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... "a" after a number so you can see where it belongs:
Book of Negroes or Someone Knows My Name - Lawrence Hill - 6a
Cold Sassy Tree - Olive Anne Burns - 28a
Bergdorf Blondes - Plum Sykes 62a
The Sleeping Beauty - Adrienne Sharp 24a ... needed to get reacquainted with the story, and then finished Widows.
On the Line by Serena Williams with Daniel Paisner
Cold Sassy Tree by Olive Ann Burns
The Shipping News by Annie Proulx
When You Are Engulfed in Flames by David Sedaris
Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader by A ... >157 Absolutely LOVED Cold Sassy Tree; read it many years ago. >157 mcollier - I read Cold Sassy Tree in high school and absolutely loved it! Fantastic book!
I finally pulled The Wayfarer Redemption Book 1 of that series off my shelf. Hopefully I'll actually have some time to read between all the assignments I have coming due in the next few weeks! I ... I'm reading The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane, Reality Check by Peter Abrahams, and Cold Sassy Tree by Olive Ann Burns. ... as an alternative:
One of the best collections of short stories: Ship Fever by Andrea Barrett
A totally fun book: Cold Sassy Tree by Olive Ann Burns
A really good SF book written in/about the 70's in which an African American woman keeps getting yanked back in time to a plantation ... Cold Sassy Tree by Olive Ann Burns ... half my inventory is still stuff I put up in the first twoish months, though. There are fifteen copies of my edition of Cold Sassy Tree (BookMooch has plenty of editions) and the only person who has it wishlisted is waaaaay inactive. Cold Sassy Tree by Olive Anne Burns #34 - I'm so glad that I finally read Leaving Cold Sassy. It has been a few years since I read the prequel Cold Sassy Tree. It's so tragic that the author died before being able to finish the book, however, the second half of the book with reminiscences by Katrina Kenison were very enjoyable. ... Hang a Thousand Trees With Ribbons: The Story of Phillis Wheatley, by Ann Rinaldi
Cold Sassy Tree, by Olive Ann Burns
Cold Mountain, by Charles Frazier
Mountain Top Mystery, by Gertrude Chandler Warner
A Murder for Her Majesty, by Beth Hilgartner I'll nudge Bel Canto. I really enjoyed it. I'll also un-nudge Cold Sassy Tree. I did not like it at all. I'll nudge-ish The Namesake and The Secret History. Both are on my TBR list. I will nudge Cold Sassy Tree, but you should know that it is the only one on the list that I have read, and I read it quite a while ago. It is a somewhat humorous look at small-town life.
--BJ ... Canto by Anne Patchett
7.Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner
8.The Brothers K by David James Duncan
9.Cold Sassy Tree by Olive Ann Burns
10.Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson
nudge away....... Im all ears ;)
Fahrenheit 451, by Ray Bradbury
Cold Sassy Tree, by Olive Ann Burns
Cold Mountain, by Charles Frazier
A Breath of Snow and Ashes, by Diana Gabaldon
Belle Weather: Mostly Sunny With a Chance of Scattered Hissy Fits, by Celia Rivenbark Cold Sassy Tree by Olive Ann Burns; book club read a few years ago The Family Tree, by Carole Cadwalladr
Cold Sassy Tree, by Olive Ann Burns
Stone Cold, by David Baldacci
A Song of Stone, by Iain Banks
Warrior's Song, by Catherine Coulter Cold Sassy Tree, by Olive Ann Burns
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, by Betty Smith
Nothing is Quite Forgotten in Brooklyn, by Alice Mattison
The Forgotten Garden, by Kate Morton
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, by John Behrendt The Spy Who Came in From the Cold, by John Le Carre
Cold Sassy Tree, by Olice Ann Burns
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, by Betty Smith
Motherless Brooklyn, by Jonathan Lethem
Righting the Mother Tongue: From Olde English to Email, the Tangled Story of English Spelling, by David Wolman ... Enger
98. Lost and Found: A Novel by Carolyn Parkhurst
99. In the skin of a Lion by Michael Ondaatje
100. Cold Sassy Tree by Olive Ann Burns also read part of Return to Cold Sassy but didn't finish.
101. 90 minutes in Heaven by Don Piper
102. The Bonesetter's Dau ... Finished reading Cold Sassy Tree last night. An interesting book with great social points, but the fact that the entire book was written in Southern dialect made it really difficult to read.
18/75 completed Finished Cold Sassy Tree last night. An interesting book, I guess. It was assigned for class, and while the soap opera-like events were fun to follow and it made some great social statements, I have a deep dislike for books written in deep South dialect, so that made it really hard to read. Plus, ... ... it (largely because of the knee-jerk negative reaction I had when he first brought it up, because he compared it to Cold Sassy Tree). I was pleased to find that it didn't really sentimentalize the small-town life described therein; it just used it within a larger philosophical framework. ... #68 I read Cold Sassy Tree within the last year, at the age of 50+. I really enjoyed it.
I recently reread A Tree Grows in Brooklyn having read that at 16 or 17 and I really enjoyed it a second time. #66 mckait, I read Cold Sassy Tree when I was about 17, and I've often wondered if books I really loved when I was younger I would love if I read them now. A few years ago my book club read The Mists of Avalon because many members had loved it years ago. This time around we all decided it was ... ... else, I guess. That makes the true gems and true craft all the more special.
