Hey everyone, I'm going to power through the reviews I missed (this being the last of 2) and then I'm going to post today's, the 11th review, all before midnight hopefully...I have an hour...and then tomorrow I go Christmas shopping!
OK, so, Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe. This book is really good, kind of hard to get into at first but really good once you do. It flits effortlessly between past and present but it all starts when our main character, Evelyn Couch, goes to visit he mother-in-law in her nursing home and ends up running into, and subsequently befriending, the enigmatic Ninny Threadgoode from Whistle Stop Alabama. Ninny gives Evelyn an escape from her Mother-in-law, if you hadn't already guessed, Evelyn and her Mother-in-law don't really get along. But once she meets Ninny Threadgoode her visits to the nursing home become something she looks forward to.
It's not really a difficult book to read once you get into it and it is really very good but it does change perspective a lot, mostly between Evelyn in the Nursing home and Ninny's memories of Whistle Stop.
I guess you're all wondering why it's called Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe. Well Ninny's sister in law Idgie Threadgoode used to run the Whistle Stop Cafe with her friend Ruth back in the '20's and one of the specialties of the cafe was, you guessed it, Fried Green Tomatoes. They're Ninny'd favourite and as she tells the story she laments over not being able to get them any more. Especially not the way they were done at the cafe.
As for Ninny's story and her childhood in Whistle Stop you'll have to read to find out.
That's it for review #10, I'll be back soon with today's review. Stay Tuned. As always, feel free to drop me a line with your thoughts and book recommendations. Happy Holidays!
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