Elmwood Springs Can't Wait to Get to Heaven, Book 3, (Paperback)

from hobbitprincess

What a delightful book! Elner "dies" but surprises everyone by coming back to life, after a brief trip to heaven. Her return directly and indirectly affects all around her. The message? We can be a positive influence on other people's lives just by being ourselves and being kind and helpful. You'...

from doxtator

Slight spoiler alert for book summary! This is the story of how Elner falls out of a tree and dies--and then of how it ends up that she didn't actually die afterall, and of all the many ripples through the fabric of her community that Elner's life and not-quite-death made. The many characters of ...

from tututhefirst

Fannie Flagg is one of my favorite "feel good" authors. Her characters are always so down-to-earth funny and often remind me of my relatives on my mother's side of the family (the non-Italians). Here we have the elderly auntie Elner, whose age is undetermined because her sister destroyed the fami...

from lisa.schureman

This was a very entertaining, funny, and well written book. It begins with Elner, the main character climbing a ladder to pick some figs to make preserves. Unfortunately, she runs into a wasp's nest and falls from said ladder. At the hospital she dies, however her near-death experience involves g...

from Morgayne

Can't Wait to Get to Heaven by Flannie Flagg was an amazing book about how one women's life can affect an entire community and help so many people! Elner Shimfissle is a very crazy and outgoing old women who brings light to almost every page of the book. her personality is so vibrant that you can...