karen joy fowler's the sweetheart season
first of all, serious props to johnM for the recommendation--i thoroughly enjoyed this book and stayed up past my self-imposed trying-to-sleep time to finish it.i'm definitely going to have to check out more books by fowler (but probably not the jane austen one, since i'm not an austen fan). plot summary: small town, 1947, wheat mill/baking testing area with a betty crocker-like symbol, and the local girls/workers are talked into becoming a baseball team to advertise for their company. but really it's about small-town life, and petty rivalries, and young women's tenuous friendships, and wacky old men who want apes, and goddesses, and gandhi. the novel is narrated by the daughter of one of the aforementioned local girls, and it's never entirely clear just how much she's embellishing, but that's part of the fun. really great characters and story--definitely worth the sleep deprivation.
ps--the finale of lost! whoa! what was with the sex pirates? i have to say that i prefer finales that wrap things up a little bit more, and don't leave like seven cliffhangers to torment us over the summer, but i did like the final plane scenes quite a bit.
I love how Conan (or was it Leno?) made the joke that the boat apparently came from the Neverland Ranch.
ReplyDelete(MIke)
I didn't realize how silly this book sounds until I read your summary. Betty Crocker, apes, Ghandi? What??
ReplyDeleteSorry to keep you up late. :) I stayed up tonight to finish Atonement. It was well worth it; really outstanding.
mike--aren't michael jackson jokes over yet? it's been like ten years of the same jokes!
ReplyDeletejohn--there is no need to apologize. i loved the book. and perhaps i shouldn't have made it sound so silly, b/c it certainly isn't. :)