A Girl Named Zippy: Growing Up Small in Mooreland, Indiana
Selected Book Details
- Paperback
- Edition: Today Show Book Club
- Author: Haven Kimmel
- Publisher: Broadway
- Release Date: September 2002
- ISBN-10: 0767915054
- ISBN-13: 9780767915052
- List Price: $13.95
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Summaries and Customer Reviews provided by Amazon
SummaryWhen Haven Kimmel was born in 1965, Mooreland, Indiana, was a sleepy little hamlet of three hundred people. Nicknamed "Zippy" for the way she would bolt around the house, this small girl was possessed of big eyes and even bigger ears. In this witty and lovingly told memoir, Kimmel takes readers back to a time when small-town America was caught in the amber of the innocent postwar period–people helped their neighbors, went to church on Sunday, and kept barnyard animals in their backyards. |
Customer Reviews
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Entertaining Biography
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I lead a book club and this was one of our monthly reads. We are a group of baby boomers who laughed heartily over the humorous reminiscing of this delightful author. It brought back memories for us and helped some of us embrace our "disfunctional families" with a new light. It gives hope to all parents that even imperfect love can bring forth a functional, creative adult child. Kudos to all the "Ozzie and Harriets", but our kids can still love the rest of us too!
Never laughed so much!
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I read this book on the recommendation of a friend. She suggested that I keep a tally of the number of times I laughed outloud. I should have done it...I know it would have filled a sheet of paper. I didn't keep a tally, however, because I was too busy reading...and re-reading to my husband, because he wanted to know why I was laughing so hard.
Kimmel is an amazing writer! She skillfully describes the real world through the unassuming eyes of a child.
Great for all ages
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Three generations enjoyed this audio book, grandman 78, mom 53, and daugher 14. We laughed and laughed. I grew up in a very small town like Zippy and could relate to her many stories. Also listened to "She got up off the couch" and it was just as delightful.
Audio CD: Lake Woebegone without the wit
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I guess I was thinking this would be something along the lines of Garrison Keillor, but I found there to be no wit to this audio cd at all. If you like listening to boring, wholesome stories about people sewing clothes, getting up early to go to Church, and the like, you will love this book. Otherwise, just go do that yourself and save yourself the money.
The female voiceover is okay, fitting for telling stories about a small town. Sounds like a relatively young woman (under 40) who speaks without any major intonations, accents, or defects. At times the CD irritates me, but I think it's more the content.
A Girl Named Zippy
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This book cracks me up. I found myself laughing out loud throughout the book.
If you want to laugh and if you think we humans are a bit strange, you'll love this.
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