Official Review: Tales from Piney Grove by Bobby Morrison

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Sounds like an interesting and thought provoking story! What hard working people struggling through good and bad. Thanks for the review!
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BriennaiJ wrote: 14 May 2018, 16:29
SABRADLEY wrote: 14 May 2018, 16:23
BriennaiJ wrote: 14 May 2018, 16:19

Definitely, try it if you have the time! Sometimes I feel as if the poor are happier without all the things that the better-off people have to try and make themselves happy.
I wholeheartedly agree with you!
Maybe the money breaks people away from simple human happiness, and start to connect happiness to material things that do not last forever.
I totally agree with this! It is important to not connect happiness to the material, and we ought to start looking around us for it. Great review, and I enjoyed reading it.
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AbbyGNelson wrote: 14 May 2018, 17:43 Sounds like an interesting and thought provoking story! What hard working people struggling through good and bad. Thanks for the review!
This is definitely a great story, I hope you get the chance to read it yourself!
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Its amazing how some people can make the best of any situation. It must have been hard to be a woman during that time, with so few options.
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A true account revolving around life in poverty-stricken South sounds interesting. As the author reminisced about his early years in Piney Grove, shouldn’t the book be under historical fiction? It is good that the book shows a different side of the 1960s Black America, and that it is well written and well edited. It is sad to read about the "city slickers" that led the girls astray. Not really my cup of tea, but I am glad you enjoyed it. Thank you for the review!
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It makes me sad to read about this girls who were tricked by the city boys. I never thought about that. Thank you for this great review!
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It's beautiful to appreciate and see positive things despite the unfortunate situations people might be in. I think this is a historical fiction that will make me value life more and to give importance to what I have because those are so much more compared to what others have.
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This sounds like a brilliant book dealing with something that is not often talked about. I have never thought about poverty in the 1960s but it was a reality as much as it is today. It also sounds like a really sad read, even though the people deal with all these troubles in a really positive way.
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This shows that anyone can be happy without luxury or any unnecessary things. You just have to contented and enjoy any situation both good or bad. This book looks boring but you can have lessons to learned thats why its recommendable.
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It makes me think of how life can be sometimes. No matter how hard a situation is there is always a solution. Someone can have nothing today and have something tomorrow. From rags to riches. Great review.
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memoirs are not typically my favorite genre but this sounds like a unique story about people that no one really knows much about. It sounds like a great commentary about adjusting to your lifestyle and what people are willing to do to better their lives.
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Wow! Such an enlightening review!
You´re totally right, that´s not what I think when I think about the 60s. My mother grew up in the 60s!
This book seems like something really special. It´s sad that women faced such a hard reality, but it´s not entirely surprising. I do love the idea of having fun with your means and learning to adapt. Of course, we should all strive for the best, but it´s also important to live in the now and do the best with what we´ve got.
Thanks for the review.
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Tales From Piney Grove sounds like a way to know about the 1960's in a poverty-stricken and isolated small town. I like learning about USA history through stories. Reading this book may give the reader more insight into some of the older generations who grew up in a small Southern community.
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The tale from pine grove patrays the nature of people in the church where most of people are on public show and not true seekers of God! They are material driven and discriminate the poor. As they could burst into loughter whenever Mr Wade the oldest member of the church preached against them
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