Carole Radziwill: She's a Real Princess!

[Knuckles]

16 minutes ago, zoeysmom said:

Do I think Carole had a ghostwriter, for her first book? 

The sister-in-law was Terry DeFalco, who is a well-known ghost-writer in publishing, who asked the questions and recorded the answers. If you think there is any similarity in the writing in What Remains, and anything that actually has Carole's hand on it...well, it's a free country and you can believe what you want. 

[shoegal]

Again I say, Fuck You Aviva.

...and to anyone else, especially if you have ever experienced loss or grief, I recommend reading What Remains.  It's a beautiful book and what Carole went through was devastating, and was undoubtedly her story to tell. 

Edited September 9, 2016 by shoegal

[ryebread]

10 hours ago, Knuckles said:

And yes, Aviva was right. 

And way before Aviva said that 'word on the street' was that Carole used a ghost writer, there was already word on the street. We'd just never heard it before.  All though others in the publishing houses, had. 

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This is why Aviva is the biggest bitch in all of RH history IMO, because she did something to Carole that will stick to her FOREVER. 

Carole using a ghost had already stuck.  Carole hated, that now, it had become fodder for speculation on a grander scale through her decision to go on reality TV.  I don't blame her for being upset.  But I don't consider Aviva a bitch for bringing it up. Perhaps if Carole hadn't been so dismissive of Aviva, she wouldn't have gone there.  Not saying tit for tat is right but that's the way these people roll.

Edited September 9, 2016 by ryebread

[LIMOM]

12 minutes ago, shoegal said:

Again I say, Fuck You Aviva.

...and to anyone else, especially if you have ever experienced loss or grief, I recommend reading What Remains.  It's a beautiful book and what Carole went through was devastating, and was undoubtedly her story to tell. 

I have many stories to tell. It does not make me a professional writer.

she wanted to be on tv, that is the cost of fame.

Edited September 9, 2016 by LIMOM

[shoegal]

Just now, LIMOM said:

I have many stories to tell. It does not make me a professional writer.

If you turned one of those stories into a book it would. 

[LIMOM]

Just now, shoegal said:

If you turned one of those stories into a book it would. 

If I was somehow related to the Kennedy I might have a shot  lol

All joking asides, it is the difference in writing styles that makes me doubt Carole.

Unless she suffers from early set dementia, she simply does not sound the same? Imo

[shoegal]

8 minutes ago, LIMOM said:

If I was somehow related to the Kennedy I might have a shot  lol

All joking asides, it is the difference in writing styles that makes me doubt Carole.

Unless she suffers from early set dementia, she simply does not sound the same? Imo

Perhaps it's simply the difference between the first draft and the multiple rewrites that follow. Writing a blog and sending it out probably doesn't follow the same process of spending years writing and rewriting a book. 

 

I personally find Carol's blogs to be clever and reminiscent of her writing style In WR.

Edited September 9, 2016 by shoegal
Siri is a bad ghostwriter

[ryebread]

22 hours ago, ZaldamoWilder said:

Personally, I believe (but don't care) that she and Tom were together more than 5 times.   We all know Sonja is an exaggeratress extraordinaire, but she's also highly suggestible.   As she was trying to remember how often it had been, the rest of em were like was it 15 times, 10? 5?   I think they may have put the number in her mouth (keep the jokes to yourselves) and it's actually higher but at this point it's only twisting the knife for Lu.

I feel the same. Don't care (much) but I believe Tom really did run into Sonja and say, "Look.  I've copped to knocking boots with you.  But you either say it was under 5 times, or it'll cause trouble between you and Lu.  And you'll not be invited to the wedding."

Lu admits that Tom is was a playboy.  If he and Sonja have been friends for 10 years, both single, both horny - I'm guessing it was more than 5 times over all those years.  Yeah, Sonja is an exaggeratress but Tom is a proven liar.  With his pants on fire.  For Housewives.

[ZaldamoWilder]

28 minutes ago, ryebread said:

I feel the same. Don't care (much) but I believe Tom really did run into Sonja and say, "Look.  I've copped to knocking boots with you.  But you either say it was under 5 times, or it'll cause trouble between you and Lu.  And you'll not be invited to the wedding."

