I've fallen behind in my reviews, so this is just a quicky: The folksy/backwoods Appalachian dialect in this made me crazy and diminished my enjoyment of the story (even though I recognize it was well done). I did enjoy the premise, though--widow forced to remarry chooses the town simpleton. Intel...
I'm reminded of Tropic Thunder, and Stiller's character who once was in a movie titled Simple Jack. Fortunately, Jess is smarter than Jack (not hard really; Stiller played Jack) This book, around fellow romance readers, is like, the holy grail or something. People speak in reverence about it. W...
Question: If a heroine was raised in the Ozarks by her kin, in a teeny tiny town perched on the side of a mountain, where no one came in from away, and no one left, folks jumped over a rock to celebrate a weddin', they say words like "caint" and are so intermarried they caint right remember what cl...
3.5 starsFrom others' reviews, I expected something different; something more. This was a sweet love story all right, but it was not the swoon worthy romance I'd been led to expect. I think the 2 other potential suitors of Miss Althea and their side stories took too much space from the main love sto...
Aww. I saw this constantly listed as a favorite by GR friends, and between the high expectations and the premise - I was never moved to read it. But once I got through the ornery first chapter, it was great fun, and quite sweetly sentimental at the end there - not just for the Althea and Jess but ...
4 out of 5 StarsAlthea Winslow is a widow living in the Ozarcks around the turn of the 20th century. Her extended family doesn’t agree with her refusal to remarry. Althea decides to hire Jesse, the mentally retarded, yet sweet man to help her prepare for winter. While the various big families put th...
Loved the book and Jess!The heroine was a widow with an interfering mother in law and a son and a neglected farm. Jess has always wanted three things, dogs, a gun and a woman so when he hears the heroine is selling her dogs, he wants them and they start the an arrangement, he would work for her to e...
An amazingly touching book! Althea Winsloe has no intention of remarrying, ever! After all, she has what she needs - her husband's farm to pass onto her beloved son when the time comes. However, the denizens of Marrying Stone don't agree. It seems like every single person in the small mountain town ...
Althea's husband died 2 years ago leaving her all his property, including his dogs which all the men covet. Her in-laws are hounding her to marry someone on their side of the family and the other major families in the area are trying to coax her to theirs. She wants to stay unwed because she felt ...
Simple Jess is a simple love story. People tend to think of simple things as unworthy. Not the case at all. In a world where everything is complicated, murky, and it's hard to tell what is real and what isn't, the simple gets taken for granted. Kind of like Jesse Best.Merriam-Webster lists these ...
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