The Sweetheart Season
by Karen Joy Fowler | Women's Fiction | This book has not been rated.
ISBN: 0141027088 Global Overview for this book
ISBN: 0141027088 Global Overview for this book
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Journal Entry 1 by beeofgoodcheer from Stowmarket, Suffolk United Kingdom on Thursday, January 17, 2008
'Polls have recently confirmed what has long been suspected; most men do not want brainy women. Stewardesses have turned out to be that occupation blessed most often with marriage. The key elements appear to be uniforms and travel.' It is 1947 and in the aftermath of World War II, halcyon days have not returned to Magrit, Minnesota, where the veterans have failed to come home. The men haven't died; they've just moved onto greener pastures, rejecting the local women, who served the war effort in the Scientific Kitchen of Margaret Mill. The mill was founded by Henry Collins, the man responsible for Sweetwheats, the world's first puffed and sugar-coated cereal. As part of a publicity campaign, Henry creates the Sweetwheats, the all-girl baseball team, convincing the mill girls that this will help them find husbands.
I couldn't really get into this, it wasn't as immediate as The Jane Austen Book Club.
Journal Entry 4 by beeofgoodcheer at BookMooch in RABCK, A Bookcrossing member -- Controlled Releases on Thursday, May 1, 2008
Released 15 yrs ago (5/1/2008 UTC) at BookMooch in RABCK, A Bookcrossing member -- Controlled Releases
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