Lu admits that Tom is was a playboy.  If he and Sonja have been friends for 10 years, both single, both horny - I'm guessing it was more than 5 times over all those years.  Yeah, Sonja is an exaggeratress but Tom is a proven liar.  With his pants on fire.  For Housewives.

Girl please, they soooooo backed her into a number.   It might not even be 10 years.  It's just years, you don't keep track with a jump off, but 5 times.   He took Ramona out more than that, and that was just dinner.

[psychoticstate]

I don't think anyone is doubting that What Remains is Carole's story.  It is.  I question whether she wrote it without assistance.  I don't think she did.  There's nothing wrong with that, many people do.  Not everyone is a writer, much less a talented one; many people are fantastic storytellers but don't have the time/ability/patience to put it on paper, so to speak.  

I think from what we've seen of Carole in previous seasons, she's not disciplined and she's lazy when it comes to writing.  It can be hard to make yourself sit down, focus and write, especially when you have a job/career and the writing is your side gig.  

I will say that the writing is very different between What Remains and The Widow's Guide.  Obviously two different types of books, two different genres but still.  If I didn't know, I would assume two different authors. 

[rho]

2 hours ago, psychoticstate said:

I don't think anyone is doubting that What Remains is Carole's story.  It is.  I question whether she wrote it without assistance.  I don't think she did.  There's nothing wrong with that, many people do.  Not everyone is a writer, much less a talented one; many people are fantastic storytellers but don't have the time/ability/patience to put it on paper, so to speak.  

I think from what we've seen of Carole in previous seasons, she's not disciplined and she's lazy when it comes to writing.  It can be hard to make yourself sit down, focus and write, especially when you have a job/career and the writing is your side gig.  

I will say that the writing is very different between What Remains and The Widow's Guide.  Obviously two different types of books, two different genres but still.  If I didn't know, I would assume two different authors. 

Yup! Nailed it. I don't really care whether or not she had a ghostwriter. From the looks of it, she was a one-hit wonder. What Remains capitalized on a very vulnerable and very public moment in her life. I think she peaked early and she hasn't bounced back from it and/or doesn't care to. Sounds like RHONY is her paycheck now. I don't know that I would consider her a writer anymore when all she does is blog and tweet. Did she even finish the cookbook proposal?

[jaync]

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I question whether she wrote it without assistance.

Has she ever claimed not to have had any assistance at all, though? It would seem that would be different than using an actual ghostwriter.

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It can be hard to make yourself sit down, focus and write, especially when you have a job/career and the writing is your side gig.  

And if you're hitting the bong all day.

Edited September 9, 2016 by jaync

[StatisticalOutlier]

On 9/8/2016 at 9:52 PM, Knuckles said:

A famous example currently is Donald Trump who never wrote "The Art of the Deal"...the man who did was willing to write it and forgo a byline in exchange for a cut of the profits. Celebrity books are usually produced in exactly this way. 

Less timely, but more hilarious, is that Charles Barkley tried to stop the release of his autobiography because he claimed he was misquoted.

[ryebread]

1 hour ago, tenativelyyours said:

Though I guess that puts him well up the ladder of reality show careers outside of filming above Frances the Mule who can't even write overly derivative stale pop culture referenced chick-lit these days.  Or even a cookbook.  Which, correct me if I am wrong, at least half of that would be recipes which kind of write themselves -- or at least would be written by someone not the professional writer who can't write a...lick.

You would be correct.

It's in the same vein as her gig with Glamour magazine. For a couple years she did a monthly column in which she took a celebrity out to lunch, interviewed them and then 'wrote' the piece for the magazine.  What she was doing was asking them simple questions and they responded. She was basically a transcriber. There wasn't a whole lot of writing happening there.  Like a cookbook, besides the introduction and the blurbs preceding and following a recipe - those interview columns pretty much wrote themselves. The celebrity did 3/4 of the talking, she merely typed up what they said.

Which, isn't a bad thing.  A girl's gotta pay the rent.  She's just easy to bag on because she was up on her high horse about Aviva insulting her craft, that took her decades to hone and how Aviva was a nothing for not working outside the home.  She also insisted that writing a book couldn't possibly be 'fun' or like writing a long email.  Carole is the Queen (or Princess) of illustrating that writing comes in many forms.  Even when there's not even that much actual writing going on. Put up or shut up.

