Reading the Sweet Oak, Jan Stites
Reading the Sweet Oak, Jan Stites
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Reading the Sweet Oak

Author: Jan Stites

Narrator: Karen Peakes

Unabridged: 8 hr 9 min

Format: Digital Audiobook (DRM Protected)

Published: 09/29/2015

Synopsis

Along the banks of the Sweet Oak River, deep in the heart of the Ozarks, a book club takes five women on stunning journeys of self-discovery.After losing first her husband, then her daughter, seventy-eight-year-old grandmother Ruby wants to teach her risk-averse granddaughter, Tulsa, that some leaps are worth taking, no matter how high the potential fall. Tulsa loves her grandmother dearly, but she has a business to run and no time for romance—not even the paperback version. But when Ruby ropes her into a book club, Tulsa can’t bring herself to disappoint the woman who raised her.Together with Ruby’s best friend, Pearl, as well as family friends BJ and Jen, the women embark on an exploration of modern-day love guided by written tales of romance. What they discover is a beautiful story that examines the bonds of friendship and the highs and lows of love in all its forms.

About Jan Stites

Jan Stites is the author of the novels Edgewise and Reading the Sweet Oak. She received a bachelor’s degree from the University of Missouri and a master’s degree from Purdue University, both in history and English. She has held a multitude of jobs, including screenwriter, screenwriting instructor at San Francisco State University and the University of California–Berkeley, waitress, secretary, middle school teacher, scuba diving travel writer, journalist, transcriber for doctors and documentary filmmakers, teacher in Kenya and the Yucatán, and translator for American doctors in Mexico. She is from Missouri, where she has vacationed extensively in the Ozarks. She currently resides in Northern California with her husband.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Bianca (Away) on May 11, 2016

The novel begins with beautiful descriptions of the Sweet Oak River in the Ozarks region, somewhere in Kansas. Ruby, a seventy-eight-year-old and her granddaughter, Tulsa (grr, the name), twenty-seven, live by the river and run a business renting out canoes and a few chalets. Their business is strug......more

Goodreads review by Kimberly on September 08, 2015

Beautifully written with the most endearing characters I've encountered in quite some time. Set against the enchanting backdrop of the Ozarks, Reading The Sweet Oak is a novel of family, friendship, love, and the ability to forgive not only others but one's self, as well as a journey of self-discove......more

Goodreads review by Lolly K Dandeneau on July 01, 2015

"Dirt is just Ozarks rouge." Even though Ruby's granddaughter Tulsa isn't looking for love, it may just find her. But the novel isn't the usual sappy formula, these women use their romance book club to understand themselves and the atmosphere along Sweet Oak River lends a beauty to the telling. Tuls......more

Goodreads review by Smitha on September 10, 2015

The banks of the Sweet Oak River, lies a canoe and cabin rental business run by the feisty Ruby and her reserved grand daughter Tulsa. While Ruby and Tulsa work their socks off trying to keep their business afloat, Ruby devises a book club, a romance book club for five women, Ruby, Tulsa, BJ, Jen an......more

Goodreads review by Claire on November 01, 2015

I won this book on Goodreads Giveaways. I did not like this book, I loved it!!! I never wanted it to end. I felt like the characters were my family and friends. Tulsa, Jan, BJ, Ruby and Pearl form a romance book club and it really teaches them about what true love and romance is. There is the love o......more

Quotes

“For any excuse and especially for anyone who enjoys stories about the Ozarks, Reading the Sweet Oak by Jan Stites would be a good choice.”—Mari Winn, The Joplin Independent

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