretting about looking and dressing just right. Of course, this provides greater comic effect next to her cowboy. This book is SO ROMANTIC. Almost to the point of disbelief - they rarely fight or argue - is any relationship that idyllic? Ree is VERY physically attracted to her cowboy husband, and the descriptions get a bit tiresome. But seriously - such a romantic book. I had a great time reading it.
    • 4/5
      Breaking up with her LA boyfriend, and feeling disenchanted with the city, Ree Drummond decides to move to Chicago. On her way she stops in to spend some time with her parents in Oklahoma. Just before she leaves, she meets her Marlboro Man, and although she is entirely smitten, does she want to drop her dream of the city for a life on a cattle ranch?Obviously she does and the book describes in hilarious detail all that she and he go through to be together. Ree has since gone on to become a well recognized blogger, and this book is the outcome of people wanting to know the story behind this city lover living on the Oklahoma plains with her cowboy. Included on the final pages are a number of recipes guaranteed to satisfy the cowboy in everyone.Breezy, funny, light and heart warming, I enjoyed this story, and although it is considered a non-fiction memoir, I suspect there might be a little glitz and gloss added here and there. Reads like a chick-lit novel, but entirely entertaining and enjoyable.
    • 4/5
      Read from February 03 to 04, 2012Received for ReviewOverall Rating 3.50Story Rating 3.50Character Rating 3.50First thought after finishing: It must be exhausting to be Ree Drummond, she does a whole bunch of over thinking (I mean that in a good way as it makes for entertaining reading)!What I Loved: It is hard not to love a real love story! It was very sweet how she and Marlboro Man courted, got married, and survived a very hard first year of marriage (though that part of the book was rushed--especially since that was the new stuff).What I Liked: Ree, herself, is a hot mess but fun to read. I will admit I don't watch her show, don't visit her website (though I did to look at pictures--very cute family), and didn't know she was on food network. My sister is a fan so I had "heard" about her but didn't know much. The book made me smile at the end so that is all that is important.Last thought: Fans of Ree's website will love this book (I think) but non-fans will find it a cute true love story.
    • 3/5
      If you have never tried a recipe of Ree Drummond's (aka The Pioneer Woman), let me heartily recommend pretty much anything but especially her cinnamon rolls. My family has been enjoying them ever since she posted them on her blog years ago. Drummond is a phenomenal cook and an entertaining blogger. I enjoy my hops by her place on the internet when I find the time and I generally print out a recipe or two to try but I'm not a daily, devoted reader so having the chance to read about how she fell in love with her husband and went from being a big city loving, suburban kind of girl to living on a cattle ranch in the middle of Oklahoma without being chained to my computer sounded very appealing. And her love story is definitely sweet.Leaving Los Angeles and a relationship that wasn't right for her, Ree decided to move to Chicago with a few months at home in Oklahoma to recharge. She moved back in with her parents and set about readying herself for life in the Windy City. One night out at a bar with her friends, she spots a cowboy across the room and is immediately drawn to him with his Wranglers, his prematurely grey hair, and his cowboy boots. Meeting the Marlboro Man that night forever changed her life in ways she never expected. Several months later and mere weeks before her planned move to Chicago, he called her and they went out on their first date. Ree chronicles their budding love affair even as her parents' marriage is crumbling and the tension at home is enough to make her question the reality of lasting love. She also describes the culture shock she faces as she becomes more and more involved in life on a working cattle ranch.It is clear that the bulk of the book was written as short blog posts. There is a lot of repetition both in her descriptions of Marlboro Man physically and in what they do (lots and lots and lots of kissing and cuddling, mixed in with more kissing and cuddling). There was no doubt from the first kiss that he made her toes curl and her ovaries jump for joy and while the constant repetition made it clear how attracted they were to each other, it was a little much at times. The courtship phase of their relationship was definitely more elaborate than the first year of their marriage. In fairness, as Ree suffered from serious, debilitating morning sickness for many of the first months, there probably wasn't a whole lot to tell from that portion of time but it felt a little as if the marriage got short shift compared to the dating.As happy as she and Marlboro Man were (are), sadness and stress did invade their seemingly charmed world but much of it was downplayed and dropped nearly immediately. When Ree runs over her beloved dog Puggy Sue, she is devastated but goes on her date that night anyway. She agonizes over her parents' failing marriage but mainly drops it in the rosy glow of her own love. And when Marlboro Man's aunt dies of breast cancer not long after their wedding, Ree feels out of place and saddened by the family's grief but moves on to other tales almost immediately. Even when their finances take a terrible hit while she and Marlboro Man are on their honeymoon, she glosses over the anxiety and stress that must have dogged them across Australia.Despite the sometimes immature, superficial feel to the emotion, this is still a sweet story about an abiding love and the radical adjustments a person is willing to make for "The One." Ree is funny and just as willing to show herself at her worst as she is at her best. She can laugh at herself, her misconceptions, and the almost unbelievable situations in which she finds herself. Fans of her blog will definitely see the Ree they know and love in this memoir and those who don't know her yet will appreciate her cheerful, girl next door accessibility even if by the end they might yearn for a little less sweet and a little more depth.