[biakbiak]

Plus, half of her Glamour column was pictures of the lunch. I remember them being linked during the "ghostwriter" fight and thinking they didn't really prove anyones point because they weren't really written.

Edited September 12, 2016 by biakbiak

[tenativelyyours]

Okay, here's the plan, we hit the offices of Henry Holt, take them out for heavy drinks while their offices are filled with 'laughing gas'.  Take them back to stew a bit and then go in and start grilling them.  There was some serious shit going down there when her chick lit book was originally scheduled to come out, advanced review copies were even sent out and then *poof* the book got pulled and then finally re-scheduled. I so wish I had run to Houseworks Cafe when a couple of people reported on TWOP (or was it here) that arc copies were on sale. The initial arc copies.  I heard they did readings of them at NYU at a party that was put on YouTube but can't find it. 

 

Henry Holt&Co. is all smiles and shrugs now, but you'll note she never wrote that followup book to the one that took so long and hard to come out.  And had to repay them their advance I believe.  All of it.  So it wasn't a halfsie for the book she did deliver and was tepidly received by its most generous of readers.    There was commentary about her in regards to her having a ghost writer for her memoirs simply because the first arcs were said to be so trite and amateurish and derivative and yet so out of date that when the book was put up for auction it was thought to be a working for The Carrie Diaries.  A failed working.  So I can still loathe Aviva and figure she could exaggerate the hell or twist something but she also could well have spoken the truth.

[NewDigs]

7 hours ago, tenativelyyours said:

There was some serious shit going down there when her chick lit book was originally scheduled to come out, advanced review copies were even sent out and then *poof* the book got pulled and then finally re-scheduled. 

Wow. Have worked as bookseller/buyer quite a bit over the years and that's a new one on me. An ARC usually means, How many do you want?, not, Ya' think this might sell? I think they're already on the order form? (been a while)

I'd love to know more.

How she is unable to cobble together a cookbook is a mystery. Adam's photos of his food are gorgeous and could take up a lot of page space. Run the recipes through some kind of plagiarism software, stir in some personal anecdotes and voilà! 

Did she get another advance for the cookbook?

[HunterHunted]

Why are we assuming that there are recipes to turn into a book?  Adam has done nothing to indicate that the cookbook is a priority for him.

[NewDigs]

6 minutes ago, HunterHunted said:

Why are we assuming that there are recipes to turn into a book?  Adam has done nothing to indicate that the cookbook is a priority for him.

FWIW he's fairly active on Instagram and even posts some kind of cool "cooking" videos. Complete with tunes. His food photog. is beautiful.

I'd have to say that, imho, Carole is a bigger part of the cookbook hold up.

[HunterHunted]

I've commented a ton on his food photography.  I think it's lovely, but it's not like everyone of his photos is accompanied by a detailed recipe. Having to go back and recreate recipes for everything could be quite a daunting task. And yet even for a cookbook, Carole is only going to be responsible for a handful of pages. Adam is responsible for hundreds of recipes. They've had a handful of scenes where they talked about the cookbook and nothing from Adam indicated that there was any urgency in getting the cookbook done. Nor was there anything that indicated that he was waiting for Carole to finish her part. Increasingly I get the sense that the cookbook is Carole's idea and project and Adam has reluctantly gone along with it. I don't think he's finished all of his recipes or anything that would be his part of the project.

[NewDigs]

True dat. ^^^

I think I got carried away watching one of his videos but I don't know that it even had an ingredients list beyond the visuals.

I'm kinda' easy when it comes to food porn.

Oops, countdown to Bethy lawsuit.

[HunterHunted]

Ha!

I find his food dabbling to be so unfocused and lacking in direction. He's got his central American farm, his grow box, his instagram pictures and videos, his trainer and nutrition business, his chef consulting, his private cheffing, the cookbook, and he's still never managed to go to culinary school.

I think he should just be a food stylist or photographer because he's got real skill. But he seems to have this amorphous desire to bring healthy food to marginalized people. I think there are charities that could use his skills and passion, but on his own he comes across like a pampered dipshit.

