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Summary: Really, really funny
Review: Having grown up in the South, I could hear Miss Julia's voice clear as a bell. I knew a lot of ladies who acted and sounded just like her. This lady is a jewel - there were many times that I laughed out loud. I highly recommend this book.
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Summary: Miss Julia rises to a shocking occasion
Review: When confronted with tangible evidence that her recently deceased, wealthy and proper husband had fathered a child with another woman, Miss Julia, Southern and Presbyterian down to her basic DNA, she takes mother and child into her home. Plots multiply and thicken when Miss Julia's inheritance attracts a platoon of scoundrels of the seediest Southern varieties. As the fast-paced and very funny story progresses, we get to watch prim Miss Julia evolve into a more honest and compassionate human being, one who is, indeed, quite capable of "speaking her mind."
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Summary: What a Hoot!
Review: Miss Julia Speaks Her Mind is such a hoot of a book! My mom recommended that I read it, but I had been a little slow getting around to it. I wasn't sure that I could relate to a story about a 60-year old widow. Boy was I wrong!Miss Julia's husband has passed away and he left her the sole beneficiary of his estate...and with the knowledge that he had been carrying on an affair for over ten years. His mistress shows up on the doorstep and drops off her ten year old son and says she'll be back soon from beauty college. That starts off a whole undoing for Miss Julia and her once simple life. To add to the comedy, Miss Julia is very serious, uptight,and naive...but Ann Ross just throws in comic twists and hilarious characters to make you laugh. I think this book would lighten anyones mood.
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Summary: Nice and Light
Review: Miss Julia Speaks Her Mind, is a nice light a very quick read. It is perfect for a day that you'd like to spend drawn into a story that does not bring you down and is not too serious.
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Summary: Don't waste your time
Review: I entered the Miss Julia series hoping it would follow the lines of other memorable books by Southern women. They are memorable, but only because Miss Julia is an old prude who is so codgery and judgemental she just makes me want to scream. These books are not fun or interesting. Try reading Lee Smith if you want characters who have substance and hold your interest.
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Summary: "Miss Julia Says it Like it Is!
Review: Miss Julia, a recently bereaved and newly wealthy widow, is only slightly bemused when one Hazel Marie Puckett appears at her door with a youngster beside her. Hazel unceremoniously announces that the child is the bastard son of Miss Julia's late husband. Suddenly, this longtime church member and pillar of her small Southern community finds herself in the center of an unseemly scandal-and the guardian of a wan nine-year-old whose mere presence turns her life upside down. She is unkindly toward the boy at first, but as one event leads to another in the book,
Miss Julia's heart begins to warm. A great read-very light and fun!
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Summary: Laughed out loud!
Review: I admit, I wasn't sure about this book at first, then after about 5 pages, I was hooked. I sat up all night reading, and while there were two scenes that I found illogical given Miss Julia's nature, and the "disease" really did go on too long, I heartily recommend it. As a Southerner who gets annoyed by writers portraying our region as full of hicks and oddballs (okay, we do have our share!) this book does a great job of showing a small town like it is way too often. I'm definitely up for the rest of the series if they're like this first book.
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Summary: Love Miss Julia!
Review: What a rollicking good book! There was a point when I was laughing so hard I had to put the book down and wipe my eyes. The story itself was fun but very nerve-wracking as the situation got more and more out of control, kind of like an episode of "Frasier" gone awry. The story is written in first person, as told my Miss Julia, whose husband has recently passed away and left her with a fortune. He was the kind of man who says that women shouldn't be allowed to handle money because it's too complicated for the female mind. For their entire marriage, he dealt her out a pittance of an allowance, and when he suddenly died, left her with millions, which she was happy to spend, enjoying her standing in the church and community. Her pastor agrees with her husband about women and money and valiantly tries to relieve her of her burden. Then one day a woman shows up at her door and dumps a child on her saying that he is her late husband's offspring. She is shocked and humiliated to find that he'd been cheating on her for at least 10 years. Well, one thing leads to another and the situation quickly gets wildly out of control as Miss Julia tries to hang on to her money, her sanity and her reputation. I just loved this book. The writing was superbly styled and the characters impeccably portrayed.
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Summary: Good, fun escapism
Review: If you feel like forgetting your troubles for a few hours, here's a great way to do it. Miss Julia is a wonderful character and I'm very happy to see there are already two follow-ups. They're on my shopping list for sure.
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Summary: Hilarious From Beginning To End!!
Review: This may not be a literary masterpiece, but from page one until the end it provided terrific entertainment. It was funny, tender, sentimental and even sad in some parts. As a southerner I identified with the characters. When Miss Julia takes Little Loyd and marches him down Main Street I wanted to cheer. Her hilarious ride to Spartenburg with her maid, Lillian, and Hazel Marie kept me in stiches--A must read for everyone who loves small towns and older heroines.
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