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Nothing with Strings: NPR's Beloved Holiday Stories

av Bailey White

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For more than a decade, Bailey White has delivered a story each Thanksgiving to National Public Radio's All Things Considered listeners. Long awaited by her many fans, Nothing with Strings is the entire collection of these Thanksgiving stories, published together for the first time.

With wit and charm, White writes about an almost-gone little town where a spoon player is a guardian angel, an old woman fears that John James Audubon is living in her attic, and a homely governess wins a baby bull in a raffle and loses her heart. It's the kind of place where Heavenly Blue morning glories grow in through the windows of old houses and funeral food is shared on a Greyhound bus on a fall afternoon. You may not have ever been there, but you will feel right at home. White's beautifully written stories, teetering on the edge of the unreal, are sure to bring back memories you don't really have.

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2½ stars.

Lorna Raver did a good job with the narration but unfortunately, I found the stories themselves were only OK. ( )
  leslie.98 | Jun 27, 2023 |
These stories may have broadcast around the holidays, but the actual stories have nothing to do with Thanksgiving or Christmas. And if you are looking for heartwarming and cheerful tales, keep looking. These poignant snapshots of people’s lives are well written, but are so sad they verge on being depressing. Abandonment, dementia, and death figure largely in them. And don’t expect the collection to be neatly tied up in a satisfying end, either. I wish whoever titled it and chose the cover art had picked something more descriptive to the book and less misleading. Perhaps dead roses on a grave in a cemetery would have enlightened readers as to what lay inside its cover. Yes, it’s well written for what it is, and the narrator is quite good, also, but in keeping with the holiday theme, I’m thankful it was only five hours long. ( )
  Maydacat | Feb 6, 2020 |
Nothing With Strings - B.White
Audio performance by Lorna Raver
4 stars

Years ago, I enjoyed hearing Bailey White’s read her stories on NPR. I know I still have cassette tapes of some of these stories around somewhere, although I don’t have the means to play them anymore. This is a collection of about a dozen short stories that were broadcasted yearly on Thanksgiving. Some of the stories do have a holiday setting, but mostly they are just good stories of the Deep South with quirky characters in quirky circumstances. I was disappointed that White did not read these stories herself, but Lorna Raver did a good job. I enjoyed them. Short vignettes like these are perfect for passing time while running holiday errands (another trip to the grocery store for the one thing that I forgot again.) ( )
  msjudy | Nov 21, 2018 |
From the title, I was expecting a collection of holiday stories. Nope. Not here. Only one story revolved around the holiday season. What I got was a collection of random stories that would be classified as Southern fiction. Most of the stories left me wondering what just happened. A lot of them felt incomplete. Most of them went over my head. I wouldn't have finished the collection, but I needed it for a challenge. The one story I did enjoy was "Bus Ride". It was a simple story that revolved around a group of strangers on a bus ride together. ( )
  jguidry | Jan 21, 2018 |
Not at all the quality I would expect from Bailey White. These stories sucked you in, but then abruptly ended short of any real resolution. And why didn't this radio personality read her own work? I wonder if she could have imbued them with something more. The reader had a most annoying fake Southern accent.
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For more than a decade, Bailey White has delivered a story each Thanksgiving to National Public Radio's All Things Considered listeners. Long awaited by her many fans, Nothing with Strings is the entire collection of these Thanksgiving stories, published together for the first time.

With wit and charm, White writes about an almost-gone little town where a spoon player is a guardian angel, an old woman fears that John James Audubon is living in her attic, and a homely governess wins a baby bull in a raffle and loses her heart. It's the kind of place where Heavenly Blue morning glories grow in through the windows of old houses and funeral food is shared on a Greyhound bus on a fall afternoon. You may not have ever been there, but you will feel right at home. White's beautifully written stories, teetering on the edge of the unreal, are sure to bring back memories you don't really have.

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