Somebody Everybody Listens To
Retta Lee Jones is blessed with a beautiful voice and has big dreams of leaving her tiny Tennessee hometown. With a beaten down car, a pocketful of hard-earned waitressing money, and stars in her eyes, Retta sets out to make it big in Nashville. But the road to success isn't a smooth one in a...
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Retta Lee Jones is blessed with a beautiful voice and has big dreams of leaving her tiny Tennessee hometown. With a beaten down car, a pocketful of hard-earned waitressing money, and stars in her eyes, Retta sets out to make it big in Nashville. But the road to success isn't a smooth one in a town filled with dreamers, and Retta begins to have doubts: can she make her mark while staying true to herslf? From the breakout author of Artichoke's Heart, this bighearted novel is a must-read for anyone who has ever chased a dream (or hummed along with Taylor Swift).
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780142418864 (0142418862)
Publish date: June 9th 2011
Publisher: Speak
Pages no: 261
Edition language: English
This book really tugs at my heart. The way Retta chases her dreams of becoming a singer.. it's so motivating and inspiring, what i liked was that the book shows that there was difficulty and hardships on chasing our dreams. This made the story more realistic. And the friends she made..;(Overall I ga...
3.5This is one of those novels that is pleasant, undemanding, funny, enjoyable but still required a little something else to make it memorable. Perhaps it suffers from that unnamed condition that most "happy" realistic fiction books suffer from. If it's a real life setting and doesn't have fast-pace...
I've had a string of bad luck with books lately. I intensely disliked the last two I read (Jane by April Lindner and Revolution by Jennifer Donnelly) and the three I read before that just didn't do it for me (Hush by Eishes Chayil, Matched by Ally Condie, and Watersmeet by Ellen Jensen Abbott). So i...
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