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3.75 AVERAGE
3.75 AVERAGE
+30 'but you didn't hear Granny complain about having to trim wicks, and fool with kerosene when other ladies could just pull a ceiling cord to get light'
+42 'what she called her word plants'--the wild flowers she planted bc they had names she liked. Creepin' Charlie, Lizzie run by the fence, love's a bustin', fetch me some icy cause Baby's got the croup...medicinal herbs she used in otions for sick folks: squaw weed, hepatica, goldenseal, ginseng for the brain, jewelweed for poison ivy rash, wolf milk for warts, and fleabane and pale bergamot, which Granny would rub on her ace and arms to keep off mosquitoes and gnats'
+136 'he was a cowboy, all right. i knew by the high-heeled, tooled-leather boots, the big white felt hat, and the pistol in a holster on his hip. When a Cold Sassy man carries a pistol, he straps it across his chest under his shirt and you don't see it. but even as i stood there holding his sweet and lonely words, i heard water going drip, drip, drip into the bathtub. I picked up the wrench a d changed the washer. Nobody was go'n say Campbell Williams was so sorry that he couldn't even fix a faucet. It was a small thing to do for somebody brave enough to put a pistol in his mouth and shoot' *choked up*
+327 'i wished so bad i could of known Uncle Camp for the past 3 years like I knew him now that he was dead'
-29 blocking joke i don't get about turning over so he can get his feet up to her stomach...
2.5 stars
I pledged to read Leaving Cold Sassy for the Book Riot Read Harder Challenge (read a book published posthumously). I tried to read Cold Sassy Tree twenty years ago and fell away a third into it. This time I made it to the end and felt somewhat underwhelmed by it.
Like other readers, the heavy Southern dialect was distracting for me, but overall I found the majority of characters unlikable. One would expect two adult daughters to blanch when their widowed father remarries a month after his wife dies - to somebody half his age - but the actions and thoughts of these people were largely hypocritical. There are themes of faith and family in the story, but apparently faith applies to one's own set of rules.
Despite my "meh" reaction to the book, though, I'll keep LCS on my to-read for 2018, to see what happens next.
I pledged to read Leaving Cold Sassy for the Book Riot Read Harder Challenge (read a book published posthumously). I tried to read Cold Sassy Tree twenty years ago and fell away a third into it. This time I made it to the end and felt somewhat underwhelmed by it.
Like other readers, the heavy Southern dialect was distracting for me, but overall I found the majority of characters unlikable. One would expect two adult daughters to blanch when their widowed father remarries a month after his wife dies - to somebody half his age - but the actions and thoughts of these people were largely hypocritical. There are themes of faith and family in the story, but apparently faith applies to one's own set of rules.
Despite my "meh" reaction to the book, though, I'll keep LCS on my to-read for 2018, to see what happens next.
So good. Finished it in a weekend, and it ended before I wanted it to.
This book was very good. I would compare it to The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.
Wonderful! Such a heartfelt touching book. Placed in Georgia after the Civil War, it speaks of changing times and wonderful small town people. Be prepared to cry through the entire last chapter. A MUST READ!
This is probably more of a 3.5 just because of the beginning of the book. I was expecting the book to mostly be about Miss Love and grandpa and the troubles that ensued with their marriage. Instead in the beginning of the book I got random stories about Will and his friends and other pointless characters. I would have been completely fine if it was made into a shorter book and just had the part about Miss Love and grandpa. The beginning of the book was so boring and it put me in a huge reading slump. I probably would have gave up on this book, if I didn't have to read it for class. I found myself skimming some parts because it had no interest to me. At around chapter 37 or 38 I started really getting into it. After that I really really liked it. Even though grandpa was so much older than Love I really liked them together and I loved the moments when they were talking and very happy together. There was a part in the middle when Love took Mary's trip to New York that I didn't like her, but most of the time I really did. I felt so bad when they kicked her off from playing piano at Church. Speaking of Church, I'm still not really sure what religion they all are because it was talking about a bunch of different ones and it was never very clear. Anyway, I thought it was really sad when Camp killed himself, that was horrible especially when he said there was a problem with him not anyone else. Also it was horrible when grandpa died. I should have seen it coming but I really didn't. Of course right when Love and him were actually together and showing it, he had to die. So like I said, I can't say I loved this book because it was boring for most of the beginning of the book, but at the end, I really did enjoy it.