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They say that old writers never die, and I hope that’s true. With her last novel, The Whole Town’s Talking, Flagg announced that she was done. It was her final novel. I was sad to hear it, but grateful to have been able to read every wonderful thing she’s ever written. She has given us so much! And then, imagine my joy when I opened my email to find an invitation from Random House and Net Galley to read and review this sequel to Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Café, which is possibly my...
I don't mind admitting that I was apprehensive of reading Fannie Flagg's return to Whistle Stop in Alabama, Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe is a beloved favourite, and I was psyching myself up for disappointment. It is with joy that I report it was far from that, the original spirit and magic is all here as we are given a non-linear narrative, that goes back in forth in time from the 1930s to the present day, learning of what has happens to the close knit Whistle Stop community. It...
This is a historical fiction. This is an update on the characters from the Fried Green Tomatoes book. This is a slow moving book with short chapters. The first part I found a little boring, but the ending was very good. I enjoyed the characters. I was kindly provided an e-copy of this book by the publisher (Random House) or author (Fannie Flagg) via NetGalley in exchange for an honest review, and I want to send a big Thank you to them for that.
Reading "The Wonder Boy of Whistle Stop" is like taking a meandering Sunday drive with old friends in a pink Cadillac down a scenic rural highway to a cafe in your childhood hometown, where you miss a few turns, have to backtrack, laugh and cry a little, stop at a few roadside stands for honey and fried green tomatoes, and find when you get there that the journey was just as important as the destination. This is a book that 100% succeeds in achieving what it set out to be. It's an extremely wort...
Believe it or not, my first audiobook. Fried Green Tomatoes is one of my favorite guilty pleasure movies - never fails to make me shed a tear. This book includes all of the favorite characters, a look forward to their respective futures. A feel good story, just like Fried Green Tomatoes makes you feel good, too.
This story begins in November of 1938, inside the Train Station in Birmingham, Alabama, followed by a brief glimpse at both Whistle Stop, and a little boy and his dog running alongside the train. If you’ve read Fannie Flagg’s Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Café, or seen the movie, you’ll undoubtedly recognize many of the characters in this story - Buddy, Evelyn Couch, Ninny and Idgie, along with others. Years pass as this story progresses, but it returns to yesteryear off and on to fil...
Disappointing... I was excited to see that Fannie Flagg had written a new novel updating us all on characters from her wildly successful novel Fried Green Tomatoes. Unfortunately, nothing about this worked for me. It bounced around so much from place-to-place, time-to-time and character-to- character that it was impossible to develop any kind of connection with any of characters. I found myself completely bored. The writing was shallow, detached and unbelievable. If you are a die-hard FGT fan th...
Have you ever wondered what happened to Evelyn Couch, along with Idgie, Buddy Jr., and Ninny Threadgoode? If so, The Wonder Boy of Whistlestop will answer those questions for you and other fans of Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe.It’s hard to believe that it has been 33 years since Fannie Flagg’s Fried Green Tomatoes was first published in 1987. I remember reading the novel in 1989 and being so excited when it was made into a movie. I can only think of one other story [ To Kill A Mo...
This is a cute, fast, sweet novel. It was difficult to get into the story because for the first third of the novel, there is no actual story. It just bounces around from different times in history from the points of view of different people, many of whom we’ve met in Flagg’s earlier books. Then, when it finally resembles an actual narrative, basically nothing happens.Thanks to NetGalley for the opportunity to read this book, which RELEASES OCTOBER 27, 2020.
The Wonder Boy of Whistle Stop by Fannie Flagg is the sequel of the popular Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe. The problem with sequels is that they rarely live up to the original and unfortunately this is the case here. I am going against the grain on this one because it looks like most reviewers are extremely fond of the new novel. But to me it seems that the author wanted to squeeze one last drop from a well-loved cozy story. This book is an update of the lives of the characters i...
Flagg has penned this long awaited sequel to Fried Green Tomatoes for her fans. Whatever ever did happen to the unforgettable characters from Whistle Stop when the trains stopped running and the cafe closed? Now we know. The book felt rushed as in this case the sequel was not as good as the original, yet still with Flagg’s relaxed, southern charm, a lovely book for an autumn weekend morning. 3.5 stars
I was so excited to get this ARC and the story was so much better than I even expected! Make sure to read Whistle Stop Cafe before this one as this one is a follow up that ties everything up nicely. Fannie Flagg in my opinion is one of the best writers out there. Nobody can give you the cozy homey happy feeling like she does. Loved this one and HIGHLY recommend.
Review to follow. This took me forever to finish, sluggish and repetitive
Did the author re-read FGT before she wrote this one?I ask because I did, this past week. I simply opened up my eyes, swept them from left to right, sounding out words based on the phonics that I learned back in grade school. I retained information, the little synapses in my brain wiggling around and forming memories. I eagerly opened this book this morning. I’m a third of the way through the book and here is what we learned:The character of Julian died around Easter 1988 but even though he was
I really enjoyed this return to the setting and characters from Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe. This book is written in quintessential Fannie Flagg style, and while it might send some readers' heads spinning with the jumping back and forth in time and between the characters' POVs, I loved it. I love how she gives the reader a look at a particular situation from various angles: through time, through other eyes, so that you get a complete picture of how things play out. I just loved...
The Wonder Boy of Whistle Stop is the sequel to Fannie Flagg’s novel Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe. It is a delightful novel that jumps back and forth in different time periods between the 1930s and present day, and tells us the further adventures of Buddy Threadgoode Jr. and others. This book is not a standalone. Readers will greatly benefit from reading the first book, Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe.This was a joy to read. It takes us back to the 1930s when Ruth
As both a bestselling book and a blockbuster movie, “Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Café” made the folks of small town Alabama beloved neighbors of many Americans. This book picks up where “Fried Green Tomatoes” left off and quickly catapults us another 6 decades. The little boy who lost an arm in an accident is now a widow living in a retirement home. I don’t think this book works as a standalone novel. All the character development was done in the earlier book. If the reader did not
Reading this book is like settling down with an old friend. Yes, it rambles as conversations between old friends who have known each other a long time are prone to do. Catching up with the characters from Whistle Stop and the new characters that are introduced is a delight. The main focus is Bud Threadgood and his daughter Ruthie, and the people that come into their lives or have connections to Whistle StopDue to the building of a major highway Whistle Stop has ended up a deserted ghost town. Bu...
The small town of Whistle Stop, AL has its share of characters. There’s Dot the postmistress, Opal from the beauty shop, and of course Ruth and Idgie who run the café with son Buddy. The chapters focus on different years, from the thirties through the present day, tied together with Dot’s annual letter catching everyone up on their former neighbors, even after everyone has moved away from Whistle Stop. Flagg has written a book where it seems that every good deed is paid forward. If you read the