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Travelin' Light: Stories and Revised Memories Kindle Edition

by Mary Lois Timbes (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
4.9 4.9 out of 5 stars 20 ratings
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A collection of stories about women as they grew up and learned about life in the latter part of the 20th century. Thought-provoking and heartwarming, the stories provide snapshots of characters and situations in the era of an awakening Women's Rights movement. The perspective is fresh, the stories unique, and the voice of the author is clear and charming.
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    113 pages
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    December 6, 2022
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    1533 KB
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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B0BPF4V3HT
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ December 6, 2022
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 1533 KB
  • Simultaneous device usage ‏ : ‎ Unlimited
  • Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
  • Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
  • Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 113 pages
  • Customer Reviews:
    4.9 4.9 out of 5 stars 20 ratings

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Mary Lois Timbes

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Growing up in Alabama in the 1950s might have shaped Mary Lois’ outlook on hypocrisy, humor, love, aging, wonderment, and death. She has a unique approach to life itself, an approach which permeates everything she writes from the personal memoirs in ME THINKS, to the wistful romance of her novel THAT WAS TOMORROW, the touching short stories and vignettes in her collection TRAVELIN' LIGHT--and the nostalgic histories of Fairhope, Alabama, in THE FAIR HOPE OF HEAVEN and MEET ME AT THE BUTTERFLY TREE. Her writing reveals intriguing insights to a wide scope of experiences of a woman as the 20th century closed and the 21st began to dawn.

Mary Lois has lived in New York City, Geneva, New Orleans, Atlanta, Hoboken, and Fairhope, Alabama. She currently is living in Kingston, New York.

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LouiseK
5.0 out of 5 stars Lively and touching
Reviewed in the United States on January 17, 2024
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I enjoyed this book immensely. Mary Lois is a gifted story teller who brings her characters and their world to life with humor and compassion.
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Savan
5.0 out of 5 stars A time a place remembered well
Reviewed in the United States on October 15, 2022
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I have read every book Mary Lois Timbes has written and this is one of my favorites! She is a exceptional writer and the memorable stories in this book took me back to similar times and memories. Very clever and fun to read as most can identify with these events and interactions in some way. It is difficult to do short stories that somehow weave together showing a time and place with interesting results. I look forward to her next book.
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Karen L. Kimbrough
5.0 out of 5 stars A great way to spend a late summer afternoon.
Reviewed in the United States on September 1, 2022
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This author brings the reader into the room where the action is happening. She also lets us know the heart of the main character in each story enough so that we start to feel we kind of know them. I think that’s rather extraordinary and makes this a treasure of a read. I plan to keep it in my library so I can reread it at some future time. It just feels comfortable to own it.
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Edith A Bullock
5.0 out of 5 stars Loved this collection of short stories
Reviewed in the United States on September 8, 2022
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Mary Lois Timbes shares from her wealth of experience and expertise in this collection of short stories. They are deftly and expertly written and show the breadth of her skill in developing totally realistic characters. I especially loved that they are from the same and similar growing up times and experiences as mine. I enjoyed reading all in one afternoon and look forward to rereading again. Hopefully there will be more to follow.
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Nancy C.
5.0 out of 5 stars Delightful read
Reviewed in the United States on August 22, 2022
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I thoroughly enjoyed spending an afternoon with these stories. I appreciated the exploration of themes -- women's education, sexuality, writing -- and the deft turn of phrase on its pages.
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Ronald Hill
5.0 out of 5 stars A delightful book.
Reviewed in the United States on September 3, 2022
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A delightful book. Living, loving and learning with a “... new way of walking in the 1950’s” Ronald
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Tim Buck
4.0 out of 5 stars Actual American literature
Reviewed in the United States on July 11, 2023
I find this thing to be exceptional. At first aural “glance,” I wasn’t sure about the author’s aged, grainy voice for the audio version. But soon, I realized that the authenticity and her subtle spoken elan transcended such a quibble. I especially liked the part of the story including Van Cliburn’s sublime rendition of the Tchaikovsky. So many great pianists since but none surpassing that particular vintage studio occasion of artistry, humility, and a dissolving into a musical miracle. I want to read or listen to and discover more about the author’s characters as well as the alluring depth of plot or narrative.
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Scott Isenberg
5.0 out of 5 stars Coming of Age is a journey, not a destination
Reviewed in the United States on April 2, 2023
In “Catcher in the Rye,” Holden Caulfield tells us that whenever he reads a really fine book, the experience leaves him with a desire to know its author. I am the opposite. I’d prefer NOT to know the author of a book that I admire. Conversely, if I know the author before reading her work, I approach the book with apprehension, fearful that I won’t be able to say nice things about it after reading it.

So, as a facebook friend of Mary Lois Timbes, I was hesitant to dip into Travelin’ Light. My fears were groundless. This book of short stories-cum-memoirs is wide-ranging in its physical and emotional landscape and stylistically eclectic. It is free of both tortured prose and easy cliches. The stories are well-paced and interestingly structured. When you least expect it, an original and unusual description or surprising remark or memorable observation leaps off the page, grabs you by the lapels, and demands to be seen and heard. These are, for the most part, coming-of-age stories of a young and middle-aged woman whose coming-of-age is perpetual.

Approaching these stories with skepticism, as I did, makes the actual reading experience even more pleasurable.
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