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“But unfortunately, history always expects people, young or old, to have known better at the time.” (2.5 stars) “I Still Dream About You” is the second Fannie Flagg novel I have read. It is a quick read, filled with quirky characters who for the most part come across as real people. Flagg has populated this novel with the types of folks who just scream, “I should be in a story”.There are more than few chuckles in this text, and when a character (Ethel) rants about how Hollywood has stunk since t...
Subtle, this book ain't. Rather than let any mystery of character or plot accumulate throughout the book, Flagg stops the proceedings immediately to insert flashbacks that explain everything that happened in the previous chapter. In a novel that hinges on a girl-detective-style discovery of a literal skeleton in a closet, it's like reading a Nancy Drew mystery written for those with the shortest of short-term attention spans.As for the decades-old mystery at the center of I Still Dream About You...
I stopped by the library during my walk the other day. I donated three, bought two from the sale shelves, and borrowed this one. Which means that I am still up one. lolSo what does an ex-beauty queen do when she turns sixty? Maggie Fortenberry was Miss Alabama many years ago, and is now a real estate agent. She is beautiful, classy, charming, etcetera etcetera. But is she happy? If not, why not? And what is the big plan she has up her sleeve? What weird and wonderful events will pop up while she...
I couldn't read this fantastic book fast enough. Our main character Maggie feels as if there is nothing more in this life for her, so she has planned her own death. She gives away her clothes, closes her bank account; has basically everything all planned out. But one thing after another keeps happening so she has to delay her death.All the characters are just fabulous and so full of life you can't help but chuckle outloud throughout the book! I really wanted to get more in depth in what happened...
How did I manage to miss out on the entire Fannie Flagg thing? I’ve heard of Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistlestop Café, but somehow I didn’t get around to reading it. I might never have discovered the delightful Fannie Flagg if my belle-soeur hadn’t sent me a copy of this book, I Still Dream About You.There were a dozen things I liked about this novel, the most important being the two real estate agents who are best friends and work together as a team, Maggie and Brenda. They work at an agenc...
Where, where do I start with this book? I picked it up because I had loved the movie "Fried Green Tomatoes" by the author. However, I never actually read the book and probably never will now. I absolutely hated this book, although it did make me feel like a teenager again. I swear I haven't rolled my eyes so much while listening to anyone since I was 15 or 16. I can rate this book on two levels:First, the story, or lack of one. If you have ever heard a trite, over-used saying, it was in this boo...
5+*A completely delightful, charming, heart felt story.This is my second Fannie Flagg book in a couple of days and they have filled me with sunshine and joy.Fannie Flagg has taken what could otherwise have been a bleak and dispiriting subject and made it charming and amusing.We find Real Estate Agent Maggie Fortenberry composing a letter “To Whom It May Concern” informing her friends, etc. that she is ‘going away for good’.Maggie is depressed. Real estate is on a downward slide. Things are defin...
This probably deserves a 2.5...it wasn't a bad book. But it's Fannie Flagg (I mean, how can you take anyone with such a name seriously?). So the book is one of those syrupy, feel-good (even if it is about suicide), panetheon to female friendship books that you expect Fannie Flagg to produce. And if you're writing a feel-good book about suicide, then you're left--as I was--with this slightly uncomfortable feeling that Flagg didn't really address the kind of serious issues that might drive someone...
Fannie Flagg's charm has always been in her creation of communities where polite, optimistic and kind people are respected and successful. Take a few of those characters, throw in a neurotic friend, and then introduce a less friendly person to the mix, and you basically have the makings of a Fannie Flagg novel. This book is no different. In fact, it adheres to that formula so well that I can't entirely separate it from her previous books. Fortunately, I liked "Can't Wait to Get to Heaven" and "A...
Carelessly fatuous. Completely predictable. Very bad baddies.And vacuously good goodies.An unbelievably simple woman is planning a tidy suicide. Why is she suicidal? She is exhausted by having to be pretty and nice. She is concerned about the major issues of the day like (horror of horrors) she only has tan nylons to wear with a black evening suit!“She had to think about her reputation; after all, she was an ex-Miss Alabama.”Yes, yes, of course! We all look to beauty pageant winners as paragons
Please don't take three stars as a bad review. Fannie Flagg is a gifted storyteller and this is a lovely tale. The three stars are because everything is always so perfectly wrapped up in a bow with her books. Maybe not Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe, but all the others I have read. Don't get me wrong, there are times I want a sweet story and a happy ending and I can always count on Fannie for that, but she isn't going to shake my world or drive me to tears (again, leave out Fried
Started it as a possible book club pick. 20 pgs in I'm a little annoyed by the writing, so it's a No. However, I'll keep reading.I think I really liked Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe! (Another Fannie Flagg novel).This should've been in my started but didn't want to finish pile. It was not good! The story starts with a sixty yr old woman writing her "suicide" note; she's merely going away in her mind, and the story is about her mistakes (boring, she was a previous Miss Alabama & on...
Ahhhhh, Birmingham, Alabama, how I miss that city! I was excited to read what was advertised as a mystery by Fannie Flagg. But alas this book did not meet my expectations. While the descriptions of the Magic City were spot on and life in the Old South was true to what I remember, having lived there for ten years; I STILL DREAM OF YOU is not a mystery. Though there is a small mystery within the novel, the story is Maggie’s. And I found her to be whining and a bit boring. In the last days of the
A very quotidian and slow-moving book. I found the language and voice serviceable, but nothing to write home about. Perhaps I'm not the right reader for Fannie Flagg, or I might have picked up the wrong book.
I felt that I really needed a book that might make me laugh, so I decided who better than Fannie Flagg to put a smile on my face. Well imagine my surprise when I discovered early on that the leading lady in this novel is planning her early death by suicide. (Don't worry, it is not a depressing book).Margaret (Maggie) Fortenberry, imagined a wonderful life. She was crowned Miss Alabama in her younger days, but now forty years later, life has seemed to pass her by. She sees her life as having been...
I think those of us who loved Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe keep waiting for Fannie Flagg to give us another book that wonderful. Sadly, I Still Dream About You is not that book.However, it is a solid 3.5 star entry (I rounded up). The characters, including the protagonist - an aging, former Miss Alabama, who is just about the nicest person ever set down on God's green Earth - are a bit on the cartoon side, but they are entertaining.Ms. Flagg nails Alabama, how it looks, how the