Small town ways:
"You know what they say,” Jennie Sue giggled right along with her. “There’s three ways of fast communication: telegraph, telephone, and tell-a-woman.”
Cricket’s recipe for good catfish bait:
“Are those fettuccine noodles?” Anna Grace asked. “But what’s the smell?”
“A little cinnamon, some nutmeg, and ginger whipped up in a flour mixture and made into balls, then the noodles are wrapped around them so that when they get into the water, the pasta kind of comes undone and wiggles like live worms,” Cricket answered.
There’s never a question as to whether Carolyn Brown’s books are good or not. As always, excellent. This was an excellent story/novella. Most, if not all, of Brown’s books take place in small towns in Texas. There’s always a mean person or three that have black hearts and take pleasure in other people’s misfortunes. These people live to bring darkness into other’s lives. However, there’s something good about that and that is there is also always a person or three that do not take kindly to the meanies and have no problem telling the meanies to knock off the attitude, or else. They put the meanies in their place!
There’s also always a love story, but nothing juicy like all sexual. It’s always innocent and the characters always stand church and say grace. It’s good clean sweetness. If I’m feeling a bit down, I pick up one of Brown’s books and almost instantly I’m taken to a nice peaceful world. Wonderful! I feel so good right not that I’m going to read another Brown book. How about… “Small Town Rumors”. I just read that Cricket is in it which is a character from this review. Cool!