Chantel's review of Where the Heart Is

Where the Heart Is Where the Heart Is
by Billie Letts
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Chantel's review
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bookshelves: fiction
status: Read in December, 2005

This book was pretty much a worthless piece of fluff. Anything this book does, any Barbara Kingsolver book will do about 2000 times better. This book is right on the border of dreadful.

I must of gotten out of the trash. I hope I didn't pay even 20 cents for it at the Social Services League. Maybe I got it on $5 bag day at the Friends of the Library book sale. All I can say is that any amount I paid for this book was TOO MUCH!

I read it when I was on a trip to visit Cassidy. I read it in airports and on airplanes and in hotel rooms. I left it behind in my hotel room when I checked out. I didn't want to put it in the trash can, but I sure as hell didn't want to tote it home. Maybe the person who cleaned my room found it and her/his life was changed in some positive way. I hope so. All it did for me weas keep me from dwelling on the possibility of a plane crash.

This is one of the Opra's book club books, which is kind of surprising because some of the books in her clu...more
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message 1: by Liquid Sky
05/02/2008 02:42PM

824670 I couldn't have said it better myself!
jeez i heard so many positive things about this book and it was so.. POINTLESS!!!
ah anyway i love your review~<3


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