Aunt Jane of Kentucky
What Amazon Says
“Aunt Jane”, an elderly widow, relates the experiences of the people in a rural community named Goshen, to a younger woman visitor who conveyed them to the reader. This rhetorical device called a “double narrative,” was a common form of storytelling in the late nineteenth century…
By way of Aunt Jane and the other characters in her stories, the author voices the difficulties encountered by women of her time with metaphors and symbolism derived from the homey arts of sewing, cooking, and gardening…
Aunt Jane of Kentucky is an assemblage of stories about pastoral life permeated with the essence and humor of its aging raconteur…
My Thoughts
This book provides a great escape to 19th century Kentucky before cell phones and the Internet. I applaud the women in these stories who stood up to their selfish, overbearing husbands during a time when women had few rights. In a way, some of these tales reminded me of Garrison Keillor’s Lake Wobegon stories, which I heard on the radio for years. I think the book could have ended on a happier note, though. Otherwise, if you like a good southern yarn, this book is for you.
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By the way, for those of you who use the National Library Service for the Blind and Print Disabled, The Red Dress is available for download from their site here. No matter how you read it, please be sure to review it wherever you can. That goes for all my books. Thank you for stopping by. Stay safe, happy, and healthy.
New! The Red Dress
Copyright July 2019 by DLD Books
When Eve went to her high school senior prom, she wore a red dress that her mother had made for her. That night, after dancing with the boy of her dreams, she caught him in the act with her best friend. Months later, Eve, a freshman in college, is bullied into giving the dress to her roommate. After her mother finds out, their relationship is never the same again.
Twenty-five years later, Eve, a bestselling author, is happily married with three children. Although her mother suffers from dementia, she still remembers, and Eve still harbors the guilt for giving the dress away. When she receives a Facebook friend request from her old college roommate and an invitation to her twenty-five-year high school class reunion, then meets her former best friend by chance, she must confront the past in order to face the future.
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My Corner 
It sounds like a book I wold enjoy reading. I like the technique of a double narrative to tell a richer and more densly woven story.
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In that case, Lynda, there’s no doubt you’ll enjoy this book. Aunt Jane is an excellent narrator. By the way, if you use the National Library Service for the Blind, (BARD) you can download it in recorded format from their site. That narrator is also good.
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Hi Abbie.
Thanks for the additional info.
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Hi Lynda, thanks for dropping into Patty’s Worlds for some conversation.
I’m thinking of downloading this book to read too.
Right now, I am on another detective mystery kick. sometimes at night, after I’ve worked all day, all I want is brain candy.
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I have two digital casettes from NLS right now and each contains 6 books. I’ve just finished reading 2 of them. The first book on this cartridge was Ann Chiappetta’s book _Follow Your Dog_ and the second book is _Walking by Inner Vision: Stories & Poems by – ME. lol It was fun to listen to my own book – I wrote it 4 years ago so it was nice to refresh my memory. Polly Slavet from Perkins is the narrator and she is perfect for my writing. Next up on that casette is _Iron John_ by Robert Bly. I will read that slowly – so I can absorb it – Bly requires full attention and multiple readings – which is what I like best in literature. It is really nice to get so many books at one time – I do not download them but get them in my mailbox with my snail mail. It ils like having a surprise when they come – always books that are unexpected. I like randomness and chance – in everything.
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I used to get books that way. Now, for me visiting the BARD website is like leaping into a treasure trove!
I always tell people who call while I’m browsing and ask what I’m doing, “I’m visiting the library.”
I can spend literally hours browsing all the authors categories and different sections within. I get caught up in investigating the different narrators and of course there are the thousands of series.
Then there are the magazines and of course one cannot forget all the special editions such as books on music, art and Broadway.
There is everything anyone could ever want there and no way on earth to read it all.
Even if you prefer getting your books in the mail you should browse so you can tell them what you’d like to have.
Yes, surprises are good, but I’ve seen hundreds of books whilst browsing which made me think of you.
So much to read and so little time to do it.
😊
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Hey Abbie, great book review.
Where did you read this book? Did you buy it? Read on NLS? Book Share? Audible? Where?
Thanks.
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