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The Last Time I Was Me
Cathy Lamb

Kensington, 2008 - 352 pages

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I wrapped up my grandmother's tea cup collection and my mother's china, then grabbed a violin I'd hidden way back in my closet that made me cry, a gold necklace with a dolphin that my father gave me two weeks before he died of a heart attack when I was twelve and, at midnight, with that moon as bright as the blazes, I left Chicago. When Jeanne Stewart stops at The Opera Man's Cafe in Weltana, Oregon, to eat pancakes for the first time in twelve years, she has no idea she's also about to order up a whole new future. It's been barely a week since she succumbed to a spectacularly public nervous breakdown in front of hundreds of the nation's most important advertising and PR people. Jeanne certainly had her reasons--her mother's recent death, the discovery that her boyfriend had been sleeping with a dozen other women, and the assault charges that resulted when Jeanne retaliated in a creative way against him, involving condoms and peanut oil.

Now, en route to her brother's house in Portland, Jeanne impulsively decides to spend some time in picturesque Weltana. Staying at a B&B run by the eccentric, endearing Rosvita, she meets a circle of quirky new friends at her court-ordered Anger Management classes. Like Jeanne, all of them are trying to become better, braver versions of themselves. Yet the most surprising discoveries are still to come--a good man who steadily makes his way into her heart and a dilapidated house that with love and care might be transformed into something wholly her own, just like the new life she is slowly building, piece by piece.

As heartfelt as it is hilarious, The Last Time I Was Me is a warm, wise novel about breaking down, opening up, and finally letting go of everything we thought we should be, in order to claim the life that has been waiting all along.


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By accident

I found this book in my hotel room behind the bed. I read the cover and was instantly hooked. It is by far one of the funniest books I have read in several years. I mean laugh out loud funny. But many of moments are touching and had me in tears. Once I finished I immediately purchased Julia's chocolates and it was well worth its price!!!


MY OH MY! I read 10 books a week and this is a KEEPER!

Go ahead and order her "Julia's Chocolate" (first book) because by the time you finish the first 100 pages you'll want it waiting for you to pick up next. So well developed, characters that you'll wish you could be just like, characters you'll really relate to, you'll laugh and cry, you'll stop to think, you'll learn about yourself, you'll see the movie going through your head as you read, descriptions are amazing -not too long - not too short, why you can smell things as you read for goodness sakes. This is a book that a thinking man would enjoy so my husband gets it next. I won't loan this one out. Literally one of the very best, in my top 10 for sure, written books I've read in a long while. And the way she repeats is such an intelligent way to anchor the readers...makes me wonder if she attended NLP classes. The title evokes an interesting sound from people when you say it...how many of us know "The Last Time I Was Me"?


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Lovely

I immediately bought this book after I finished Julia's Chocolates. Both books are touching and charming, but The Last Time I Was Me is truly precious. The author has a strong voice and her characters are hysterical and relatable. Cathy Lamb has a real talent for developing characters. I can't wait to read her next book.


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I enjoyed this book and found the characters quite enchanting. The story is engaging although rather over the top in parts. I love Cathy Lamb's sense of humor and her unpretentious writing style. I would recommend this to a friend.


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