Blue Jelly: Love Lost & the Lessons of Canning

by Debby Bull

Book Overview

Former Rolling Stone writer Debby Bull recovers from a broken heart by making jelly. Though her boyfriend dedicates a novel to her and then leaves her in the middle of a party she gives to celebrate... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0786862556
• ISBN13: 9780786862559
• Release Date: April 1997
• Publisher: Hyperion Books
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.2" x 7.6"

Customer Reviews

A Recipe for Mending

Simply stated, one of the best books for healing and growth (and humor) I've ever read...well, to be specific, I've ever read 5 times! It's a simple read, yet keeps your eyes glued to its pages; its voice strikes you right to your core and makes you wonder if it wasn't written solely for you! I've loaned it to friends a million times over, and it's never been received with anything less than pure excitement, relief, pleasure, and appreciation. Great writing, great book, great lessons. It's both practical and spiritual, humorous and poignant, insightful and memorable. It's a book you won't soon forget.

Funny, Heartwarming, and Inspiring!

I wish I could write as well as Ms. Bull does. In this quick, yet concise memoir, she manages to capture both the emotions of any 30something woman who goes through a painful break-up, and dead-on characterizations of the personalities whom she meets through her travels. Not many books have made my heart skip a beat, put a smile on my face, and made me want to start reading it all over again. This one did--I highly reccomend it! Can't wait for her next book!

Humorous and upbeat!

I loved the book. Thought Ms.Bull did a great job of telling us the story combined with the recipes. She can write more along this vein and have a faithful following waiting in the wings. I found her humor along the lines of Erma Bombeck. The only reason I could figure out for this other "reviewer" to say that the book was "whining" is because they just don't "get it." If they did, they'd see how funny the book actually is. The recipes are funny, the way she'd write the ingredients and instructions and then had a quirky comment that related to the lost love. Very cute idea.

A gorgeous, gorgeous book

This little book offers so much: beautiful packaging of the hardcover (worth the extra dollars), punchy writing, wry sense of humor and canning recipes even! I love this book. It's the cutest-looking book I own. I wasn't going through heartbreak when I read it, but if I was, it would have given me a lift. Support this wonderful writer, and buy her book.Barbara DeMarco Barrett, writer and host of "Writers on Writing"

I haven't canned yet, but I do feel better

I liked this book a lot. It is well written, honest, wry and off-the-wall in all the right proportions. It is written with real (and tangible) emotion. A friend gave me this book while I was sick. I was in love (and engaged) at the time. Five months later, after having been painfully dumped, I picked it up and read it. I laughed, cried, and nodded in agreement. I was grateful my (ex-) boyfriend wasn't the creep Debby Bull's was. My heart was still broken after reading the book, but I knew I was going to be all right.