Holy Roller Best Read || [Diane Wilson] - Holy Roller, Holy Roller In this rollicking memoir Diane Wilson a Texas Gulf Coast shrimper and the author of the highly acclaimed An Unreasonable Woman takes readers back to her childhood in rural Texas and into her family
- Title: Holy Roller
- Author: Diane Wilson
- ISBN: 9781933392820
- Page: 343
- Format: hardcover
Holy Roller Best Read || [Diane Wilson], Holy Roller, Diane Wilson, Holy Roller In this rollicking memoir Diane Wilson a Texas Gulf Coast shrimper and the author of the highly acclaimed An Unreasonable Woman takes readers back to her childhood in rural Texas and into her family of Holy Rollers By night at tent revivals Wilson gets religion from Brother Dynamite an ex con who finds Jesus in a baloney sandwich and handles masses of squirming poiIn this rollicking Holy Roller Best Read || [Diane Wilson] - Holy Roller, Holy Roller In this rollicking memoir Diane Wilson a Texas Gulf Coast shrimper and the author of the highly acclaimed An Unreasonable Woman takes readers back to her childhood in rural Texas and into her family
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Holy Roller Best Read || [Diane Wilson]
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Diane Wilson
Holy Roller is the childhood memoir of former shrimp boat captain and current activist Diane Wilson It is a follow up to her 2005 memoir An Unreasonable Woman, which details her fight against chemical plants and a multi billion dollar corporation Formosa Plastics upon learning her Texas county was the number one toxic polluter in the United States Holy Roller invites readers into the world of shrimping and praying that made Wilson the unreasonable woman she is today.As one can gather from the bo [...]
Considering the subject matter, I was disappointed to find myself fairly bored while reading this book It felt like fiction than a memoir, and thin fiction at that The way that dialect was used in Wilson s writing style felt forced, making the folksiness sort of unappealing It felt like the author was trying to recall a way of communicating that she shared as a child, but had long since outgrown I would rather have read this story in the author s genuine voice, as it is now Also, I was annoyed [...]
I picked up this book, because I had some interest in the holy roller lifestyle, as it was my childhood I was interested in the descriptions of these old churches However, the plot of the story seemed extremely pointless to me It s possible I missed something imperative, because I believe I laid the book down for a couple of weeks However, I must admit I found no value in this book whatsoever, except for the occasional humor of the old south and people who reminiscently reminded me of my own fam [...]
I ll finish this book one day if it s the end of me I ve met Diane Wilson, she s an amazing woman, she s done amazing things but her sentence structure and my brain seem to be fundamentally incompatible somehow Add that with a little too ripe a case of deja vu in reading about shrimpers and shrimp boats and coastal Texas towns, and it s been on my bedside table long enough that I should charge it rent.
Wilson s language captivated me when I picked this up randomly in the library By the end, though, everything seemed to be losing steam and I felt it stopped somewhat abruptly Still, an interesting dip into the world of southern pentecostalism, and it made me curious about her other book, An Unreasonable Woman.
THis was a fun read similar to A Girl Named Zippy Enjoyed it Because here story invovles gorwing up as a Pentecostal Christen there is plenty of religion but it is all in good fun.
A book that I found tedious and which I would not recommend, this memoir could have been intriguing For the full Vine review, you may visit the product page on.
I love that this book was written in a southern twang.
The title of this book is not HOLLY ROLLER, but Holy Roller Growing Up in the Church of Knock Down, Drag Out or, How I Quit Loving a Blue Eyed Jesus And it s a lulu.
perhaps not the book i was anticipating, given the title.
The memoir of a woman s childhood spent among fundamentalist Pentecostals in a Texas coastal town Constantly amusing and engaging.
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Damn fun little read Quick with a good story.
This is an interesting memoir and its locale, people and quality of narrative is very captivating It s one of my favorite memoirs.
I love the voice in this book straight out of the Pentecostal revival tent I found the last half of the book to be a little confusing, and thus less engaging, or I would have given this 4 stars.