Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe in WACKY READING CHALLENGES

Sep 30, 2018 Book Concierge rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: concierge, strong-women, friendship, southern-lit, library, alabama, relationships, audio, historical-fiction, love

Abridged audiobook narrated by the author
Unabridged audio performed by Lorna Raver.

When Evelyn accompanies her husband to the nursing home to visit an ailing relative, she meets Mrs Threadgood. As their friendship progresses, Ninny tells Evelyn about Ruth and Idgie and the Whistle Stop Café, and the time Idgie was tried for murdering a man.

This is actually the third time I’ve read this book and I love just as much now as I did the first time. Flagg does a marvelous job of developing these charac ...more

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Mar 08, 2018 Kathryn rated it it was ok

Shelves: historical-fiction, fiction, read-in-2018

Although I'm giving it 2 stars on Goodreads, I would bump it up if I could to 2.25 or 2.5. I listened to this on audio and I really liked the narrator, There was just quite a bit I didn't care for. The way it bounced around every couple pages (each chapter) made it more confusing that may have possibly been more due to listening to it than reading it. But although I enjoy relatively shorter chapters. I feel the chapters could have been slightly longer and condensed several days into them. I know ...more

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Dec 10, 2018 Jody rated it it was ok

Shelves: made-me-cry, aty-2018, lgbtq

Although it's not usually my style, I was hoping for a real heart-warming, draw-me-in story like The Color Purple with this book. I didn't get it - I found it too disjointed, with too many characters, and too much jumping around. I never felt like I got much of a hold on the book, and didn't particularly care much about anyone in it, but lo and behold I found myself with tears absolutely streaming down my cheeks at the end.

I officially do not understand myself. I give up. ...more

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Aug 26, 2016 Debra Barstad rated it really liked it

This was a cute little book. It had comical part, sad parts, mystery parts and heartfelt parts. The writing style was very easy to read and at times I felt like I was sitting there in the Whistle Stop Cafe. I would recommend this book to anyone that wants a fast easy read.

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