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OutsmartYourShelf
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Pickpick

**Review contains a slight spoiler about a character's death**

One day, unhappy housewife Evelyn visits her mother-in-law at her new nursing home & gets talking to a resident there called Ninny Threadgoode. Well Ninny talks to Evelyn is more like it, but she starts to tell her about her life in Whistle Stop, a small town in Alabama in the 1920s & 1930s.

OutsmartYourShelf Despite herself, Evelyn is gradually drawn into Ninny's stories about the Threadgoode family especially Idgie, a rebellious tomboy who falls in love with a girl called Ruth Jamison & they open the Whistle Stop Cafe.

I saw the film probably a few years after it was released in 1991 & really liked it but haven't gotten around to reading the book until now.
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OutsmartYourShelf It's a definite case of the film being better than the book & there are some big differences in the ending storyline. In the book, after Ruth's death, Idgie sort of disappears as a character & the reader doesn't really know what happened to her next. There's an epilogue which covers some of it but it was rather disappointing. I did like how Ninny's stories helped Evelyn turn her life around. 3.5🌟
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OutsmartYourShelf TWs: racial slurs & racism (major), domestic violence & terminal illness (moderate), implied cannibalism (hinted at).

Full Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/611915100
Read 18th-20th Nov 2024

#ReadAway2024 @Andrew65 @DieAReader @GHABI4ROSES
#192025 (1987) @Librarybelle
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DieAReader 🤦🏻‍♀️Still haven‘t seen this🎞️ 3d
Andrew65 This one is a classic film. 3d
OutsmartYourShelf @Andrew65 It is. Welcome back! 3d
Suet624 I can‘t tell you how often I‘ve watched that film. 3d
Andrew65 @OutsmartYourShelf Thanks, try to get some normality back one step at a time. 😍 3d
Librarybelle Great book and film! I‘ve seen the movie a few times, and I read the book a long time ago. 2d
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plemmdog
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Dorothy Allison died today. As if this week hasn‘t already been enough. Former Carolina girl, rambunctious out and proud lesbian, powerhouse writer. I was fortunate enough to meet her and hear her lecture twice. She was an inspiration to many. She will truly be missed.

ImperfectCJ I had not heard about her death. Her writing was so influential for me in college and my 20s. 2w
plemmdog @ImperfectCJ me too. I grew up in a lower middle-class family in South Carolina and to see her mention local landmarks and to give voice for so many meant so much to me and countless others. A true pioneer 2w
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SilversReviews
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We all have dreams...some are fulfilled, some are not. Teddi Overman knew she had a talent for refinishing antique furniture even though her mother told her there was no future in it. Her mother wanted her to be a secretary.

This is a must read so you can soak up the depth of, the warmth of, and the beauty of Ms. Hoffman‘s writing, and share in the benefit of her words of wisdom about being happy.

https://tinyurl.com/4dbenz9r

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LapReader
The Member of the Wedding | Carson McCullers
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A successful op shop from the 🏫 hols while my dad ran errands for my nan. The Dior scarf was $3 but the lady behind the counter thought that was too much so knocked it down to $1! A bargain as it‘s hand stiched & rolled towards the front so authentic, I think? The patchwork vest appears to be handmade. The stationery is for #LitsyLove. I realised after purchasing the 👚 that it‘s missing a button but that is an easy fix. The eyelashes are for 🩰

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LeafingThroughLife
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Finch Nobles was burned badly as a child and as an adult lives alone as caretaker of her parents‘ graveyard with only the dead for company. But what company they are - oddly lively and vivid, Reynolds‘ dead manage nature while they tell their stories and wait to get light enough to rise. Atmospheric, mysterious, with a unique main character who is prickly but lovable, this short book made for an unexpectedly good spooky season read. #bookspin

TheAromaofBooks Great progress!! 1mo
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Honeybeebooks
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Pickpick

Glory is a feisty member of a Lafayette Catholic Church & Red Hat Ladies group. She‘s also a bookie working out of a local coffee shop each Sunday. One Sunday she learns of a police call to her best friend‘s apartment. When Glory arrives she finds her Catholic nun friend dead. Glory can‘t shake the feeling that something is deeply wrong and with the help of her daughter begins to investigate even though she has problems of her own. A 4⭐️📖with❤️.

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SilversReviews
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A new town, a new home, a friend you really don‘t want, a blog that tells the town‘s gossip, and Merilee has to deal with all of this along with her divorced husband and his pregnant girlfriend.

Readers of women‘s fiction will again be transported back to the days of Southern hospitality and then brought back to current day with women who keep secrets and have everything and like to flaunt it.

http://tinyurl.com/2zz73wuk

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Reecaspieces This is one of my favorite covers 1mo
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KMCRamsek
Pickpick

As much as I liked this book, I don‘t think I liked a single character

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Blue Calhoun | Reynolds Price
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Mehso-so

This is a difficult book ton review (and to read.) TW for incest and child abuse, I almost gave up on it early on. But Price‘s prose is strong and he manages to make the protagonist, if not lovable, at least pitiable. You have to get all the way to the end to understand why Price is so relentless with details, yet it still leaves a darkness and ick factor that I didn‘t expect from him. Pick for the prose & voice; pan for the protagonist.

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Octoberwoman
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I‘m posting one book a day from my massive collection. No description, no reason for why I want to read it (some I‘ve had so long I don‘t even remember why!). Feel free to join in!

#ABookADay2024