Big Stone Gap: Big Cherry Holler ; Milk Glass Moon | 
📖 Tagged. There are plenty of books that take place in the Virginia Appalachian region, but this one hits closest to home.
📖 Shoreditch, England
📖 The Spellmans family
Thank you for the tag @Butterfinger
#wonderouswednesday @Eggs
This will forever be one of my favorite books about the locals of the Appalachian #Mountains. I was devastated by the pathetic excuse for a movie they turned it into a few years ago... I had such high hopes 😢😢😢
#AugustIsATrip @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks
#readingresolutions #stone
Yet another title that has been sitting on my tbr for years.
"The best thing a father can do for his son is love his mother" - Book that takes place in my Hometown. Anybody else have a book that takes place in their Hometown
pickI borrowed this from the library, because Annie, in Dear Fahrenheit 451, made it sound so good. I wasn‘t disappointed. The main character was a tiny bit annoying, but the sweet story made it all ok. A great cozy winter read, which is just what I was looking for.
pick“This will be a good weekend for reading.”
With an opening line like that, how could I not like this book? Started and finished this last night. Characters were a little flat but the description of Big Stone Gap made up for it. I felt like I could breathe in that mountain air.
Morning reading.
I‘m not a fan of movie covers on books.
I read this in one day, between laundry loads and other assorted errands. It's sweet but not sappy, and now I want to go to the mountains. Letter T accomplished. #litsyatoz
pickIncluded my fave quote from the book in my Overdrive screenshot. Very interesting book; I enjoyed the passion as well as the compassion in showing the rich lives of a tiny mountain town.
When I think of books set in a #smalltown, I tend to think US rather than UK/rest of world. Why is that? I blame John Cougar Mellencamp. And Footloose. And Fannie Flagg. And Garrison Keiller. And...
Think I've only read the first 2 of these, but I really enjoyed them, so should read more. #rockinmay
Little gems appear when you take the road less traveled. We opted to take the scenic drive that added 45 minutes to our road trip... and stumbled upon this. I've read the books but have never seen the town. 🚙💕📚💕
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•#roadtrip #scenicroute #adrianatrigiani #america #rural #towninabook #mapquestgoaway
No one worries about you like your Mom.
Turning 39 this year didn't really phase me except for a big desire to re-read books I loved in my 20's to see if they still held up. I started listening to the audio version of Big Stone Gap today (and will probably finish tomorrow as part of #24in48.) So far so good, and the audiobook is read by the author. That always adds something for me.
Mid-month movie night with some of the book club friends. Watching the movie adaptation of #BigStoneGap #ILikedTheBookBetter
picka fun, light, feel-good book! made me laugh and was a great book to split up some heavier reading.
"Let me tell you what, those men that sit behind a desk all day, the office types, STAY AWAY FROM THEM. They are the weirdos of the world. They don't get out and get air and get physical everyday so their blood pools in their brains and they get very strange sexual ideas." ??
finally get to sit down and listen to my book & crochet. 🤗I'm making this baby blanket for my sister👶🎧📖
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Started?today & can tell from this opening that I'm going to enjoy it!?
"The Wise County Bookmobile is one of the most beautiful sights in the world to me. When I see it lumbering down the mountain road like a tank, then turning wide & easing onto Shawnee Ave, I flag it down like an old friend....The Bookmobile is just a government truck, but to me it's a glittering royal coach delivering stories & knowledge & life itself."
#photoadaynov16 #setinasmalltown Adriana Trigiani set the Big Stone Gap books in her hometown (and, where I grew up). My grandmother lives in BSG still -and is mentioned in the second book. The town puts on the play The Trail of the Lonesome Pine every summer and Elizabeth Taylor did come to visit in 1976 and (famously, locally) choked on a chicken bone.
so-soOn point depiction of small town life in Appalachia. Loved many of the characters, but wanted to shake the main character. Her denial of an obvious and not ambiguous love interest drove me crazy.
so-soNice story about a small town in rural Virginia with fun, quirky characters. Downside is the inconsistent main character who is strong and smart one minute and dense and whiny the next.
