Reviewed by Audria L.
July 13, 2005
"...I will definitely be reading this book again in the very near future and recommending it to all my girlfriends..."
Wow!! Big Hair and Flying Cows is as funny on the inside as the title is on the outside. The heroine, Bertie Byrd, lives in Georgia and works for her father driving a tow truck. Of course, towing broken down vehicles is not all she does. She picks up neighbors to take to the doctor and picks up groceries for neighbors that can't drive themselves. I guess you could say she's the taxi-driver/errand runner for the citizens of Sweet Meadow.
If I had to guess, I would think Bertie was born on Friday the 13th with everything that happens to her and around her. The book made me laugh so loud at times that I woke up my daughter more than once. She would holler at me to be quite, then she would want to know what was so funny! If my life was as interesting as Bertie's, I wouldn't be so tempted to read stories all the time.
I loved that Bertie didn't rely on a man to make her happy or to signify who she was, but I also loved it that she knew that with the right man she could be happier and more fulfilled. I haven't read a book this out-loud funny in quite a long time.
While the book started out a little on the slow side, once I got past all the pleasantries, I couldn't put the book down. At first I wasn't sure about the romantic part of the story. The author seemed to focus on the townspeople a lot, but then after getting to know the town 'so to speak' I understood the author's intent. Bertie always puts her friends' needs before her own. The romance was slow in sparking but when it did there were fireworks--literally--for Bertie anyway. (I'm not telling who the lucky man is because I think it would be a spoiler.)
I will definitely be reading this book again in the very near future and recommending it to all my girlfriends. I have to say the way the author wrote about the town makes you want to live there, even if there are wrinkled old men sitting at your kitchen table naked when you get up the next morning!
Big Hair and Flying Cows was hilarious! Don't miss this book.
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Book Description for Big Hair and Flying Cows
Bertie Byrd is unique. To say the least.
She calls Sweet Meadow, Georgia, home, where she works for her father doing auto repairs. She also drives the tow-truck, although Sweet Meadow's rather colorful denizens tend to treat Bertie more like the local, free taxi service. You know, someone has to get to a doctor's appointment or pick something up at the dry cleaners.
Bertie's favorite day of the week is Friday, when she leaves the wrecker with her father for the whole weekend and joins her friends at the Dew Drop Inn for a night of dancing. Her best friend, Mary Lou, sometimes fixes her up with dubious dates, although Bertie has to remind her friend not to tease her hair too high for those occasions. Like the time when they went to Carrie Sue's open house, and a ceramic cow with angel wings hanging from a ceiling fan locked its hooves into Bertie's big hair and refused to let go. She had to wear it all night, dangling chain and all.
Bertie's nearly perfect life is about to take a downhill turn, however. It starts when her landlord, Pete, currently a resident in a nearby nursing home, starts showing up at her house. In his birthday suit. A very badly wrinkled birthday suit. And then she goes to her mailbox, a rubber large mouth bass, and finds a notice from the zoning commission saying she can no longer park the wrecker in her driveway. The notice is signed by George Bigham. But when she goes to the courthouse to take care of her little problem, it is only to discover George Bigham is deceased. And Mary Lou's pregnancy test just came up positive. Can it get any worse?
In a word... yes.
