Random, disorganized, choppy story | Girls in Trucks

Southern from Start to Finish | Girls in Trucks | Katie Crouch

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	• Girls in Trucks Katie Crouch Little, Brown and Company, 2008 - 256 pages average customer review:based on 37 reviews view larger image
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i liked it....

I dont know why everyone is saying its so horrible. I actually liked this book, the main reason i liked it was because, for once, it wasnt about a girl who has a close 'man-friend' that she never thinks about as more than a friend until midway when he's with other people and she's broken after some horrible man broke her heart. It was a nice change to not know throughout the entire book that the main character is going to end up with her friend and the last 30 pages of the book they keep missing each other and then on the last page they get together! woo hoo! how original (dont get me wrong i still read these books, but it was REALLLYYY nice for this book not to be like that). the ending was VERY realistic and everyone said a whole lot of nothing happened throughout the book, well cant we just say that about everything that's ever been written? its not nothing... it was the character's life, not every life has major events or whatever, and this book was pretty realistic and very honest, which is what made me like it. i would recommend it and i hope the author writes another book, soon. (i liked the cover too- which is what made me take it off the library shelf, with the red truck in the background haha)

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Random, disorganized, choppy story

I had high hopes for this books. I love Southern humor, and coming of age tales are usually pretty easy to get through when I'm reading on the bus.

Girls in Trucks starts off telling the story of Sarah Walters, a Southern debutante who does not particularly want to follow the "coming out" way of life. The book then proceeds telling her life story, always turning back to her Southern roots.

I did not like that the author jumps from point to point, with little or no background information to inform the reader. At times, I had to go back to jog my memory about a certain character or event. There was no organizational flow. The book also switches from first person to third person randomly, which confused me. Should have stayed with first person throughout.

Easy book to get through, but very random tales threaded together with no details.

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Southern from Start to Finish

GIRLS IN TRUCKS actually delighted me more than I imagined. I knew it was written about people from the south, Charleston, South Carolina, to be exact, and I knew it was short stories all twined together to form one story, but I didn't know it would capture my attention as much as it did. Lovely reading for the end of summer. Interesting stories that take you away from tropical storms outside the window or football on the television.

I left the south over six years ago and miss it every day so when I read a book that comes full circle as this one did, taking Sarah Walters out of South Carolina and back again, it gives me hope that I will be back in the south again one day too.

Read and enjoy and if you don't live south of the Mason-Dixon line, it's time to find a place to visit there that suits you and makes you content like this book will. Enjoy!

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Sarah Walters is a less-than-perfect debutante. She tries hard to follow the time-honored customs of the Charleston Camellia Society, as her mother and grandmother did, standing up straight in cotillion class and attending lectures about all the things that Camellias don't do. (Like ride with boys in pickup trucks.)
But Sarah can't quite ignore the barbarism just beneath all that propriety, and as soon as she can she decamps South Carolina for a life in New York City. There, she and her fellow displaced Southern friends try to make sense of city sophistication, to understand how much of their training applies to real life, and how much to the strange and rarefied world they've left behind.
When life's complications become overwhelming, Sarah returns home to confront with matured eyes the motto "Once a Camellia, always a Camellia"- and to see how much fuller life can be, for good and for ill, among those who know you best.
Girls in Trucks introduces an irresistable, sweet, and wise voice that heralds the arrival of an exciting new talent.

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