Cherry Jones
Birth date: November 21, 1956
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I can see why some people love this book. It's a great book for people who like this sort of thing. But all the characters are sad and lonely and want to connect with others, but that connection mostly means a sort of selfish wallowing in their own needs with the one unselfish guy who they use as a ...
My Summary:Despair--Dreams of hope--No justice--Things never change.Explanation of my summary:The story takes place in the American South among the poor underclass in the late 1930s. The social, economic and racial realities of this setting are oppressive to any human hope for a better life. I summa...
Revisited this book for the first time in a while, this time in audiobook format. It still makes me hungry for foods I have never eaten and/or would never eat (apples 'n' onions, ugh!), and I am still disturbed that there were apparently no legal consequences for beating your teacher to death in Ne...
★★★★★ Didn’t realize this was a Juvenile book when I got the audio from the library for a challenge on “Southern Belles” -- but I’m glad I listened to tale of a motherless preacher’s daughter who adopts a big mangy dog. Loved this short story and Cherry Jones' narration is wonderful. She is so go...
The narration is a little to... smiley, I guess would be the best way to describe it. In that enthusiastic nursery-school-teacher kind of way. The story is engaging, and there's enough detail about pioneer living to help a person survive alone in the woods. I found myself annoyed at Pa some, but ove...