 By, George (Susie), I’ve got it! A while back, I read on Susie’s site how much she enjoyed reading Eat Cake, by Jeanne Ray. What a sweet combination, for me. Reading, and eating cake. Need I say more? Well, I will. I ordered a copy from amazon & it came yesterday. I finished it today. It was that tasty. (You’ll have to pardon all the food references, but I do it in my everyday talk, too. It couldn’t be more fitting here.) I was so excited to read it, I ignored the other four books that I’m halfway through.
 This book has made me laugh out loud, & I haven’t done that over a book since Paul Reiser’s Couplehood. And that was ten years ago. In this book, I found the perfect words to sum up my thoughts on food & its comforts in life, “I was nearly asleep…. It was the baker’s equivalent to counting sheep, lulling myself to sleep through spongy discs of jam. There were enough slices of jelly roll for me to shingle the roof, to cover the house, to lay a walkway out to the street. In my dreams I made the house a cake, and inside that cake our lives were warm and sweet and infintiley protected“. Can I please get an amen??? The story is that of a great one, in short: a family going through a mid-life crisis, and cake saves all. Believe it. Its deliciously written with not a single foul word or notion. Just cake.
 I love this book so much, I’ve dog-earred pages already. Even better? It has recipes!!! All the cakes mentioned in the story are reciped at the end. A novel AND a cookbook??? I am in a sugary heaven. Only I don’t know where to put this on my bookshelf. I want to buy a ton of copies to give to every woman I know who enjoys reading. Or baking. Or eating.  I want to bake every recipe in here. “The kitchen was a warm and steamy place that smelled of cinnamon and nutmeg. A tropical rainforest of baking”. Is there a plane ticket I can buy to go there??
Bless you, Jeanne Ray for writing this scrumptious novel. Bless you, SusiePie, for reading this & recommending it.  And now, I’m off to bake.
