Together by Book Girls Guide » All Posts https://together.bookgirlsguide.com/discuss/discussion/2024-reading-challenge-discussion-groups/icymi-books-published-in-2013/whistling-past-the-graveyard-by-susan-crandall/feed/ Thu, 16 Apr 2026 11:00:23 +0000 https://bbpress.org/?v=2.6.14 en-US https://together.bookgirlsguide.com/discuss/topic/baking-as-a-stress-release/#post-2355 <![CDATA[Reply To: Baking as a stress release]]> https://together.bookgirlsguide.com/discuss/topic/baking-as-a-stress-release/#post-2355 Tue, 27 Feb 2024 14:02:43 +0000 Jaimette I love that you have several go to options!  Driving was my activity, but now I work from home and haven’t really found a replacement.  I don’t mind cooking/baking but the clean-up. 🙁

]]> https://together.bookgirlsguide.com/discuss/topic/loved-the-characters-in-this-book/#post-2336 <![CDATA[Reply To: LOVED the characters in this book! ]]> https://together.bookgirlsguide.com/discuss/topic/loved-the-characters-in-this-book/#post-2336 Fri, 23 Feb 2024 20:33:42 +0000 Heidi I read this book this month also. It has become one of my all time favorite books. I loved the relationship between Starla and Eula! Eula reminded me of the maid I had while growing up in the early sixties. Her name was Daisy and I loved her so. She was kind and attentive to me. I was heart broken when she quit when I was about 5. With improvements in civil rights she was now able to attend nursing school. Until this time blacks were not allowed to do so. Being a nurse was a dream of hers. I’m sure she mage a wonderful nurse and her patients were luck to have her.
<p style=”text-align: left;”>I agree with Jaimette that Starla seemed older than nine years old. But I still fell in love with this book and Starla’s journey and the people she met along the way. Most of them anyway.</p>

]]> https://together.bookgirlsguide.com/discuss/topic/baking-as-a-stress-release/#post-2335 <![CDATA[Reply To: Baking as a stress release]]> https://together.bookgirlsguide.com/discuss/topic/baking-as-a-stress-release/#post-2335 Fri, 23 Feb 2024 20:21:26 +0000 Heidi <p style=”text-align: left;”>I loved this book for so many reasons, including the love of baking. I bake for fun, for cookies and my infamous cheesecakes. I can’t go to a pot luck without being asked to bring a cheesecake. Which is fine because they aren’t something I make for myself.</p>
For “a thinking activity” I enjoy making cards with rubber stamps and die cuts. If I’m not doing it with friends it’s a good time to be thinking about whatever is on my mind.

I also enjoy doing Diamond Paintings. I find it very relaxing. Sometimes I do it quietly while thinking things over. I also find this a great time to listen to books on audible.

 

 

]]> https://together.bookgirlsguide.com/discuss/topic/baking-as-a-stress-release/#post-2319 <![CDATA[Baking as a stress release]]> https://together.bookgirlsguide.com/discuss/topic/baking-as-a-stress-release/#post-2319 Tue, 20 Feb 2024 20:02:45 +0000 Jaimette <p style=”text-align: left;”>I really liked how Eula baked and taught Starla to bake as a way of working through her feelings.  Especially since then she sold or shared the goods, instead of overindulging as she had a lot of thinking to do!</p>
Does anyone have other productive “thinking “ activities?

]]> https://together.bookgirlsguide.com/discuss/topic/loved-the-characters-in-this-book/#post-2318 <![CDATA[Reply To: LOVED the characters in this book! ]]> https://together.bookgirlsguide.com/discuss/topic/loved-the-characters-in-this-book/#post-2318 Tue, 20 Feb 2024 19:58:51 +0000 Jaimette I did read it this month.  I am not sure a child Starla’s age thinks like she is portrayed, but I am happy that it all worked out in the end.

 

]]> https://together.bookgirlsguide.com/discuss/topic/loved-the-characters-in-this-book/#post-2311 <![CDATA[LOVED the characters in this book! ]]> https://together.bookgirlsguide.com/discuss/topic/loved-the-characters-in-this-book/#post-2311 Sat, 17 Feb 2024 18:06:01 +0000 Lynne Bongette While I might say the plot itself is a bit farfetched, I absolutely loved the characters.  Anyone else read it this month?

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