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https://youtu.be/9ZST6ZQ2ZHk

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4 stars, Highly readable

LEARNING TO SPEAK SOUTHERN
by Lindsey Rogers Cook

This novel is highly readable, it deals with the loss of a woman's brother and she returns home after a long absence to settle his affairs.

Much obliged to #sourcebooks for the complimentary copy of #learningtospeaksouthern I was under no obligation to post a review. ( )

This was a really good, heartfelt novel. It really reminds us that we really don’t know what people are going through or may have in the past and to not be so judgmental, as things often are not as they may be appearing. Lex is heading back to the US after having been on an “adventure” for the last few years, and she is heading back to the last place she said she’d return to.

Cami meets Lex with open arms, and knew she’d be back – it was just a matter of time before something brought her back, and Cami is more than happy to open her home up to her once again. Cami was a good friend to Lex’s mother, and was a second mother to Lex growing up, and often was the word of reason when her and her mother got in their weekly spats. Lex never quite understood her mothers anger towards her and has always struggled with her childhood, and never feeling like she was good enough.

Lex may not be so different from her mother after all, and Cami possibly has the answers she’s always wanted answered but in order to get these- she must complete tasks that Cami gives her each day. Keeping Lex busy, and her mind off of taking off again and her last task might just be the hardest thing she does- as she’s always owed that person an explanation.

Thank you to Sourcebooks Landmark for the free book. I look forward to picking up her other novel and will be reading any others she publishes in the future. I really liked how she brought it all together and had a lesson in it all. ( )

I had some doubts about the dysfunctional family aspect of the book to begin with but believe me...Lex and her family are dysfunctional with a capital D. Lex and her mother had a love/hate relationship, although there seemed not have been any love involved there at all. Lex also had never planned to ever return home. Of all the characters, Grant and Cami were the only ones that I actually liked...Lex never really came through for me although I understood why she was like she was to her family. Since her mother being dead was the reason she returned home, I would have thought she would have made more of an effort to perhaps learn and understand why her parents were like they were. It wasn’t a bad story by any means but I came away feeling slightly dirty. What the reader does learn is we need to be extremely careful of our words and our actions as they shape our lives and our outcomes more than we may never know. I once heard someone say that “A person may forget what you say. They might never understand what you do...but they will never ever forget how you made them feel.” This family should have had that little quote framed and hung in every room of the house. ( )