[biakbiak]

3 hours ago, NewDigs said:

Did she get another advance for the cookbook?

No. They couldn't even get it together to shop a proposal.

[tenativelyyours]

8 hours ago, NewDigs said:

Wow. Have worked as bookseller/buyer quite a bit over the years and that's a new one on me. An ARC usually means, How many do you want?, not, Ya' think this might sell? I think they're already on the order form? (been a while)

I'd love to know more.

How she is unable to cobble together a cookbook is a mystery. Adam's photos of his food are gorgeous and could take up a lot of page space. Run the recipes through some kind of plagiarism software, stir in some personal anecdotes and voilà! 

Did she get another advance for the cookbook?

 

Let me clarify.  Housing Works Bookstore Cafe (not houseworks like spell check thinks it should be!) is a non-profit bookstore/cafe that a couple of reviewers with the tacit permission of publishers donate their advanced copies to as the store/cafe is a non-profit to help those with HIV/AIDS.  So Holt had sent out their review copies for what was, I believe, a September release.  So the ARCs had been out long enough for reviewers to get them, vet them or not and pass them on to the bookstore.  Then the book was unscheduled for a couple of months.  Even actively removed from Amazon which is rare -- often, especially just a few years ago, Amazon only removed old links that were now 'dead' if the publisher contacted them.  Many times it can linger -- anyone who reads speculative fiction knows how many listings there were with George R. R. Martin's next book or the mythical Melanie Rawn's Captal's Tower. 

Then all of the sudden there were new arcs out.  New.  Different.  And an egalley on Netgalley.  This was about six months later.  It was pretty weird that all the promotional review material was made, sent out and then Holt pretended like it did not exist.  Instead sending out new arcs for review.  Again I so want to get my hands on an original arc to see just how bad it had to have been.

I'm unimpressed with Adam's social media culinary "career".  I've seen people who love to over share snap just as appetizing and inviting food on their instagram under "what I made for dinner".  *Yawn*.  But he should have a repertoire of dishes by now.  Though maybe they should just call it one salad; 101 Variations and a Mule on bicycle handlebars. Pics are all there already.

Edited September 12, 2016 by tenativelyyours

[NewDigs]

38 minutes ago, tenativelyyours said:

So Holt had sent out their review copies for what was, I believe, a September release.  So the ARCs had been out long enough for reviewers to get them, vet them or not and pass them on to the bookstore.  

This is the part I was mainly speaking to. ARCs end up all over the place, in spite of the publishers' admonitions to keep them within the industry. Some are actually collectible and valuable.

As you said, those ARCs have covers printed with what kind of publicity and advertising that the publisher is investing in that title. Bookbuyers get boxes and boxes of the things. (I miss that job) They're a really big deal to publishers. Big investment. 

Very unusual. Almost has to be a legal issue. A mystery!

What was this thing's title?

Edited September 12, 2016 by NewDigs

[zoeysmom]

34 minutes ago, NewDigs said:

This is the part I was mainly speaking to. ARCs end up all over the place, in spite of the publishers' admonitions to keep them within the industry. Some are actually collectible and valuable.

As you said, those ARCs have covers printed with what kind of publicity and advertising that the publisher is investing in that title. Bookbuyers get boxes and boxes of the things. (I miss that job) They're a really big deal to publishers. Big investment. 

Very unusual. Almost has to be a legal issue. A mystery!

What was this thing's title?

One title was something to so with Liam Neeson.  I notice she has removed it from her Wiki page.

[NewDigs]

25 minutes ago, zoeysmom said:

One title was something to so with Liam Neeson.  I notice she has removed it from her Wiki page.

Oh god. Waiting for Liam Neeson.

What the...?

[Petunia13]

I actually am not impressed with Adam's food pics. I have a few yelpers on my friends list or ones I know (but aren't friends lol) who are better. 

 

That pic above Carole looks like Caitlyn J

Edited September 12, 2016 by Petunia13

[Celia Rubenstein]

Is that a real book?  Please say it's just a joke.

That link in your post just returns me to this page, NewDigs.  

[NewDigs]

7 minutes ago, Celia Rubenstein said:

Is that a real book?  Please say it's just a joke.

