THIS BOOK WAS JUST IN-BETWEEN FOR ME -- However, please make that 3 1/2 Stars!

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	• Between, Georgia Joshilyn Jackson Grand Central Publishing, 2007 - 320 pages average customer review:based on 54 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Fun book, great audio

I'm not a huge fan of authors reading their own work for audio. More than one decent text has been destroyed by the droning, nasal voice of a proud author who shouldn't have been allowed near a microphone. Happily, Ms. Jackson is a glorious exception to this rule. Her rendition of Between, Georgia is an absolute delight. She created consistent accents for each character that reflected their personalities beautifully. Listening to her is so much like settling into a porch swing with a glass of sweet tea for a chat with a friend, it's easy to overlook how technically well-done it was, really superb. I was completely drawn in by her narration, and I already miss Between's residents like old friends. Well, maybe not Bernise.

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Read. Immediately.

I bought this book as an audiobook to listen to on my iPod while I go trouncing around my town training for a 50K walk. I expected it to be fun, fluffy chick lit. I was wrong. This book is by far the best book I have read in AGES, and I read rather constantly. After being only about 1/3 of the way through it, I started recommending it to everyone I knew, blogged about it, bought it as a birthday present and sent it to my friends, and bought Joshilyn's first novel (gods in Alabama, which I devoured in just under 6 hours). I'm planning to buy lots of this book in print and give it to many, many people, and I will not stop talking about it for a very long time (just ask my husband, I think he's already sick of hearing me talk about the book and the author, of whom I am now a devout fan as both an author and a person, now that I'm pretending I know her because I've been stalking her blog and reading all of the archives). The audiobook, which is also read by Jackson, is STUPENDOUS, and she does a magnificent job of giving each character a unique voice without sounding at all silly (which is hard to do for a lot of professional actors, so bully for her!). I'm in love, and I have a new favorite contemporary author. So read it, listen to it, beg borrow or steal it, or just SHOOT IT STRAIGHT INTO YOUR ARM VEINS because this book will take you on a character-driven emotional roller coaster, and you'll wish you were at the heart of this loving, flawed, spunky, savage family and town.

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Loved This Book

I wasn't too sure about this book when I first got it, but quickly became engrossed. Nonny is a very relatable person, especially if you are like her in that you are your family's peacekeeper. It's an awkward place to be in. I really enjoyed the relationship between Nonny's (adoptive) mother Stacia and her aunt Genny. They are an example of how close sisters can be. Nonny goes through a lot over the course of this short novel, but the character evolution is amazing. I would absolutely love to read a follow up.

THIS BOOK WAS JUST IN-BETWEEN FOR ME -- However, please make that 3 1/2 Stars!

And with that said, it makes me feel BAD, because soooo many reviewers really enjoyed this book and rated it much higher. I, too, did enjoy this book, please don't not read this book! However, for me, something was just missing.

I was glad to see this book come out as I absolutely loved GODS IN ALABAMA. Ms. Jackson has got it goin' on when it comes to writing books, especially in the Southern genre.

The book starts out great, it caught my attention immediately and was funny! Who wouldn't laugh while reading of Hazel giving birth and all of the antics taking place during that moment -- then JUMP ahead to little Nonny Jane being all grown up. I guess I was hoping that we would go thru Nonny's childhood with her loving family and have some of that history told, but all of a sudden, she was a grown up.

The book is good -- Nonny is a great character, and her plate is certainly full trying to take care of everyone and everything. All of her aunts, mom, other "family", soon-to-be ex, her niece, they are all great. There are twists and turns that will surprise you. The references to signing were wonderful and educational.

I think what did it for me was the middle of the book. I read another reviewer found the middle to be slow, as did I.

However, this is one not to be missed. Read, enjoy, draw your own conclusions. I read here on AMAZON that Ms. Jackson is currently working on a novel called THE GIRL WHO STOPPED SWIMMING. Ms. Jackson, I will honestly look forward to reading this!

Thank you!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Pam

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A Deeply Emotional Novel with Realistic Characters

Between, Georgia, is a small town where nurse Bernese Frett lives with her twin sisters, Genny and Stacia, the latter of whom is deaf and quickly losing her eyesight. Nervous Genny translates for levelheaded Stacia while aggressive Bernese presides over the household and comes to own the town's sheriff and only attorney.

Hazel Crabtree, the rebellious daughter of scrappy neighbor Ona Crabtree, arrives on Bernese's doorstep in advanced labor. Once the newborn arrives, Hazel adamantly refuses to claim her. Although the father is unknown, Stacia lifts the baby to her heart and makes her intentions clear.

Stacia Frett will be the little one's mother, and Genny and Bernese will be there to help. Bernese arranges a shady but quick adoption and a baby that would have been a Crabtree becomes Nonny Jane Frett and finds a loving, albeit imperfect, home.

Later, in a hurtful letter to her mother, absent Hazel Crabtree details Nonny's birth and sends Ona Crabtree into an angry spin that ends with her having to watch her granddaughter grow up from an uncomfortable distance. Hard-living drunkard Ona Crabtree despises Bernese. Pious Bernese Frett returns the favor.

Nonny's finds herself standing between two families leveling weapons at one another. In the crossfire, she must make some hard decisions about how she will live the life she has been given.

Readers will love this story. This is a deeply emotional novel with well-drawn characters that seemingly live real lives.

The story progresses with the same anxiety found in the front car of a roller coaster ride. The reader receives an expertly patched quilt that shows how one life touches so many others.

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