Helpful Score: 3
After deliberation, I am giving this book the 5 stars I truly feel it deserves. The beginning of the book did start out slow for me, as I was trying to wrap my head around someone selling their valuable belongings, their family keepsakes, for mere pennies. I wanted to shake her and make her stop! Then when her daughter arrived on the scene and didn't immediately put an end to the craziness...well I just couldn't get it. Dear reader, just keep reading!! You will come to understand the reasoning behind this woman's actions and all the secrets will be told.
This is a wonderful, wonderful story about an elderly southern woman who decides to clear out her mansion and have a yard sale....but so much more than that!
Coming to terms with ghosts from the past, a mother/daughter relationship, bigotry and prejudice, greed and hate and love.
Don't be fooled by the title, this is not a 'light' read, but one I recommend...highly!
This is a wonderful, wonderful story about an elderly southern woman who decides to clear out her mansion and have a yard sale....but so much more than that!
Coming to terms with ghosts from the past, a mother/daughter relationship, bigotry and prejudice, greed and hate and love.
Don't be fooled by the title, this is not a 'light' read, but one I recommend...highly!
Tremendous. Beautiful. And quite unique.
Love it. Exciting and heart string tuging .
Funny, quirky story about a woman who has decided she's ready to go so she sells everything she owns.
I (We!) loved this book. A chapter or so into it, I decided my husband would enjoy it as well, so we left it in the car and read it as we ran errands, etc. Splendid story - heartbreaking, but wonderful.
This book wasn't my cup of tea. I think the story had some potential, but I didn't care for the way it was executed.
Throughout the story were snippets of things with other townspeople that drove me nuts. They all were a bunch of greedy jerks. And I don't know why but I hated the name John Jasper. Every time I read it it bugged me. (weird, I know...) I didn't feel connected to any of the characters, not even Claudia, who I would think should be the one we should be able to connect with the most.
Throughout the story were snippets of things with other townspeople that drove me nuts. They all were a bunch of greedy jerks. And I don't know why but I hated the name John Jasper. Every time I read it it bugged me. (weird, I know...) I didn't feel connected to any of the characters, not even Claudia, who I would think should be the one we should be able to connect with the most.
Beautiful gift copy! Faith Bass Darling's Last Garage Sale is a story of what happens at the end of a life. What are the things you keep, lose or give away...What happens when one day you wake up knowing this will be your last day?
If you are saucy 70 yr. old Faith Bass darling, the richest gal in Bass Texas you decide on the spur of the moment to have a garage sale and sell all the things you once thought were so very, very important to you.
Faith wakes up on the last day of 1999 confused and alone, knowing that tonight she will die but before she goes she must have a huge garage sale because God woke her up and told her so!
Her husband and son are dead, her daughter is estranged. She is alone with a house full of treasures. Her mind is failing and she is moving back and forth in time reflecting on the parts of her life, good and bad that she can still remember.
She reconnects with friends & neighbors she has not seen for years with her garage sale who are delighted with her high priced merchandise going for pennies!
There are some heartbreaking, funny and bittersweet moments in this book.
If you are saucy 70 yr. old Faith Bass darling, the richest gal in Bass Texas you decide on the spur of the moment to have a garage sale and sell all the things you once thought were so very, very important to you.
Faith wakes up on the last day of 1999 confused and alone, knowing that tonight she will die but before she goes she must have a huge garage sale because God woke her up and told her so!
Her husband and son are dead, her daughter is estranged. She is alone with a house full of treasures. Her mind is failing and she is moving back and forth in time reflecting on the parts of her life, good and bad that she can still remember.
She reconnects with friends & neighbors she has not seen for years with her garage sale who are delighted with her high priced merchandise going for pennies!
There are some heartbreaking, funny and bittersweet moments in this book.