That link in your post just returns me to this page, NewDigs.  

Hope this works.

There are maybe half a dozen copies available in the UK. Each over $160.

[Celia Rubenstein]

Thanks, that worked!

Several reviews suggest Carole's book is basically a compilation of her blogs which are available online for free.  I looked at the preview and it appears the reviews were right. After a brief intro, she just reprints her first blog post. LOL. I didn't bother to go any further.  It bored me then and it bored me now.  CLicK! I have better things to do with my time and MUCH better things to do with $160.

She really should be flogged for having the word "madcap" in the title. She is trying to make herself sound so *over it* and casually jaded.  But it just sounds smug.  I think the whole thing was not so much about writing a book about her experiences as much as an excuse to promote that picture of her in her red pirate suit trying to look all sultry, lol. Either that or a quick cash-making scheme so she could get the money to pay back her book advance.  Well, she just looks silly in her little pose, trying way too hard.  And I would be surprised if her "book" made fifty bucks.  Which would be forty-nine more than she deserved. 

[WireWrap]

27 minutes ago, NewDigs said:

Hope this works.

There are maybe half a dozen copies available in the UK. Each over $160.

This was written just under the price of the book......."A complete series of Carole Radziwill's weekly blog for the Bravo hit TV reality show the Real Housewives of New York. It includes a new introduction and letter from the author."

So, it is nothing more than her Bravo blogs and that's it. LOL I guess it is only sold in the UK because Bravo wouldn't allow her to sell it here in the states. Sorry, I kind of like Carole but.......maybe not so much now, this is a rip off IMO.

[tenativelyyours]

3 hours ago, NewDigs said:

This is the part I was mainly speaking to. ARCs end up all over the place, in spite of the publishers' admonitions to keep them within the industry. Some are actually collectible and valuable.

As you said, those ARCs have covers printed with what kind of publicity and advertising that the publisher is investing in that title. Bookbuyers get boxes and boxes of the things. (I miss that job) They're a really big deal to publishers. Big investment. 

Very unusual. Almost has to be a legal issue. A mystery!

What was this thing's title?

 

I'm not sure the title was any different 'The Widow's Guide to Sex and Dating".  I do seem to think it had a longer subtitle in the promotional material of the first attempt to release.  Because it made the book sound a lot more "memoir" ish if that makes sense.  Which might have been part of the issue.  I so wish I had plunked down the 6 bucks for the book.  That was back when HousingWorks charged six bucks for every arc no matter who it was by.  I stopped in there once right after a huge pile of arcs had been donated and walked out with a couple of months bestsellers that were also a couple of months from hitting shelves.  Twenty books for under 150 bucks.  I was thinking the whole time that I would be arrested for some kind of fraud when I walked out of the place. 

Yeah that blog book makes it sound like she was only with the show a year and then got out and above the tawdry little mess.  Instead of digging down and burying herself in her own shit for the cameras.    Yet it also has 'season five' on the cover which makes it sound like when she marketed this idea she already planned on another madcap adventure entry.  She really is a pretentious twit. 

[NewDigs]

It's an oddity. So few copies.  Such high prices. Published by Radziwill Press  2012

Wonder who chose the cover art.

[Celia Rubenstein]

3 hours ago, NewDigs said:

It's an oddity. So few copies.  Such high prices. Published by Radziwill Press  2012

Wonder who chose the cover art.

Well, a book written by Carole Radziwill, published by Carole Radziwill.   I am guessing Carole Radziwill chose the cover ???

Edited September 13, 2016 by Celia Rubenstein

[NewDigs]

10 hours ago, Celia Rubenstein said:

Well, a book written by Carole Radziwill, published by Carole Radziwill.   I am guessing Carole Radziwill chose the cover ???

Ha! lol

I was wondering if it was some kind of bootleg. Someone "dummied" up her blog, slapped bogus info on it, complete with, imho, unflattering picture, and tried to sell it. Only in the UK?

Anyone remember this thing?

[zoeysmom]

41 minutes ago, NewDigs said:

Ha! lol

I was wondering if it was some kind of bootleg. Someone "dummied" up her blog, slapped bogus info on it, complete with, imho, unflattering picture, and tried to sell it. Only in the UK?

