Jun 21, 2021Kstobo rated this title 4 out of 5 stars
I'll preface this by saying that I have never seen the film. I really enjoyed the book, which is completely different from my normal reading habits. I'll admit that the antiquated language bothered me a little though I know it was a…
May 15, 2021GreenSquirrel_0 rated this title 5 out of 5 stars
Evelyn’s visits to her mother-in-law at the senior center lead to an encounter with another senior who exuberantly talks away about her childhood. As Evelyn hears about the stories about the brave characters of Ruth and Idgie, she starts…
Jan 03, 2021mynovelesquelife rated this title 4.5 out of 5 stars
4 STARS (1994 review)
I loved the movie!!! I recorded it on VHS when I was in junior high and fell in love with this movie. I would watch it whenever it was playing on television. When I saw that it was based on a book, I had to read the…
Apr 22, 2020AndreaG_KCMO rated this title 4 out of 5 stars
I knew very little about this book and grew...concerned, I guess, throughout the first dozen chapters. The frame story is set in the eighties and partially narrated by an elderly white woman recalling the first half of the twentieth…
Oct 03, 2018anndubois1 rated this title 3 out of 5 stars
Recommended by Michelle B. I liked this book more and more as I read it. It is a folksy story told by Mrs. Threadgoode who tells her life story to Evelyn, a rather depressed and bored woman of middle age. Mrs. T brings her childhood town…
Jun 05, 2018EvelynLouise rated this title 5 out of 5 stars
Being a southern girl, it reminded me of home (Texas). I would listen to my grandmother tell her stories about her youthful days, neighbors & family. I remember a picture she showed me where the "cousin" had a long neck; therefore, she was…
Feb 19, 2018strangerthanfiction rated this title 4 out of 5 stars
I have so much love for this book, be it the tall tales, barbecue, or the proud and powerful women who got things done. There are difficult turns in this story too, since it never shies away from the language and racial violence of the…
Jan 23, 2017SaraLovesBooks rated this title 4 out of 5 stars
I really love this book. The story is told in a non-traditional way, with one story in a linear style, and the other one going back and forth through time, as storytellers are wont to do. It is an incredibly touching story that shows the…
Nov 17, 2016alicat1 rated this title 4 out of 5 stars
A wonderful read that takes us back to the South in the positive ways of hospitality and negative ways of Klan visits.
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Aug 23, 2014robhoma rated this title 3 out of 5 stars
Read the book. Watch the movie. Both are great but different in their own ways. Both stories stand true to the theme of the novel in honoring nontraditional Southern families before television had homogenized society.
Another Bravo for Fannie Flagg. Two women meet in a nursing home. One is visiting. One is a resident. Evelyn befriends Mrs. Threadgood, together they review their lives. Mrs. Threadgood finds her way home, and Evelyn finds her way forward…
Jun 19, 2014lbarkema rated this title 4.5 out of 5 stars
Even though I had watched the movie before, I still really enjoyed this novel. It was sweet, quirky, funny and just a good dose of southern comfort. My only (minor) beef I had was the switching around and sequence of narratives-but it…
Aug 07, 2013artemishi rated this title 5 out of 5 stars
Fannie Flagg is definitely a storyteller. In the style of Garrison Keilor and other "old-time" storytellers, she weaves a story about a town, and the people within it, with graceless ease. Each character has a distinctive voice, and the…
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