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Big Hair and Flying Cows (edition 2005)

by Dolores J. Wilson

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Bertie Byrd is unique. To say the least. She calls Sweet Meadow, Georgia, home, where she works for her father doing auto repairs. She also drives the tow-truck, although Sweet Meadow's rather colorful denizens tend to treat Bertie more like the local, free taxi service. You know, someone has to get to a doctor's appointment or pick something up at the dry cleaners. Bertie's favorite day of the week is Friday, when she leaves the wrecker with her father for the whole weekend and joins her friends at the Dew Drop Inn for a night of dancing. Her best friend, Mary Lou, sometimes fixes her up with dubious dates, although Bertie has to remind her friend not to tease her hair too high for those occasions. Like the time when they went to Carrie Sue's open house, and a ceramic cow with angel wings hanging from a ceiling fan locked its hooves into Bertie's big hair and refused to let go. She had to wear it all night, dangling chain and all. Bertie's nearly perfect life is about to take a downhill turn, however. It starts when her landlord, Pete, currently a resident in a nearby nursing home, starts showing up at her house. In his birthday suit. A very badly wrinkled birthday suit. And then she goes to her mailbox, a rubber large mouth bass, and finds a notice from the zoning commission saying she can no longer park the wrecker in her driveway. The notice is signed by George Bigham. But when she goes to the courthouse to take care of her little problem, it is only to discover George Bigham is deceased. And Mary Lou's pregnancy test just came up positive. Can it get any worse?… (more)
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Title:Big Hair and Flying Cows
Authors:Dolores J. Wilson
Info:Medallion Press (2005), Hardcover, 326 pages
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Tags:fiction, read, 2005/Dec

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Roberta "Bertie" Byrd drives a tow-truck out of Thomas Byrd and Sons Garage. Her brothers left town to join the armed forces years ago and have never come back.....neither wanting to drive a tow truck for life.... The residents of the town use Bertie as a taxi & grocery delivery service. She is roped into singing solo for the church choir, but the choir director has bad intentions. Her neighbors and their children are certifiable...her friends are crazy too!

The back cover of the book states: "...is positively the most hysterically funny book I've ever read. Dolores J. Wilson writes a lugh-until-it-hurts book that will have your sides aching as you turn the pages to see what calamity will befall the long-suffering Bertie next......" --www.romancejunkies.com

Well, I must have missed it, because although I found some parts of the book mildly amusing (like the owner of the house she is renting showing up when he's supposed to be in a nursing home or a dead man signing a notice of removal for the tow truck she parks in her driveway), I sure as heck didn't fall over with side splitting laughter.

The book is very simply written, the plot, if any, never was apparent to me....I couldn't find the "romance" in the book either. For me this was another mindless read....but I did finish it.
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  Auntie-Nanuuq | Jan 18, 2016 |
Bertie drives a tow truck for her father's auto shop in the small town of Sweet Meadow, GA. All she wants is to live a normal life, to find the man of her dreams, settle down, and escape the wrath of her church's Garden Club members. That's not easy to accomplish when the town's residents view her wrecker as a taxi service and will do anything to get a ride. It's not easy when an airplane rolls over her hand, breaking it, and her brother moves in with her while he's estranged from his wife. And it's definitely not easy when the elderly owner and previous resident of her house constantly sneaks out of the nursing home to visit. If she's lucky, he's in his pajamas. After an accident with a mattress makes the national news, Bertie begins receiving threatening letters full of wacky tips from her stalker, Jack. Readers will laugh as she heads downtown to file for a permit to park her vehicle in her driveway, only to discover that the official notices forbidding her to do so were signed by a dead man.
  plyon | Nov 21, 2006 |
Set in rural Georgia, this book about the roller coaster life of a tow truck driving Southern woman and the nutty people in her life is hysterical. I laughed out loud page after page. ( )
  GeecheGirl | Nov 10, 2005 |
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Bertie Byrd is unique. To say the least. She calls Sweet Meadow, Georgia, home, where she works for her father doing auto repairs. She also drives the tow-truck, although Sweet Meadow's rather colorful denizens tend to treat Bertie more like the local, free taxi service. You know, someone has to get to a doctor's appointment or pick something up at the dry cleaners. Bertie's favorite day of the week is Friday, when she leaves the wrecker with her father for the whole weekend and joins her friends at the Dew Drop Inn for a night of dancing. Her best friend, Mary Lou, sometimes fixes her up with dubious dates, although Bertie has to remind her friend not to tease her hair too high for those occasions. Like the time when they went to Carrie Sue's open house, and a ceramic cow with angel wings hanging from a ceiling fan locked its hooves into Bertie's big hair and refused to let go. She had to wear it all night, dangling chain and all. Bertie's nearly perfect life is about to take a downhill turn, however. It starts when her landlord, Pete, currently a resident in a nearby nursing home, starts showing up at her house. In his birthday suit. A very badly wrinkled birthday suit. And then she goes to her mailbox, a rubber large mouth bass, and finds a notice from the zoning commission saying she can no longer park the wrecker in her driveway. The notice is signed by George Bigham. But when she goes to the courthouse to take care of her little problem, it is only to discover George Bigham is deceased. And Mary Lou's pregnancy test just came up positive. Can it get any worse?

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