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Title: Queen Bee of Mimosa Branch by Haywood Smith ISBN: 0-312-98939-3 Publisher: St. Martin's Press Pub. Date: 19 October, 2003 Format: Mass Market Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.82 (33 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Recovery in a small Southern town
Comment: "Queen Bee" is a book that explores the processes of self-examination and recovery from life's abrupt curves in the setting of a small Southern town that has both supportive as well as suffocating aspects. Fifty-year-old and newly divorced Linwood Scott did not want to move back to her childhood home in Mimosa Branch, GA to live with her overbearing, elderly parents and an aunt, uncle, and brother - all with medical or personal problems. But Lin's life had taken a dramatic left turn when her husband of thirty years completely depleted the family's financial resources in an out-of-control pursuit of an exotic dancer.
Though leery of the closeness and nosiness of her hometown, Lin quickly finds support among old friends, even finding work in a drugstore where she worked as a teenager. The author has a keen eye for the Southern manners, think, and talk that Lin had gotten away from in her life as a suburban matron. But the nagging issue for Lin is to come to grips with her apparent lack of understanding of men.
The author conveniently supplies the male element in the form of the smooth, handsome owner/pharmacist of her drugstore. Lin, despite many misgivings, simply cannot resist his charms and her own needs for self-reclamation. Though Lin gains strength from an affair, it is done at the sacrifice, as many readers may feel, of the doc to stereotypical characterization.
In addition, the concerns of the political corruption of Mimosa Branch, a not uncommon fact of small-town Southern life, provide a useful device for the repair of Lin's self-assurance, as she becomes a part of a vigorous campaign to combat the forces of city hall.
There may be just a bit too much feel-good about this novel. It is not totally implausible that many long-standing family issues can be resolved, a completely disconsolate and rejected woman finds herself and triumphs over an insensitive male, and the town's boss is sent packing, all within a few weeks, but belief may be stretched. Nonetheless, the novel does have a certain appeal.
PS. For non-Georgian readers, Mimosa Branch is the pseudonym for the very real town of Flowery Branch.
Rating: 5
Summary: Books get NO BETTER than this!
Comment: After thirty years of marriage Linwood Scott's husband ran off with a stripper. With no money and a broken heart, Lin was forced to return to the home of her eccentric parents near Atlanta, Georgia. She knew things would be crazy when she pulled up to the house and witnessed Uncle Bedford stride out the front door in nothing but Depends, carrying a TV tray with his shoes on it, yelling accusations at the empty air about a boy stealing his shoes.
***** This gives readers the PERFECT example of how hilarious this novel was for me to read! The book is overflowing with such unforgettable characters, quotes (from long deceased people), and a few serious messages.
This is the type of book that begins when the main character has hit rock bottom and readers cheer them on as they pull themselves up and become even better than before! I cannot recommend it highly enough and will never let this book go! *****
Reviewed by Detra Fitch.
Rating: 5
Summary: Great Mother's Day Gift
Comment: While some characterization is overstated, the truth rings true enough to bring smiles of recognition. Always fishing for a perfect mother's day gift, and being satisfied with something acceptable, it was a treat to have this book hit the mark of being appreciated far beyond its cost. Come to it with a light and playful mood and be entertained.
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Title: The Red Hat Club by Haywood Smith ISBN: 0312316933 Publisher: St. Martin's Press Pub. Date: 16 September, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: The Red Hat Society(TM) : Fun and Friendship After Fifty by Sue Ellen Cooper ISBN: 0446679763 Publisher: Warner Books Pub. Date: 01 April, 2004 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: The Girlfriends Club: A Novel by Judith Henry Wall ISBN: 0743465113 Publisher: Pocket Books Pub. Date: 01 January, 2003 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Secrets In Satin by Haywood Smith ISBN: 0312961596 Publisher: St. Martin's Press Pub. Date: 15 April, 1997 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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Title: Border Lord by Haywood Smith ISBN: 0312978596 Publisher: St. Martin's Press Pub. Date: 15 April, 2001 List Price(USD): $6.50 |
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