    • 4/5
      Ms. Drummond tells the story of meeting, falling in love with, and marrying her Oklahoma cowboy in prose that is exaggerated just enough to provide humor without obscuring the things she learned during the process. I loved the way she talked about her (now) husband - how he was perfect for her and how he taught her to take emotional risks, just by being the kind of person he was. I haven't read Ms. Drummond's blog up to this point, but now I'm curious!
    • 1/5
      I adore the blog but this memoir is nothing like the blog.
    • 4/5
      Mini Book Review: A truly sweet and adorable quirky love story. If you are a fan of her blog, you will enjoy this book as it is a summary of how she met, married and had kids with the Marlboro Man. You would have to be a horrible jaded cynic not to enjoy this honest, classy, yet rip roaring funny tale of how a city girl ends up on a ranch in the middle of nowhere with a cowboy. I really enjoyed her self deprecating way of telling the story -- being honest about the ups and downs without giving up too much personal information. As for the flaws - she obviously isn't a writer as some of the writing style -- well -- its sort of like the way I write and we all know that isn't a compliment LOL! That being said she is charming so you have to let her lack of ability go. Also way too much repetition about Marlboro Mans strong arms, etc -- yes we get it he`s an old fashioned cowboy and you are a city girl. Just a simple sweet story to pass a couple of hours, if you are in a foul mood this will put a smile on your face.3.5 Dewey`sNatasha lent this to me
    • 2/5
      This read more like a "beach book" than a work of nonfiction. The author, a city girl, is home in OK, in between jobs in LA and Chicago. She goes out one night with friends, and falls in love with a mysterious rancher. The rest of the book is a lot of "making out," and her encounters with ranch life. It was OK, but I'm not sure I would recommend it as a pioneer story- more as a true romance.
    • 4/5
      Maybe it's because I'm from Kansas; maybe it's because I, too, could never see myself living on a ranch; maybe it's because I also recently moved home and felt aimless and found myself in a relationship I didn't see coming... but I got sucked into this book! I'm not typically a romance reader but I found this sweet (although sometimes cloyingly). At times, Ree's preoccupation with her vanity and self-deprecation became irksome. Overall, though, it was a cute story that I enjoyed.
    • 4/5
      I can't believe I'm going to say this.... but I actually liked this wholesome, icky sweet, feel good, humorous, romantic memoir. I've seen Ree Drummond on tv several times and checked out her blog due to the controversy surronding her. I agree, she doesn't live a life like most ranchers(contrary to what she thinks) and comes across as very materialistic. I can't count the number of times she mentions the name brands of the clothing shes wearing. BUT I still liked her and this story. Except in the beginning with the incident in regards to her dog. Give me a break ! Your so traumatized by the event that your glued to your bed UNTIL a handsome cowboy comes along, then everythings o.k. Uummm, I don't think so. Once I got passed that fiasco I found myself enjoying the story and even chuckling out loud several times. I loved her sense of humor and think it shined thru in several parts of the story. I will definitely be on the look out for a sequel !
    • 4/5
      I am one of the 2 million people that read Ree's blog so I knew I would like the book. This book will not win the National Book Award for excellence in literature but that is not why I picked it up. Ree's style of writing is folksy, warm, fuzzy, HILARIOUS, romantic (and I don't even like romance novels). It is just like a conversation with your best friend and that is why so many of us love Ree and her famiy. If you want a "feel good" book this is it.
    • 3/5
      More a book of humor than an autobiography or anything else. I had lots of "criticisms" (not literary) while I was reading it: Is Oklahoma really considered the Midwest? How is it possible to live one hour from this man's ranch and make it sound like it was practically another country, a totally different way of life? What was she doing with her days and her life at her parent's house--she simply quit her job in California and moved home for an extended period of time. No job, no money, never did anything all day (until she met Marlboro Man). She WAS going to move to Chicago, but had no job lined up there, either. Very strange. But the exaggerated humor was entertaining, at least. She's not the best writer. I think she's better suited to short pieces (I've read short magazine pieces, and explored her blog.) An easy enough, somewhat pleasant read, but no great shakes.
