Journal Entry 1 by CrazyDutchwoman from Heemstede, Noord-Holland Netherlands on Monday, March 17, 2008

Loved Angry Housewives eating Bonbons. Planning to read Patty Jane's House of Curl soon and now I discovered this book in the secondhand book store De Slegte here in Haarlem.Could not resist buying even though my house is full of books.

From Publishers Weekly
The author of Angry Housewives Eating Bon Bons cooks up a novel of hard-won luck and the wonder of reaping blessing from calamity. It's 1937, and shy, homely, 18-year-old Violet Mathers—battered by a mother's desertion, a father's contempt and an accident that cost her her arm—has decided to travel from her Kentucky hometown to the Golden Gate Bridge, from which she plans to jump. But when her bus is totaled in North Dakota, she's put up by a warm local family, whose heartthrob son, Kjel, dreams of musical stardom with his black friend Austin, a guitar virtuoso. Pitying Violet, Kjel ropes her into a journey to retrieve Austin's brother, Dallas, a sullen but musically gifted ex-con. By happy accident, the three men fill in for a no-show band at a carnival, enthralling the first of many crowds. As the Pearltones, they soon inspire a mania of Elvis-like proportions, and Violet blooms in their company and proves a savvy manager. Landvik cuts her light, sweet prose with dashes of wryness and pinches of reality: appalled stares, clenched fists and even a burning cross greet the band as they make their way South, while bad apples threaten it from within. Landvik strings the escapades into a playful and poignant narrative, even as a backdrop of Ku Klux Klan violence and Depression-era hardship keeps the fairy tale in check.

My book has a different cover
 

Journal Entry 2 by CrazyDutchwoman from Heemstede, Noord-Holland Netherlands on Friday, April 25, 2008

My third Lorna Landvik read. After Angry Housewives and Patty Jane's House of Curls I felt confident enough to buy this book. Glad I did cause I really enjoyed reading it. From page 1 I was into the story which is great cause lots of times it always takes me a while to get into a book.
8.8

Offered this in the Fort Holders Swap on bookobsessed.

Reserved for Flicki 

Journal Entry 3 by CrazyDutchwoman at By mail in Book Obsessed Swap, A Book Swap! -- Controlled Releases on Monday, May 19, 2008

Released 4 yrs ago (5/19/2008 UTC) at By mail in Book Obsessed Swap, A Book Swap! -- Controlled Releases

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Offered this in the Annual Fort Holder's Swap and flicki in Germany was the one that ended up with it.
Enjoy! I really liked it, hope you do too. 

Journal Entry 4 by Flicki from Emden, Niedersachsen Germany on Monday, May 26, 2008

Thank you so much, Marlene! This book arrived today. I'm really looking forward to it, but I still haven't read a lot of books that I already swapped, so this might take some time!