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    Ada's Rules: A Sexy Skinny Novel
    Ada's Rules: A Sexy Skinny Novel
    Ada's Rules: A Sexy Skinny Novel
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    Ada's Rules: A Sexy Skinny Novel

    By Alice Randall

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    Ada Howard is the wife of the preacher at Nashville's Full Love Baptist Tabernacle. With a whole congregation to help tend to, plus the kids at the daycare where she works, two grown daughters, and two ailing parents, Ada's busy taking care of a lot of people. She hardly has time to take care of herself. And her husband's been so busy lately she's suspicious some other woman may be taking care of him...


    Then it comes: the announcement of her 25-year reunion in twelve months' time, signed with a wink by her old flame. Ada gets to thinking about the thrills of young love lost, and the 100 or so pounds she's gained, and she decides it's high time for a Health and Beauty Revival. So she starts laying down some rules. The first rule is: Don't Keep Doing What You've Always Been Doing. And so begins a long journey... Ada's Rules is an action plan to change a body and a life -- but it's also about falling back in love with the life you've got.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBloomsbury USA
    Release dateApr 24, 2012
    ISBN9781608198405
    Ada's Rules: A Sexy Skinny Novel
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    Alice Randall

    Alice Randall is a New York Times bestselling novelist, award-winning songwriter, and educator. She is widely recognized as one of the most significant voices in modern Black fiction and has emerged as an innovative food activist committed to reforms that support healthy bodies and healthy communities. She lives in Nashville where she writes country songs.

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      This was a fun book. I liked Ada's list of rules in the beginning and how each chapter was devoted to that rule. Ada spent a lot of money on her diet - DNA testing for herself and her family, many diet books, food programs, shoes and clothes for exercising and the list goes on. I did like that Ada's weight loss goal was a year long process.
    • 5/5
      For anyone who has ever struggled with their weight, or had doubts about their choice in partners, this book is for you. Ada turns 50 and decides she wants to slim down for her 25th college reunion where she will see her first love, Matt Mason. Always faithful to her husband, Preach, Ada is so unhappy about her marriage that she even considers rekindling her old flame. What she finds out about life, love, and herself throughout her journey to lose 100 lbs. is both entertaining and insightful. The climax of the novel was very satisfying and worth the read. Randall's writing style is easy to read and humorous. I romped through the book in one day!

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