tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-75651837970423763992024-03-19T10:21:15.917-07:00Backcountry GirlsReviews of history and historical fiction books with a North Carolina slantJanet Phttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00663002699139133471noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7565183797042376399.post-38060769746611013852011-07-31T09:14:00.000-07:002011-07-31T09:14:03.229-07:00Folktales Book Review: The Jack Tales by Richard ChasePublisher: Houghton Mifflin
Date: 1943 (1971)
Format: paperback
Acquired: purchased used
Pages: 188
These Jack Tales, a staple of Appalachian folklore, were first recorded by Richard Chase in the early 1940s. The tales were collected from descendants of Council Harmon, who had continued to tell the stories into the 1880s and 1890s. Coming from the mountains of North Carolina, Tennessee, and Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05941919404657989208noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7565183797042376399.post-70829671621820910042011-07-17T15:35:00.000-07:002011-07-17T15:35:07.707-07:00Fiction Book Review: Velva Jean Learns to Fly by Jennifer NivenSeries: sequel to Velva Jean Learns to Drive
Publisher: Plume
Date: August 30, 2011
Format: ARC
Acquired: from LibraryThing Early Reviewers
Read: for review (I received my copy of this book in return for a fair and honest review, etc.)
Pages: 400
Reading time: three days
Nineteen-year-old Velva Jean Hart has had enough of her life in the North Carolina mountains with her husband, Harley Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05941919404657989208noreply@blogger.com0