Let's try this again (Sorry)
OK, as a few of you pointed out, I made the text box way too small the first time, so now it is a lot bigger. I tried to edit the first poll, but the only thing left of the code was the poll number, so I created a new one in this post. For those of you who already submitted a line, don't worry, I got you. For anyone who hasn't yet, please do in this post. I'll extend the deadline 24 hours. Here's the info again:
Back Jacket:
Flagg's new novel is the Lake Wobegon of the South. It is folksy and fresh, endearing and affecting, filled with humor and drama - and has an ending that would fill with smiling tears the Whistle Stop Lake...if only they had a lake...
It's first the story of two women in the 1980's, of gray-headed Mrs. Threadgoode telling her life story to Evelyn, who is in the sad slump of middle age. The tale she tells is also of two women - of the irrepressibly daredevilish tomboy Idgie and her friend Ruth, who back in the thirties ran a little place in Whistle Stop, Alabama, a Southern Cafe Wobegon offering good barbecue and good coffee and all kinds of love and laughter, even an occasional murder.
Excerpt:
Eating a cup of vanilla ice cream with a wooden spoon, Mrs. Threadgoode was reminiscing to Evelyn about the Depression...
"A lot of people died, one way or the other. It hit hard. Especially the colored, who never did have much to begin with. Sipsey said that half the people over there in Troutville would have froze or starved to death if it hadn't been for Railroad Bill."
This was a new name to Evelyn. "Who was Railroad Bill?"
Mrs. Threadgoode seemed surprised. "Didn't I ever tell you about Railroad Bill?"
"No, I don't believe you have."
"Well, he was a famous bandit. THey say he was a colored man that would sneak on the trains and throw food and coal off the government supply trains at night, and the colored people that lived along the tracks would come and get the stuff at daybreak and run home with it as fast as they could. I don't believe they ever did catch him...never did find out who he was...Grady Kilgore, who was a railroad detective friend of Idgie's, used to come in the cafe every day, and Idgie would laugh and say, 'I hear ol' Railroad Bill is still on the loose. What's the matter with you boys?'
"He used to get so mad, they must have put twenty extra men on the trains, at one time or another, and they offered a lifetime pass ont he L&N Railroad to whoever had information about him to come forth, but nobody did."
Poll Game 5, Book 1
Deadline is: Thursday, July 5th, at 9:00 PM EST (3 am GMT?).
Back Jacket:
Flagg's new novel is the Lake Wobegon of the South. It is folksy and fresh, endearing and affecting, filled with humor and drama - and has an ending that would fill with smiling tears the Whistle Stop Lake...if only they had a lake...
It's first the story of two women in the 1980's, of gray-headed Mrs. Threadgoode telling her life story to Evelyn, who is in the sad slump of middle age. The tale she tells is also of two women - of the irrepressibly daredevilish tomboy Idgie and her friend Ruth, who back in the thirties ran a little place in Whistle Stop, Alabama, a Southern Cafe Wobegon offering good barbecue and good coffee and all kinds of love and laughter, even an occasional murder.
Excerpt:
Eating a cup of vanilla ice cream with a wooden spoon, Mrs. Threadgoode was reminiscing to Evelyn about the Depression...
"A lot of people died, one way or the other. It hit hard. Especially the colored, who never did have much to begin with. Sipsey said that half the people over there in Troutville would have froze or starved to death if it hadn't been for Railroad Bill."
This was a new name to Evelyn. "Who was Railroad Bill?"
Mrs. Threadgoode seemed surprised. "Didn't I ever tell you about Railroad Bill?"
"No, I don't believe you have."
"Well, he was a famous bandit. THey say he was a colored man that would sneak on the trains and throw food and coal off the government supply trains at night, and the colored people that lived along the tracks would come and get the stuff at daybreak and run home with it as fast as they could. I don't believe they ever did catch him...never did find out who he was...Grady Kilgore, who was a railroad detective friend of Idgie's, used to come in the cafe every day, and Idgie would laugh and say, 'I hear ol' Railroad Bill is still on the loose. What's the matter with you boys?'
"He used to get so mad, they must have put twenty extra men on the trains, at one time or another, and they offered a lifetime pass ont he L&N Railroad to whoever had information about him to come forth, but nobody did."
Poll Game 5, Book 1
Deadline is: Thursday, July 5th, at 9:00 PM EST (3 am GMT?).