Thrift store purchase.

Lorna Landvik lives in Minneapolis.

This one is on heaven-ali's wish list also.

Book exchange box to Birmingham bookcrossers via LyzzyBee.

My goodness - a Landvik I (think I) haven't read! Thanks for including this in the Twin Cities - Midlands book box swap. I will share with the other BCBirmingham people too!

PARTICIPANTS:

LyzzyBee
FrenchNicola
Wyldetwo
Nordie
Heaven-Ali <------ it's here!

I started to read this and it seemed familiar - turns out I read it on a BookRing in Feb 2006. What I thought of it at the time - not the best of hers I'd read but still enjoyable - more themed around bands in the 1930s and race issues rather than the communities of women that she does so well, and quite like Fannie Flagg.

Will pass this on to FrenchNicola soon!

WILD RELEASE NOTES:

Will try to catch Frenchnicola at the French meet up and pass this to her there!

Picked up en route to French meetup yesterday, and near the top of the TBR pile...

I finished this book on my way home from holiday. Not always my cup of tea, but quite an inspirational, and tragic story. Thanks for sharing. I'm just about to PM Wyldetwo to pass it on to her.

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Will be in the post to Wyldetwo today...

This arrived yesterday - thanks Nicola!

This was a great read, fascinating characters and a poignant but uplifting story.

Hope to pass on to Nordie today!

Picked up at the meet - Thanks!

Quite a recent publish (2005), I agree with the others in that this is not my favourite of hers, but it is still an enjoyable read

Off to Ali when I see her next

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Finally remembered I had this when tidying up my bookbox.

Taken and given to Ali at the latest meeting

Passed on to me today - thanks : )

Oh dear, I hadn't realised I had had this book for more than 3 months - just as well I am last on the list.

Everytime I read another Lorna Landvik novel it immediately becomes my favourite. I liked the fact that this was departure from the groups of women clustered around a particular place, although the stories of friendship in this one are similar. Now I think that this one really is my favourite. I loved the characters and the journey they make together. Violet is a very engaging charcter with whom it is easy to sympathise, in fact all the characters step right off the page becoming real people. Set in the 1930's and 1940's sad, lonely amputee - 18 year old Violet - travels the USA with a group of musicians, untill a terrible incident takes them all back to Pearl, North Dakota, the place Violet met the musicians after being involved in a bus crash, where a new journey begins. There are times when the story takes a tragic turn, so it is quite a poignant read.

WILD RELEASE NOTES:

To be released at today's meet up.


If you have found this book, thank you for taking the time to look it up on the internet. Now please tell us what you thought of the book and what your plans for it are.

Picked up at last month's meeting.

Culling mount toobie.