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[...] 2006 you gave us “Hot Dish” set in upper Minnesota. This year you return us to Fawn Creek, MN. Well specifically to a [...]

By: Jayne

Jayne — Fri, 27 Oct 2006 10:35:55 +0000

Meril if you do decide to try HOT DISH, you’ll see in the author’s note that Brockway did indeed base her pageant on Princess Kay of the Milky Way.

By: Meril

Meril — Fri, 27 Oct 2006 06:35:37 +0000

I haven’t read this book yet, but the idea of the butter heads and the dairy pageant are definitely based on reality.

I’m planning on buying the book primarily because of the Minnesota setting. I haven’t read anything else by Brockway (and I doubt any of her historicals were set in Minnesota… ^_-) so I have nothing to judge this one against, unless it’s similar works by other authors. There are a few.

By: DS

DS — Thu, 26 Oct 2006 20:59:51 +0000

I have been waiting for this! I always thought Brockway would be a decent contemporary writer. I always found myself liking bits of some of her historicals and from your review I think the bits I liked are what has carried over.

By: Rosario

Rosario — Thu, 26 Oct 2006 19:08:19 +0000

I agree with Keishon, we already know Brockway’s very versatile. Considering she could write both the wonderfully light comedy that was The Bridal Season and the equally wonderful dark and angsty All Through the Night, I’m going to trust she won’t have any trouble doing the switch from historical to contemp.

By: Sarah

Sarah — Thu, 26 Oct 2006 17:52:37 +0000

Oh a book set in Minnesota! Not many of those out there. I’m going to have to give it a try.

By: Keishon

Keishon — Thu, 26 Oct 2006 16:49:04 +0000

Connie Brockway is very versatle to me and I plan to read this when it comes out. Good to know that you liked it, Jayne. Thanks for the review!

By: Connie Brockway

Connie Brockway — Thu, 26 Oct 2006 16:44:41 +0000

Dear Jayne,

Thank you for the lovely letter. I am so pleased your uneasy feelings proved groundless, delighted that you liked the book, and really downright giddy over your response to Jenn Lind. Because one of the reasons I wanted so much to write a contemporary was that I wanted to create heroines who weren’t larger than life and sympathetic and self-sacrificing, but who were flawed and sometimes ignoble but, in spite of that, still struggling to be better than they are. Because, well, I am.

And with that little confession, I’ll putter off.

Best!

Connie Brockway

By: Nicole

Nicole — Thu, 26 Oct 2006 15:24:28 +0000

Oh, I think I’m going to have to read this one. It sounds funny. I’m from the Midwest, but damn, most of those stereotypes? Are so based in reality. Fargo? Yes, I’ve met people who talk just like that. Sounds like a really fun book. So we’ll see.