Anyone remember this thing?

I remember when it first came out people commented on how very Carrie Bradshaw of Carole.

I believe one season she was not allowed to blog, just interview from time to time for her book of essays.  Here is an article from 18 months ago about Carole's book of essays-the one that would be released this year.  http://www.bravotv.com/the-daily-dish/has-carole-radziwill-finished-her-next-book

Does this make Carole a liar?

[Ki-in]

I still can't get over the fact that she bought a cashmere coat for a vegan! It doesn't get any more stupid than that. She clearly has not paid any attention to her boyfriend's lifestyle and what it means to be a vegan. She is just so dumb and full of herself and laughs too hard at her own lame jokes. Unfortunately I don't think shes' going anywhere but I can't see her really interacting with any of the cast besides Bethenny since she thinks she's above them all.  We saw the real Carole this season and I can't see how she will redeem herself and act like a decent human being after her horrid behavior and delusional thoughts on her age and looks.

[HunterHunted]

Did said vegan say "no thanks, it's a cashmere coat and I'm a vegan"? If she bought it, gave it to him, he had it, and gave it back based on his beliefs, then good for him for keeping with his principles and shame on Carole. If he kept it, then shame on Adam.

 I'm just curious about this because I don't remember it from the show. Doesn't mean it didn't happen. Do we know what motivates Adam's veganism? Ethics and morality? Or health? 

[Ki-in]

She mentioned in the Berkshires that she had to return the cashmere coat she bought him because he wasn't down with it. We never saw her give it or his reaction but I'm thinking it was another WTF moment like when she couldn't work the blender.

[NewDigs]

7 hours ago, zoeysmom said:

I remember when it first came out people commented on how very Carrie Bradshaw of Carole.

I believe one season she was not allowed to blog, just interview from time to time for her book of essays.  Here is an article from 18 months ago about Carole's book of essays-the one that would be released this year.  http://www.bravotv.com/the-daily-dish/has-carole-radziwill-finished-her-next-book

Does this make Carole a liar?

A liar and a thief! (if she kept her advance) The bar's pretty low for the Hos. lol

She must have sold very few of those blog-things. Normally there are tons of even less than popular titles available on the secondhand market. There aren't even any on eBay! She really stunk it up.

Not a vegan and had no idea about cashmere. There are "free-range" cashmere goats that some feel are cruelty-free. Seems there's a fine line in vegan-wear.

Not  sure how long Adam and Carole have been together but I think I would have figured out where that line is pretty quickly.

[Ki-in]

I think if it comes from an animal at all then it's a no-no for a vegan. Maybe they are allowed to use animal manure in farming but not sure. No eggs, honey, wool, silk etc.

I wonder what their stance is on pests infesting a home like cockroaches and mice.

Edited September 13, 2016 by Ki-in

[tenativelyyours]

I still think the whole unable to blog was something she either pulled out of her ass ir had her editor write a note in letterhead that wasn't actually a legal document to show her producers.  That smells awfully fishy to me.  A couple of blog pages a week during the airing of seasons is not going to get in the way of a writer the publisher has enough faith to send an advance to.

 

However.  It does comes after this ridiculous publication (it looks like it was initially on demand).  If there were any issues with her publisher and her blogging it might have stemmed more from a legal mandate to not try to sell any more writings that her contract precluded sales of prior to the publication of the book that now can be called "Never Was".  I would so love to see whatever restrictions her publisher placed on her that BRAVO gave her a pass with writing a blog.  Did it allow twitter?  How long were her emails allowed to be?  Could she do a Christmas Letter?  I would not be surprised at all if her publisher got testy enough to formally contact her about this blog book that came out after the first season and she used that to get out from doing a blog entirely.  She is lazy as fuck it seems.  The only thing she can be bothered to do is get injections and pose on instagram for a potential Lady Viagra ad campaign with her hipster boyfriend.   And the first she can take a cab and then pretty much lay down for most of the time.  Watching this season, you would have to do some mighty hard selling to convince me she gets to lay down much in regards to the latter.   So far this season Adam has treated her like the new step-mother he still doesn't know whether to call 'Carole', 'Mom' or just 'umm, hey you'.

