Picked this up from the Book Thing of Baltimore, Inc. a few weeks back.

Giving this to melydia at a BCinDC meetup. She needs more books to release *G*

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I swear this book is following me. Anyway, I read another copy years ago and this is what I had to say then:

Will Tweedy was 14 years old and living in Cold Sassy, Georgia, in the summer of 1906 when his grandpa came home one day to announce he was marrying a woman half his age, not three weeks after the death of his first wife, Will's grandmother. The town, of course, is scandalized, and continues to be so as the story wears on. This is more of a "slice of life" depiction than much of a story - the author starts with a setting (the town of Cold Sassy) and a premise (Grandpa's new bride), and meanders through clever little anecdotes and asides for a while until the author decides it's time to end the story and starts killing off characters. This is not a bad story, just a fairly standard one. I don't have very strong feelings about it either way. The constant backcountry dialect got kind of old, but I feel that way about all books narrated in dialect so that's not exactly serious criticism. On the other hand, I could hear all the characters in my head with no problem. In the end, if you like this era of historical fiction, you'll enjoy the feeling of living in Cold Sassy; if you prefer more plot-driven stories where everything happens for a reason, you might want to skip this one.

You can bet this is destined for wild release. Ha!

Melydia put this in the wrap-it-up book game for the holiday party, where books are selected based on the first line. However, practically everyone there had read this one (it is a local legend because of Melydia's cosmic connection to it), so it went onto the book buffet. Out of pure generosity -- to prevent Melydia from the unpleasant shock of finding that Nat4Lee had duct-taped this to her car, as threatened -- I volunteered to take it and wild release it over Christmas in Utah. Then we will all follow it and see if it makes its way back to her at some future date.

Just had brunch at this fabulous restaurant with down home cookin' and great homey Christmas decor (I heartily recommend the scones!). Left this little book, in a protective baggie to keep out the cold, in a chair on the outdoor porch in front of the restaurant. Enjoy!

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