Years and years ago I read and loved Cold Sassy Tree by Olive Ann Burns. The unfinished sequel, Leaving Cold Sassy contains the beginning of the sequel, author notes for some of the rest of the story, a ... ... gerac
5. The Prestige
6. The Dante Club
7. The Caine Mutiny
8. Cold Sassy Tree ... and fun! Then it will be on to Un Lun Dun and the first of Elizabeth Knox's dreamquake books. I'm listening to Cold Sassy Tree which we have only recently added to our audio collection. Loving it!
... Holland
The Duchess of Bloomsbury Street by Helene Hanff (a triple!)
How Green was my Valley by Richard Lewellyn
Cold Sassy Tree by Olive Ann Burns Olive Trees and Honey
Cold Sassy Tree by Olive Ann Burns
Five Little Peppers and How They Grew
Peeling the Onion by Wendy Orr
R is for Radish > 130 ooops - sorry! Because I hardly found ANY Viragos, I forgot to post here. But slightly off-topic, here you go...
For BookCrossing purposes:
The Faber Book of Parodies (Bookends) - to share a v funny Iris Murdoch one with the Murdoch A Monthers
Andrea Levy - Small Island (Castle Booksh ... ... Clarke
Space by James A. Michener
The Bonfire of the Vanities by Tom Wolfe
Forgetfulness by Ward Just
Cold Sassy Tree by Olive Ann Burns
A Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley
Until next time... Cold Sassy Tree by Olive Ann Burns Leaving Cold Sassy by Olive Ann Burns #67I have read Cold sassy tree & The lives of girls & women Also read Circle of friends & Kristin Lavransdatter I 'm preparing to read the new translation of Kristin Lavransdatter which won the Nobel prize. Not all books can be Nobel prize winners.(though I would give one to Alice Monroe ... I'm having a problem with the literary quality of some of the selections on the list. Cold sassy Tree, Circle of Friends and Ellen Foster are not in the same class as Kristin Lavransdatter, The Lover, or The Lives of Girls and Women. The light, popular novels are hardly "Great Books" ... ... US)
Childhood, Nathalie Sarraute (memoir, trans. from the French)
Circle of Friends, Maeve Minchy (novel, Ireland)
Cold Sassy Tree, Olive Ann Burns (novel, US)
Daddy was a Number Runner, Louise Meriwether (novel, US)
Early Spring, Tove Ditlevsen (autobiography, trans. from the Dani ... ... read & funny, Ann Tyler'searly works,serious stories but optomistic, Charles Baxter The feast of love Olive Ann Burns Cold Sassy Tree Jon Hassler The love hunter All of Garrison Keillor's Lake Wobegon stuff. ... books that I discovered (and enjoyed) this year through my online connections:
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
Cold Sassy Tree by Olive Ann Burns
The Road by Cormac McCarthy
The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield
Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Chil ... 45) Cold Sassy Tree by Olive Ann Burns (review)
My progress so far, as of July 29:
 ![]() ... reading The Broker by John Grisham. Next up: The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio by Terry Ryan.
#21 I read Cold Sassy Tree this year and really liked it. I also read A Painted House both narrated by young boys from the south and both very good. I am about half-way through Cold Sassy Tree by Olive Ann Burns, which is quite enjoyable so far. Hopefully, by the time I finish, I will have received my Early Reviewers selection, Tipperary by Frank Delaney. Still working on Cold Sassy Tree by Olive Ann Burns. Next in line is Lady & the Law by Wilkie Collins and I'm going back to the beginning of Harry Potter before I read the new one. The Copper Beech by Binchy
Cold Sassy Tree by Burns
The Wind in the Willows by Grahame
Snow Falling on Cedars by Guterson
The Egg Tree by Milhous
Fear in the Forest by Leeuw
Explore a Tropical Forest
A Wonderbook and Tanglewood Tales by Hawthorne
In the Lake of the Woods ... Interesting list. Includes one of my favorites, too. Cold Sassy Tree by Olive Ann Burns I still laugh at the memory of the old man saying "She's as dead as she's ever going to be. Well, isn't she?" about his late wife. ... in all the wrong places. I was disappointed that the characters, especially Margret, seemed so dull, and hopeless.
4. Cold Sassy Tree-Olivia Burns
Wow! At last, a good May/December romance, written in a realistic fashion. And, for one of the few times since Harper Lee, a book was ... Cold Sassy Tree's a keeper, dara, I liked it very much too.
It took me nearly 50 pages to get into Arthur Phillips' new novel Angelica, but once I did, I could hardly stop reading till I finished. It comes billed as a Victorian ghost story, which it certainly is, but one that's more in ... I finished Splendid Solution by Jeffrey Kluger.
I am now reading Cold Sassy Tree by Olive Ann Burns. I heard so many good things about it on the Fiction-L list. I am really enjoying it. ... Eating Bon Bons by Lorna Landvik
43) The Road by Cormac McCarthy
44) The Archivist's Story by Travis Holland
45) Cold Sassy Tree by Olive Ann Burns
46) High Tide in Tucson by Barbara Kingsolver
47) Blindness by Jose Saramgo
48) Tipperary by Frank Delaney
49) Chocolat by Joa ... ... as a topic or title?
In Cold Blood
Cold Mountain
Smilla's Sense of Snow
The Spy Who Came In From the Cold
Cold Sassy Tree If you like Fanny Flagg, you'll love Cold Sassy Tree by Olive Ann Burns. Has one of my all-time favorite heart-breakingly funny lines in it. Which, of course, I can't share without spoiling it for anyone who hasn't read it but means to.
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