Whistlin' Dixie in a Nor'easter
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780312556600 (0312556608)
Publish date: September 29th 2009
Publisher: Thomas Dunne Books
Pages no: 320
Edition language: English
Category:
Humor,
Book Club,
Adult Fiction,
American,
Romance,
Family,
Contemporary,
Southern,
Womens Fiction,
Chick Lit,
Womens
Series: Dixie (#1)
This is chick lit at its best. There are clichés but some of the funniest scenes occur here. Leelee is taken from the South and plunked into Vermont where her husband, using her money, buys a ski lodge. She has to adjust to all the changes and then he leaves her to run it alone. Her Southern friends...
I read this book only because of the Southern connection, and the fact that it was recommended to me. While some parts of it were slightly amusing, the author overplayed the Southern rich belle trope a bit much. I can identify with some of her Southernisms (aversion to cold weather, unfamiliarity wi...
A Southern girl named LeeLee moves north to Vermont. A little silly but a good story!
I wanted to like this book. I even thought I was coming close to liking it, but I never really got there. Lots of heavy issues were hit on, father uprooting family to allow him to be happy again; said father not really finding that happiness leaves family, but of course he leaves a note and scares...