Ada's Rules
A Sexy Skinny Novel
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- $11.99
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- $11.99
Publisher Description
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.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
It is impossible not to fall in love with the plucky plus-size heroine of bestselling author Randall's fourth outing (after Rebel Yell). When Ada Howard wife of Lucius "Preach" Howard, the pastor of Nashville's Full Love Gospel Tabernacle (whom Ada suspects of getting love not just from the Lord, but from another woman) receives an invitation to her 25th college reunion, she takes the opportunity to reclaim the thin body she once had, in hopes of impressing her college sweetheart. Ada draws up a list of 53 sensible diet rules, and vows to follow every last one. Rule #1: "Don't Keep Doing What You've Always Been Doing." Randall uses each maxim as a chapter heading, leading readers deeper into Ada's struggle and self-discovery while she drops the pounds. As Ada learns that any meaningful change must be made for one's own self, she inspires and energizes those around her. A heartwarming and engaging read, Ada's story is more than that readers following Randall's rules will drop the pounds along with Ada, and perhaps discover something about themselves.
