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Loading... Nothing with Strings: NPR's Beloved Holiday Storiesby Bailey White
   No current Talk conversations about this book.  leslie.98 | Jun 27, 2023 |    ) Maydacat | Feb 6, 2020 | Audio performance by Lorna Raver 4 stars Years ago, I enjoyed hearing Bailey White’s read her stories on NPR. I know I still have cassette tapes of some of these stories around somewhere, although I don’t have the means to play them anymore. This is a collection of about a dozen short stories that were broadcasted yearly on Thanksgiving. Some of the stories do have a holiday setting, but mostly they are just good stories of the Deep South with quirky characters in quirky circumstances. I was disappointed that White did not read these stories herself, but Lorna Raver did a good job. I enjoyed them. Short vignettes like these are perfect for passing time while running holiday errands (another trip to the grocery store for the one thing that I forgot again.) (  ) msjudy | Nov 21, 2018 |  ) jguidry | Jan 21, 2018 | 1  2wonderY | Dec 16, 2011 | no reviews | add a review
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HTML: For more than a decade, Bailey White has delivered a story each Thanksgiving to National Public Radio's All Things Considered listeners. Long awaited by her many fans, Nothing with Strings is the entire collection of these Thanksgiving stories, published together for the first time. With wit and charm, White writes about an almost-gone little town where a spoon player is a guardian angel, an old woman fears that John James Audubon is living in her attic, and a homely governess wins a baby bull in a raffle and loses her heart. It's the kind of place where Heavenly Blue morning glories grow in through the windows of old houses and funeral food is shared on a Greyhound bus on a fall afternoon. You may not have ever been there, but you will feel right at home. White's beautifully written stories, teetering on the edge of the unreal, are sure to bring back memories you don't really have. .No library descriptions found. |
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Lorna Raver did a good job with the narration but unfortunately, I found the stories themselves were only OK. (