The Whole Town's Talking : A Novel

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 lmsgirl

Fannie Flagg is such a wonderful writer, and always surprises me with her stories of small town life. The story starts with Lodor Nordstrom, in 1889 Missouri, and travels a century in the life of a small town and its people. You first fall in love with Lodor and his mail order bride Katrina, but ...

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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 ...