Monica Drahonovsky
The All-Girl Filling Station’s Last Reunion
by
Fannie Flagg
Monica Reads
By Monica Drahonovsky
Good day to you all.
Well, spring has sprung and the grass here is growing up green and healthy with a good dose of dandelions, which make it even more springy. So, it is time for us all to put a spring in our step and have some fun flexing our smile muscles.
This book will do the above and much more. You will be taken for a ride over a period of time that was pre-World War II to the present with a cast of characters that will make you smile and wish you were related to them.
You will fall in love with Sookie. She is on a search for her own self-identity and you will be amazed, along with Sookie, at what she finds. Sookie is me. Sookie is you. Sookie is all the women in your world and she keeps us on track.
She is a bird lover with four adult children that make you think. How did that happen. I only thought it could happen to me.
Sookie’s journey is complex and time-sensitive over many years and across the continent. We start in the South and travel to Wisconsin and then to California. We learn a lot about the WASPS during World War II. Fannie Flagg brings to life the fears and experiences of young men and women sharing time and space with death and opportunities and hope.
When the author solves one problem for Sookie, another one is presented and the reader is cast into another dilemma.
I fell in love with the cast of characters, the times, the place and the WASPS. This is the third time I have taken this book off my shelf so that I could reconnect with Sookie and friends. I have never been disappointed and I loved it as much on the third read as I did the first. Buy the book or get it from the library or down off your own shelf. You will feel good.
Monica Reads is InDepthNH.org’s latest column. It is written by Monica Drahonovsky who is known for her love of history and her lifelong love for reading. She has a bachelor’s degree in History, with a minor in English, along with teaching credentials. “My years of reading for leisure and pleasure have given me the insight to read a book and analyze the author’s baggage, cargo and ability to write the language of his/her mind and utilize the gift of prose to educate and entertain the reader. Go get a book, read it and enjoy the adventure.” Contact Monica at mawest@tds.net