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Summary: cold sassy tree
Review: Olive Ann Burns is my hero! I read about one book a month and have since I graduated form college in 1986. Cold Sassy Tree is the only book that I have ever read twice. I have recommended it to probably 100 people and over half have thanked me and/or passed it on to someone else.
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Summary: KEEPING THE TOWN IN SCANDAL AND STITCHES!
Review: Olive Ann Burns has created (or recreated) a fictitious small town in rural Georgia set in naive 1906. A town where women are easily shocked--yet eagerly gossip about everyone else's business. Will, grandson of the town's leading store owner, relates his family misadventures and schoolboy pranks with candid humor. His vivid imagination and juvenile interpretation of adult motives provide a rollicking soap opera, for even as one chapter closes, there is a hint of trouble on the next page. Between those outlandish Blakeslees and those oddball Tweedys, the nonsense never ends in his crazy family. To the delight of readers of all ages! Burns scatters a few sobering themes in this longer-than- average novel (not YA): Civil War prejudices flourish; town kids vs the lintheads from Milltown; pneumonia and primitive medical knowledge at the turn of the century. How much must one family endure in its embarrased but sincere attempt to honor the last wishes of a beloved relative? Yup, Cold Sassy (named for a vanished gove of Sasparilla trees) seems destined/doomed to an continous chain of social shocks--ever since Grandpa stunned his own family by announcing his decision to marry his milliner, Miss Love, just 3 scant weeks after Grandma's burial! It is hard to say which is more scandalized: the town or his own family... Will is torn between loyalty to his Grandpa (You're the son I never had, boy) and his intermittant respect for his parents. He also tries to balance his desires to befriend a mill girl yet maintain his social standing with his peers. This hilarious story reveals the internal strategies and struggles of women at war in a restrictive society. Emotional upheavals abound as Grandpa sets prissy Cold Sassy on its ears, with his crazy notions of family propriety and how to conduct commerce. Can Will survive to grow up as his own man one day? Must he forget his dreams of a profitable farm in order to honor/obey Grandpa? And which boyhood treasures will he keep as an adult? This book is darling and would make a wonderful comic mini-series. Teenagers: don't be put off by the length--you'll wish it never ends!
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Summary: Not worth your time!!
Review: This book, Cold Sassy Tree, by Olive Ann Burns, does not live up to its reviews. The Washington Post said "Rich with emotion, humor and tenderness...a novel about an old man growing young, a young man growing up and the modern age coming to a small southern town." To me, this book is not only un-humorous, but, as it was my 9th grade summer reading, I had to force myself to run my eyes over the page and comprehend the plot. Oh let me correct myself: there was no plot. If you wish to read a good book, worth your while, do NOT read this one.
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Summary: School Report
Review: I had to read this for my 8th grade summer reading and now have to defend it in a game like Survivor. I was seeing what the reviews said and decided to write one myself. I found it very interesting. I was sucked into it's own little world for a few hours. It just was a great book.
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Summary: A Comment On Life
Review: I read this book for a Sophmore English summer reading assignment. I admit that I found the beginning to be slow moving at times but overall it was a moving tribute to daily life. There were twists and surprises every time you turned another page. I felt that it's comment on life was accurate for the time period, and the emotions expressed from each character were comparable to even my own life. Basic things, such as a first kiss or anger towards an annoying aunt, came alive with detail and feeling. I loved the story; it's a must read.
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Summary: The First Book That Made Me Cry
Review: I thought COLD SASSY TREE was the best book I've read in a long time! It was actually the first book that made me cry! It was funny, sad, edgy, comical, and heartwarming all together! The book will keep u interested all the way through! I suggest this book to anyone and to all of you guys who have to read it for high school, do read it!
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Summary: Amanda's Review
Review: I found the book very boring, but the story was good.
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Summary: A true representation of the South
Review: I am from Georgia and grew up there. I am now in the US Air Force and I live on the other side of the world. In high school we had to read this book and I really enjoyed it then, mostly because we got to curse in school legally! But now it reminds me of the leisurely pace at which the South moves and the book really does capture the emotion and physical sense of growing up in the South. If you're from the South it is a nice book to thumb through and remind you of where you are from.
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Summary: Very well written
Review: I loved this book as it carried me back to the early 1900's and a small town in Georgia. Two areas in particular that caught my attention were the relationships that the grandfather had. The first one was with his 14 year old grandson(the main character, Will Tweedy).They were truly friends who confided in one other not as relatives, but as best friends. Perhaps the most interesting relationship was the one that he had with his beautiful housekeeper who slept in another room and who was also his new bride! He spent a great deal of time "wooing" her and I do believe that we have sorely missed this very romantic side in other contemporary novels!
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Summary: Cold Sassy Tree, southern to the core.
Review: Olive Ann Burn's Cold Sassy Tree, told through the eye's of Will Tweedy, a sixteen year old boy, witnesses to the reader the trials, sorrows, and experiences witnessed by the main character. The novel is filled with mixed emotions and difficult experiences. However, the novel overcomes all hardships to end with a pleasing finale worthy of Olive Ann Burns.
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