[Celia Rubenstein]

3 hours ago, Ki-in said:

I think if it comes from an animal at all then it's a no-no for a vegan. Maybe they are allowed to use animal manure in farming but not sure. No eggs, honey, wool, silk etc.

I wonder what their stance is on pests infesting a home like cockroaches and mice.

Yeah, that's the way it is theoretically supposed to be ... no eggs, no silk etc.  I gave my vegan daughter toast last week that she thought tasted suspiciously sweet and I laughed at her as she rifled through the trash to find the wrapper.  Turns out the bread had honey in it.  She was ticked, lol.  I tried to tell her that the bees LIKE to give us honey, it makes them happy.  She was unmoved. 

However she just spend a fortune on natural products to kill the fleas that hitched a ride on her little dog and set up housekeeping in her apartment. She ruthlessly slaughtered those poor creatures!  I have seen her catch a spider in a tupperware and release it into the yard, though.  I guess the line is when a creature actually starts biting you (or your pup) that's where you draw the line ????  I will ask her for clarification on this point. 

[Almost 3000]

Baby Dog the Doodle Blogs:

https://www.instagram.com/therealbabydog/

Baby is one really cute dog.

[Ki-in]

 Freddie Prinze Jr. has just released a cookbook but a best selling "author" and her hipster bf can't get past one line of drivel to finish theirs?

[HunterHunted]

1 hour ago, Ki-in said:

 Freddie Prinze Jr. has just released a cookbook but a best selling "author" and her hipster bf can't get past one line of drivel to finish theirs?

Probably because he had a passion for it just like Chrissy Teigan and Ayesha Curry.

Adam really does not appear to be into the cookbook and Carole's motivation for pushing the cookbook seems to be because she is a little embarrassed by both by their age difference and Adam's lack of ambition. I feel like Carole thought the cookbook would be like the food version of her collected Bravo blogs book. I think she assumed that she'd write a handful pages for the intro and for the beginning of each chapter, Adam has a ton of pictures already up on Instagram, Adam would collect his recipes, and in no time they'd have a book. I don't think Adam has even put a minute worth of thought into the cookbook. If he had any passion for the cookbook and Carole was the hold up, he just finish it without her mainly because what is expected of her in the book is so minimal compared to what is expected of him.

The fact that there is no cookbook says to me more about Adam and less about Carole. We all know Carole doesn't cook. Even if she's finished all of her pages, that leaves her with what 5 to 10 pages about how they fell in love, how she's a junk food junkie, and how he's taught her about vegetables. That's not a book, that's a Redbook article and they would probably want a recipe or two for the article.

[ryebread]

7 hours ago, quaintirene said:

On another topic, now that the book stuff seems to be over, I'm finding Carole much easier to tolerate...

You might want to stay away from her Twitter page, then.  She's coming off as a ragey mess.  She's getting killed over there and calling her followers names again.

https://twitter.com/CaroleRadziwill

Way to be tolerant, Radzi.

[breezy424]

Carole had an amazing career at ABC.  I give her full credit for it.  The competition is fierce. 

What happened?  The death of her husband certainly changed her.  She wrote a very compelling story of Anthony and what they both went through.  And then...  Carole, to me, seems like a lost soul that has no direction or ambition.  Some would call it laziness.  And I don't disagree with them.  In many ways, she's become a 'pretender'. 

[Juneau Gal]

13 hours ago, breezy424 said:

Carole had an amazing career at ABC.  I give her full credit for it.  The competition is fierce. 

What happened?  The death of her husband certainly changed her.  She wrote a very compelling story of Anthony and what they both went through.  And then...  Carole, to me, seems like a lost soul that has no direction or ambition.  Some would call it laziness.  And I don't disagree with them.  In many ways, she's become a 'pretender'. 

That is really beautifully put, breezy. 

I have never been a Carole fan, I simply don't buy what she is trying to sell about herself. I fiercely defended her however during book-gate and now fear my efforts were misplaced. Mental health professionals say that people often stop personally evolving after a trauma; they simply stay forever the person they were before the event. I see this in Carole. She is desperately trying to be that 36 year old she was before tragedies occurred. It just doesn't play well on TV for a 53 year old. All credit to her though for what she did accomplish in her career and for attempting to carry on.