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A review by sparklelys
Sing Me Home to Carolina by Joy Callaway
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Loveable characters? Yes
4.0
"[I] thought that maybe getting stuck was the fate of the whole town."
How do you get yourself unstuck personally? And what can you possibly do to help un-stick an entire town? When the whole town thinks the answer is for it to land an NFL contract for the Panthers' new stadium built on its now-ineffective family farmlands, Hattie fights it because all the small-town charm of the region will go away, steamrolling paradise to put up parking lots. Maybe going back to the musical roots of the town will help -- it was founded as "a sort of Camp David for musicians who wanted to get away from the limelight."
I love a story about musicians coming into their own, and I love stories about towns coming together to do big things. (The "Extreme Makeover Barn Edition" going on at Hattie's parents' to make a proper event space is nothing short of amazing.) And as a Baltimoron, having grown up near there in the era of "the band that wouldn't die", I was really pulling for the town to get the team too, if it could be done well. This is a Hallmark-y kind of book in which there may be a lot of *life* going on, but you really pull for somehow, someway, everyone to win.
How do you get yourself unstuck personally? And what can you possibly do to help un-stick an entire town? When the whole town thinks the answer is for it to land an NFL contract for the Panthers' new stadium built on its now-ineffective family farmlands, Hattie fights it because all the small-town charm of the region will go away, steamrolling paradise to put up parking lots. Maybe going back to the musical roots of the town will help -- it was founded as "a sort of Camp David for musicians who wanted to get away from the limelight."
I love a story about musicians coming into their own, and I love stories about towns coming together to do big things. (The "Extreme Makeover Barn Edition" going on at Hattie's parents' to make a proper event space is nothing short of amazing.) And as a Baltimoron, having grown up near there in the era of "the band that wouldn't die", I was really pulling for the town to get the team too, if it could be done well. This is a Hallmark-y kind of book in which there may be a lot of *life* going on, but you really pull for somehow, someway, everyone to win.