    • 3/5
      I liked this much better than I thought I would. I've read bits and pieces of Drummond's wholesome website. Her love story is equally wholesome, with a heaping side of fashion advice and unironic self-absorption. She strikes me as fairly ingenuous, and her story has the timeless appeal of a person being swept into an entirely new life by overwhelming love.
    • 3/5
      I am a hopeless romantic. I'm also a bit of a cheeseball (as my family will vehemently attest to). In addition, I can thoroughly understand the lure of Wranglers, and cowboy hats, and cowboy boots, and work-roughened hands. So it was inevitable that I pick up this book.I've been a follower of Ree's blog for a few years now. I picked up her cookbook when it was released and took the opportunity to meet the lady and her sister, Betsy. They were sweet, and perfect. I loved every minute of the five hours I spent waiting for my 30 seconds of hello.I first started reading her love story on her blog about 5 months ago, but I struggled because I like to do my reading lying down, and sitting at a computer doesn't really let you do that. So I was thrilled when I saw her story was picked up by a publisher and that I'd be able to indulge to my pj'd, warm blanketed delight.I'm not going to say this book is filled with some of the best writing out there. I mean, how many times can a guy be described the way Ree describes him. Of course, that doesn't mean I didn't love it every time she did it either (see earlier descriptions of myself). Ultimately, this story is for those women out there who, like myself, love the idea of love and want to also experience a bit of the reality of it. Yes, Ree paints things in an incredibly rosy light when it comes to Malboro Man, but not everything in the story is painted as such. There are laugh out loud humilating moments, moments when she is completedly candid about things that paint her in a less-than-flattering light.. but the story has a ring of truth to it and it gives me hope - not necessarily for myself.. but hope that there are still couples out there that are that madly in love and their children are there to see that example set.This is the perfect story to give that gal in your life (or yourself!) who loves a pure love story. Fun, tear-inducingly hilarious, sweet and everything else it was promised to be.
    • 5/5
      I normally am not a fan of love stories. This one is SO GOOD!! It made me long for the cowboy that got away. It also made me laugh out loud. The best book I have read lately!
    • 5/5
      When Ree Drummond thought of her perfect life, she never imagined it would be the complete opposite of everything she would do and be. Living the life of a city girl in a home that bordered the golf course, her days consisted of country clubs, dancing, and socializing with her girls friends over shopping trips until the day she looked across the bar and saw the cowboy.The complete opposite of all the previous men she had dated in the past and just at the time she was considering a move to Chicago and terminating a long standing relationship, she met Marlboro Man. He was a handsome cowboy wearing cowboy boots, Wranglers and salt and peppered hair. She found herself captivated in so many ways and when she walked over to talk to him, her life would change forever.The Pioneer Woman: Black Heels to Tractor Wheels by Ree Drummond is her personal story of the love story between her and her husband that she affectionately calls Marlboro Man. For those of you who have never heard of The Pioneer Woman, then you need to read this heart warming love story of life on a cattle ranch and all the horror stories that went hand in hand with winning over her heart.Before I read this book, I knew Ree Drummond from her successful blog, The Pioneer Woman wear one will find anything from home schooling tips, to photographs of her life on the ranch, to the most mouth watering recipes anywhere in the world. But a world of caution, once you begin your journey, Ree will become your new best friend. She is a mix between Ethel Merman, Lucille Ball and a little spice from the South all mixed together for a perfect blend of fun loving lady underneath it all. As you read through her latest novel, you feel like your sitting with your friend over cinnamon rolls and coffee on her porch overlooking her cattle ranch as she tells it like it is, no holds barred, and that's what you will love. The same as her readers and fans from all over. She's a real down to earth lady with a heart of gold.I received The Pioneer Woman: Black Heels to Tractor Wheels compliments of William Morrow, a division of Harper Collins Publishers for my honest review and just know that every woman that reads this will find a connection with Ree. The best part is that the book contains some of her infamous recipes that you can enjoy and fall in love with. This one rates 5 out of 5 stars in my opinion and for those of you that love a good romance with a whole lot of laughs along the way, then this is perfect for you.
    • 4/5
      Fun, Lite, Quick... where's my beach??
      The blogger Pioneer Woman wrote her meeting/courtship/marriage of Marlboro Man as a serial blog on her website. This is the collection plus more meat to the story.
      I've enjoyed her website for some time (and the book was given to me) so a no-lose situation.
    • 4/5
      Funny and charming memoir written by "The Pioneer Woman," Ree Drummond. Chronicles her city-girl courtship and early marriage to a cowboy from Oklahoma.
