Overall, I liked this book. I liked how it started. I liked how Groff kept interweaving stories. I liked all the references to Cooper. It even made me want to visit Cooperstown, and I don't like baseball. Groff's style is wonderful and keeps the reader turning the pages. She also creates belie...
Okay, so this book was on my to-read list for a long time because I couldn't find it anywhere. So there was a buildup and lots of anticipation. I wish that I had more knowledge of James Fenimore Cooper because it would have made my experience even better. The end of this book totally made it a so...
I really enjoyed this book as it was a funny and interesting tale. The largest character in the book is the town of Templeton and, through the main character, the reader learns the history and mythology that has created the town. The opening line of the novel sucked me in and I enjoyed most the ex...
The author, a native of Cooperstown, NY has written a love tale to her town, renamed Templeton. The name was a non de place used by James Fenimore Cooper for the town in his book The Pioneers. Wilhelmina (Willie) Upton has returned to town, pregnant, distraught, at a turning point in her life. Her ...
The first sentence reads ... "The day I returned to Templeton steeped in disgrace, the 50-foot corpse of a monster surfaced in Lake Glimmerglass.” The monster however is not the main focus of this engaging book. The quest to find her real father, dealing with "the lump" and a severely ill friend lea...
"Read" isn't fair. And neither is my reason for giving up so quickly. But I winced when I hit a woman named Piddles (Sweeney, I think), and the appearance of Zeke Felcher sealed the deal. As my old, venerated writing instructor Fister McBunghole used to say, it is very, very hard to write funny o...
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