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The Olive Season
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Reviews for The Olive Season
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- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Much as expected, as engaging as Drinkwaters first book in the collection but somehow left me wanting more
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Carol Drinkwater's first book about her olive farm pulled me right in and I was delighted to get right back there in this second book in her series. She writes about everything ----landscapes, emotions, people, products, pets as well as making you understand the ups and downs of olive farming. She takes you with her no matter what she is describing. Now I'll gather up the next book...and wait for more beyond that in this never ending story.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5First of all, I haven't read `The Olive Farm' but I will now- to find out how actress/author Carol and her film-producer partner Michel initially came to purchase their own piece of Provencal paradise! Lucky them- I am very envious they own such a wonderful home in such a glorious location, though thankfully I don't think you have to read the first book to get hooked on this one as I got into it straight away.I was first drawn to this book by the seductive picture of the beautiful landscape on the front cover and was hoping it would be a bit like Peter Mayle's type of writing with French food, scenery and customs depicted and thankfully it was very reminiscent of that, only a bit more personal. Despite the difference in countries it was actually more similar to `Under the Tuscan Sun' (one of my favourite travelogues) with the Mediterranean lifestyle practically seeping from the pages, funny anecdotes and glorious descriptions of food and the surroundings interwoven in the text. It's not all bright and sparkly though- there are frustrations depicted with maniacal French bureaucracy as well as small-town corruption, which I found fascinating to read about.Though the book mostly recounts Carol and Michel's journey in trying to have their olive oil specially certified with an AOC, it does touch on other subjects; their unusual wedding in Polynesia, water-divining, bee-keeping and vegetable gardening amongst other things. I particularly enjoyed the details of the vegetable gardening and cooking as these are my hobbies too. It is all recounted in a very down to earth, chatty manner which I welcomed and thankfully didn't seem at all preachy when it went into details of aspects of local history either- or the wealth of detail included about olive farming. There's nothing worse than a travelogue reading like a textbook.Other reviewers of this book have said that perhaps Carol comes across as a bit `celebrity' or a bit smug but I didn't really feel this through the writing at all, though she does talk about Cannes and its festivals in a lot of detail as well as acting parts she has taken on and a few famous people she encounters in some of the exclusive South of France resorts- to be fair, she's a well-known actress and runs her own Olive Farm in one of the most beautiful parts of the world, I would probably be a bit smug too! Good luck to her, she's been through a lot of tough stuff, some of which was encompassed in this book and was really upsetting to read about.For me, the only thing that could have made this book better would have been the inclusion of some of the yummy sounding recipes of the meals that Carol discusses in the chapters. They sounded absolutely delicious! Recommended if you enjoy well-written travelogues or are looking for a novel to take you away to another sunnier place on a dull winter's day. I will be reading more by Carol in future- probably if I go somewhere hot and Mediterranean for my holidays, so I don't feel quite as jealous of her wonderful lifestyle! *This review also appears on Amazon.co.uk*
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5In the second of her series of books, Carol Drinkwater continues her story of her life in Provence near to Cannes, as she and her now husband rehabilitate an olive farm. in this book there is less of the story of the farm (although that's there too), and more of her personal life - dealing with current issues in life, and with those of her childhood and early adulthood. She writes very well, and opens up without giving everything away - the reader's imagination is constantly engaged.For those wanting more on the trails and travails of life in France for outsiders, a subject so many people have covered in the past, this book may not be for you.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Maybe because my expectations were not high, but I found The Olive Season as engaging as its predecessor. In The Olive Season, Carol Drinkwater continues the story of her development of an old olive tree farm in the south of France. Drinkwater marries and soon becomes pregnant. Her pregnancy is difficult, however, and much of the book consists of her worries about pregnancy and writing and her olive farm.
- Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5The second in the trilogy it really lost its flavor, and my interest.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5This sequel wasn't as satisfying to me as The Olive Farm. Ms. Drinkwater seemed to meander around topics while working out her demons related to child-bearing, and it occurred to me that there are several characters who, unless highly fictionalized, were likely most unappreciative of her accounts of them.