    • 1/5
      Requested this as a review copy, ages ago, because I was familiar with Ree Drummond's story from her blog. I like her recipes, and her photographs of a prairie life. Looks kind of alien to this city girl. So I was curious.

      But reading about her going gaga with love at first sight and melting for the Marlboro Man, was a bit much for me. It felt smug and simpering to read.
      I like reading recipes and seeing her photography better than being inside her head about her relationship.
      I think this wasn't a bad book, just not a good fit for me.
    • 5/5
      Loved this book! It was written in easy read tone. It was a fun book to read. I would start a chapter thinking one would be good before bed, and then found myself every night reading more than one. I was laughing out loud and picturing myself in this situation. A city girl moves to the country to be with the cowboy man she loves. A great easy read!
    • 3/5
      Loved learning about Ree's personal life and how she became the Pioneer Woman. It might only be for fans of her blog and/or cookbooks though.
    • 4/5
      This is the story of the blogger, the pioneer woman, and her romance with "Marlboro Man" the cowboy from Oklahoma she fell in love with and married. It is a good narrative and if you enjoy her blogsite it is fun to read the story of her romance with Marlboro Man.
    • 4/5
      I really liked it. I think it's sort of hard to mess up writing a book about something that happened to YOU in your own life. It was entertaining and I came away happy that the authors life turned out the way it did for her and her family
    • 2/5
      It was kiiiind of terrible...but also kind of charming. I have to love the Pioneer Woman. But the writing here is pretty ridiculous.
    • 5/5
      Delightful story!
    • 3/5
      My wife reads The Pioneer Woman blog and is always talking about her “man in chaps” so when I saw the audio CDs of her new book at the library I decided it might be an interesting book. It was interesting but at times I got tired of listening to the author portraying herself as such a ditz. I understand that the author led a sheltered life of the country club set but I wonder how she planned to live in Chicago on her own. And, of course, if I wasn’t so sure about my own manhood, then the way she describes her Marlboro Man would be real hard on the ego.
    • 4/5
      I must admit to being a little defensive about giving this book four stars — it's not great literature, it's not great writing, it's probably not entirely true, and it's not sophisticated. But it's just fun. If you've read Ree Drummond's enormously successful blog, you know the style (aw shucks, fish out of water city girl on large cattle ranch) and, in fact, have probably read much of the book; about 2/3 has been published on her blog. But Drummond has an enormous readership (over 2 million a month) because of the qualities in this book that are relatively rare. She's unabashedly in love with her husband (who has to be less perfect than she portrays him in the book), has a innate sense of humor and irony that comes out frequently, has a tremendous respect for the men and women who live tough ranching lives and live and die by uncontrollable factors such as weather, avoids politics and preaching, and believes that sex and lust should be tied up with emotion. So, if you're looking for an old-fashioned book that will make you feel warm and cozy, and aren't afraid of indulging in a little unsophisticated country life, this is a warming book.
    • 4/5
      Ages ago, I picked up The Pioneer Woman Cooks while I was looking around for a new cookbook. I can't say I've ever tried any of the recipes, but her stories about life on the ranch stuck with me, so when I saw this one at a book sale for $1 I figured 'why not?' I was in the mood for something memoir-ish to go alongside my monopoly read this morning, so I started this first, thinking to get a chapter or two in before picking up my other book, but not only did I get hopelessly sucked into Ree Drumond's story, it turned out that this was a much more fitting book for the monopoly square I'm on (WaterWorks). This is Ree's story about how she met her husband, the man she adoringly refers to as The Marlboro Man - her very own real life cowboy. I gotta tell you, I wan't even half-way through this book before I was half in love with the man myself. He might be a certified saint in a Stetson. On the flip side, Ree is probably harder on herself in the name of honesty and, likely, entertainment than could be strictly considered fair, but it works; oftentimes hilariously. She creates an incredibly compelling re-telling of her courtship, wedding, honeymoon (omg, what a nightmare honeymoon!) pregnancy, and first year of marriage. I'm not going to claim the writing is outstanding; this definitely has that blog-turned-into-book feel, which it is, but for me, the story transcended any shortcomings in the writing (which, btw, was better edited than most of my reads nowadays). I thoroughly enjoyed it. As Ree spends an alarming amount of time turning on the WaterWorks in the second half of the book, in the form of crying, bawling, sobbing and blubbering (and wow, is it justified), I could not have picked a more tailor-made book for my monopoly square if I tried.

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    The Pioneer Woman - Ree Drummond

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