The Whole Town's Talking

from nwieme

I guess 3 and a half... I LOVE her stories and I got into the characters (slowly this time) but it was a good story. I couldn't wait to see how it would end. And -eh- it ended but I wasn't a huge fan of the ending. I suspended my disbelief easily in the story and even enjoyed it, but the ending -...

from kimkimkim

This simple, multi-generational story is best described by paraphrasing Ms. Flagg's words: They had lived and died. It was as simple as that. They were each "another little link in the chain of life, inching forward from generation to generation."Fannie Flagg introduces the reader to the sturdy S...

from Beamis12

3.5 I consider Fannie Flag one of my ultimate comfort read authors. The book started delightfully strong, with letters back and forth from a farmer looking to take on a mail order Swedish wife. But.....I guess I wasn't in need of as much comfort as I thought at the time, lost interest and put it ...

from Dianne57

If anyone likes Fannie Flagg or thought provoking, light fiction -I just finished (and turned right around to read it again)"The Whole Town's Talking". What a sweet and entirely thought provoking book. This is written in very short chapters by many different points of view and spans time from th...

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Listening to The Whole Town's Talking by Fannie Flagg was my birthday gift to myself and I really enjoyed it. I love storytellers and Fanny Flagg is one of the best. The first part was the story of Lordor Nordstrom coming from Sweden to Missouri. He founded the town by buying, clearing some land ...