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    Miss Julia Hits the Road
    Miss Julia Hits the Road
    Miss Julia Hits the Road
    Audiobook10 hours

    Miss Julia Hits the Road

    Written by Ann B. Ross

    Narrated by Cynthia Darlow

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    Miss Julia-that Southern spitfire of a certain age who is never less than charming, even when she's at her most opinionated-has been praised by Fannie Flagg as "one of the most delightful characters to come along in years." Don't miss Ann Ross's newest, Miss Julia Raises the Roof, coming April 2018 from Viking. In Miss Julia Hits the Road, she is becoming increasingly concerned about her gentleman friend, Sam, who has suddenly started wearing cowboy boots, sending her flowers, and writing bad poetry. And when he shows up on a Harley-Davidson Road King and asks her to hop on, she's convinced he's lost his mind. Meanwhile, her invaluable housekeeper, Lillian, has been evicted from her home by her greedy landlord. Deciding that Lillian's need is greater than her own fear (not to mention loss of dignity), Miss Julia takes Sam up on his offer and sets off on a motorcycle Poker Run to raise some fast cash. She's ready to risk life and limb in Sam's sidecar to save Lillian's home from the bulldozer, but will Miss Julia's scheme work?
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRecorded Books, Inc.
    Release dateOct 29, 2019
    ISBN9781980059721
    Miss Julia Hits the Road
    Author

    Ann B. Ross

    Ann B. Ross, who taught literature at the University of North Carolina at Asheville, is the author of Miss Julia Speaks Her Mind, one of the most popular Southern debut novels in years, Miss Julia Takes Over, Miss Julia Throws a Wedding, and Miss Julia Hits the Road. She lives in Hendersonville, North Carolina.

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    • 5/5
      With so much negative “news” bombarding us daily Ann B Ross gives us a welcome chance to relax and smile with the antics of Miss Julia and her friends.
    • 5/5
      These books are funny and entertaining. Love this author. A+++
    • 3/5
      Book number four in the popular series starring Miss Julia, a widow of a certain age. This time she gets her hackles up when she learns that a local slumlord is evicting all the poor African-American tenants, so he can demolish the homes and build a water bottling plant on the land. Miss Julia’s housekeeper, Lillian, is one of those tenants and she decides she will find a way to save the properties. I just love Miss Julia, who frequently gets embroiled in one scandal / scheme or another when she jumps to conclusions and/or fails to fully understand the implications of what she’s been told. But her heart is always in the right place. This time the big fund-raising effort centers on a motorcycle race, and one donor challenges Miss Julia and “other refined, quality women over age fifty” to ride along as a condition of a major donation. What’s a lady to do?! Miss Julia is just a hoot, and I was laughing aloud at several scenes. There are two subplots involving Hazel Marie and Mr Pickens, and Binkie and Deputy Coleman. I think the books can be enjoyed as stand-alone novels, but readers probably should start from the beginning to fully appreciate the relationships between the full cast of recurring characters. NOTE This is a re-read for me, but I first read it long before I joined Goodreads or Shelfari, so I don’t have the date recorded. I’m guessing it was shortly after this book was published. As I recall, I read the first book (Miss Julia Speaks Her Mind) and pretty quickly picked up the next two or three in the series.
    • 4/5
      Miss Julia on a motorcycle. For fans there is no bigger chuckle.
    • 4/5
      More of the irrespressible Miss Julia and her friends. This time they take on a land developer who throws Lillian and her neighbors out of their homes to build a bottling facility for a spring of water of amazing repute. Fun, funny and heartwarming despite itself.
    • 4/5
      I do enjoy most of my time spent with Miss Julia and her cast of friends and acquaintances. Having said that it seems that in every book Miss Julia has to do something that is so totally stupid as to be almost enough to make me stop reading the book. Nothing different this time there is that one "duh" thing. I realize it moves the story forward, I realize it creates a lot of tension but really, couldn't someone *else* do the stupid thing instead of this remarkable smart woman?

      I did have to laugh at the whole "ride a Harley" theme, Miss Julia is convinced that only people who are in motorcycle "gangs" are in clubs and they are all like Hells Angels. When she finds out that Sam has joined a club and that Mr. Pickens has encouraged him to join *his* club, I had flashes of memories. Memories of stories about Sturgis and the annual Rally that takes a town of about 5,000 souls and brings in about 500,000 bikers, most of whom are the nicest people in the world who just like to ride motorcycles and have fun for a week or 10 days.

      No one dies in this story so it doesn't qualify as a "murder mystery" but it is a good read, always assuming you can get past that TSTL moment.
    • 1/5
      If you're in the mood for a book where the main character is an openly opinionated, bossy, nosey, 75 years behind in her thinking, busybody then this is the book for you!Seriously! I've never read a book where the main character was so annoying.I can't believe that Ms Ross' editor published a book where the main character has such a large stick up her ass.I finished it only in hopes that she would recieve a much needed attitude adjustment by the end of the book. NOT!!!JMHOI only give it a 1/2 star for the fact that the author managed to get it published AND there is a whole series. Oh, and that's the lowest score I can give without not giving a score.
    • 5/5
      Lillian loose her house and Julia is finding a way to buy it back. Motorcycles, poker and pants come into play. None of these things Julia approves of. Will she end up doing any or all of these things.