Sunday, Dec. 20, 2015--San Antonio
I just finished reading The All-Girl Filling Station's Last Reunion by Fannie Flagg. It's the first book I've read by her although I have known of her through TV and radio appearances for decades and have seen the film version of her book Fried Green Tomatoes. The book I read had scattered moments of great humor that made me laugh aloud, but the book as a whole is not a humorous novel. It's a very interesting tale about what makes a family and includes a wonderful side story related to flying women both as barnstormers and as WASPs during WWII. I gave the book 3 stars out of 4.
Sunday, December 20, 2015
Tuesday, December 15, 2015
The Darling Dahlias and the Naked Ladies
Tuesday, Dec. 12, 2015--San Antonio, TX
I finished reading The Darling Dahlias and the Naked Ladies by Susan Wittig Albert today. Because I have been busy with the holidays, I kept leaving this book and coming back to it. Although the story is a bit intriguing, it so poorly written that it seems a lot like reading a town gossip column in a small-town community newspaper. Furthermore, there is a major plot error in which THE town gossip learns about something, starts spreading the information, and then is never mentioned again even when the conclusion at the end of the book is that everything has been kept a secret in the town. I gave the book 2 stars out of 4.
I finished reading The Darling Dahlias and the Naked Ladies by Susan Wittig Albert today. Because I have been busy with the holidays, I kept leaving this book and coming back to it. Although the story is a bit intriguing, it so poorly written that it seems a lot like reading a town gossip column in a small-town community newspaper. Furthermore, there is a major plot error in which THE town gossip learns about something, starts spreading the information, and then is never mentioned again even when the conclusion at the end of the book is that everything has been kept a secret in the town. I gave the book 2 stars out of 4.
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