I want to draw pink sparkly hearts around this post. (:
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Having grown up there, I can assure you that Sacramento is weirdly generic; if it has any distinguishing feature at all, it's that it's so entirely typical of every other medium-sized city in the U.S.
I had assumed The Jane Austen Book Club would be too "chick flick" for me, but your review is encouraging.
I want to draw pink sparkly hearts around this post.
It's the ice cream. I just know it.
I had assumed The Jane Austen Book Club would be too "chick flick" for me
I very much shared that assumption, and only got interested in reading it after I learned that Karen Joy Fowler wrote it. I think she's a really wonderful writer; she has a knack for telling the small stories of everyday people in a way that gives them meaning without making them overly dramatic.
Granted, I haven't spent a ton of time there, but I always think of Sacramento as overwhelmingly Californian--albeit in a different way than the coasts. To the outsider's eyes, it has some distinctive markers.
It's not the ice cream! I have trouble digesting ice cream. Your ep reviews, however, make me feel full and satisfied. (:
I guess having lived in California almost my entire life might make me blind to certain things that are different about Sacramento. To me, it's freeways and four-lane streets lined with strip malls and car dealerships. ::shudder::
Dagnabbit! Part of my carefully-constructed rationale for getting this ice cream maker attachment depends on my ability to foist most of the ice cream off on guests.
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Having grown up there, I can assure you that Sacramento is weirdly generic; if it has any distinguishing feature at all, it's that it's so entirely typical of every other medium-sized city in the U.S.
I had assumed The Jane Austen Book Club would be too "chick flick" for me, but your review is encouraging.
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It's the ice cream. I just know it.
I had assumed The Jane Austen Book Club would be too "chick flick" for me
I very much shared that assumption, and only got interested in reading it after I learned that Karen Joy Fowler wrote it. I think she's a really wonderful writer; she has a knack for telling the small stories of everyday people in a way that gives them meaning without making them overly dramatic.
Granted, I haven't spent a ton of time there, but I always think of Sacramento as overwhelmingly Californian--albeit in a different way than the coasts. To the outsider's eyes, it has some distinctive markers.
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I guess having lived in California almost my entire life might make me blind to certain things that are different about Sacramento. To me, it's freeways and four-lane streets lined with strip malls and car dealerships. ::shudder::
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