This is me branching out again. I think I have mentioned before that I do not like "Southern" books because it takes me a long time to figure out the accents. Is it kind of ironic because I have this southern accent? Although, I do know people who have this bad of a southern draw, but why is it so hard to read?Anyway, if I look past the accents, I enjoyed this book. The book is through the eyes of the 12ish year old boy who lives in the town Cold Sassy. His grandmother dies at the beginning. His grandfather holds a family meeting, three weeks later, that he's getting remarried and it's to a woman that is half his age. The story is just about lots of gossip and hilarious situations that happen to this family. I was laughing out loud a couple of times (and you know that's a good thing when that doesn't happen often when I read). The setting is back in the day where automobiles are very new and women are only good for cooking, cleaning, and having babies. Being a slight feminist, I can look past that because there was a time where that was, but it was quite interesting how much a hold women had on their men in this book, so I'm not offended at all. 4.5 stars I wouldn't recommend this book to everyone, but I liked it enough to where I feel I could give it such a high score.
Anyway, I'm truckin' along with my goal now, and my goal within a goal of reading 52 books this year. So, this thing should be added to weekly, but we'll see. I get behind sometimes.
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