Dollar Daze: The Bottom Dollar Girls in Love [Hardcover]

Karin Gillespie (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: August 1, 2006 | Series: Bottom Dollar Girls

Moons and Junes are the flavors of the month for the Bottom Dollar Girls, whose sudden fondness for wooing and cooing has them in a Dollar Daze. From the night of the Sweetheart Dance, love begins blooming all over Cayboo Creek. Attalee, soda jerk at the Bottom Dollar Emporium, and her beau Dooley seem headed for the altar via Thrill Hill. But Elizabeth is pining for her newlywed days when she felt more like a wife than a mother, while widowed Mavis has been up nights nursing a case of loneliness. Not so for newspaper woman Birdie. "I'm glad my dating days are done," she claims, and Gracie Tobias agrees that she, too, is "done with romance." They couldn't be more wrong.

--This text refers to the Paperback edition.

Editorial Reviews

From Publishers Weekly

Things are abuzz at the Bottom Dollar Emporium, Cayboo Creek, Ga., as the girls (returning from A Dollar Short for their third outing) find that love is in the air, despite their advanced years and protestations to the contrary. Attalee Gaines, Georgia's answer to Golden Girls' Estelle Getty, is sparking up a storm with her main squeeze Dooley Prichard. Mavis Loomis and Birdie Murdock have both said their man-hunting days are over, as has Mrs. Tobias (her first name Gracie is rarely used). Each lady finds someone to interest her, though: in what is hardly a surprise, Mavis and Birdie find the same man, who plays them off against each other and nearly spoils their lifelong friendship. In another nonshocker, Mrs. Tobias, for all her culture, discovers she now finds "suitable" gentlemen boring and falls for a blue-collar dream boat. Meanwhile, young mother Elizabeth loses her uncle Ray, but gains husband Timothy's understanding about combining work and motherhood. As the ladies find, again unsurprisingly, that it is never too late to discover more about yourself and that no one is more important than your friends, stereotypes and caricatures give way to affecting characterizations. Literary Guild and Doubleday alternates; 7-city author tour. (Aug.)
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From Booklist

*Starred Review* Love is in the air in Cayboo Creek, South Carolina, and not just for the young. Bride-to-be octogenarian Attalee Gaines, the flirty soda jerk at the Bottom Dollar Emporium, plays matchmaker for her sixtysomething widowed friends. Wealthy Gracie Tobias, an oh-so-prim-and-proper matron, finds herself paired up with sexy leather-wearing biker Rusty Williams. Mavis Loomis, the proprietor of the emporium, finds rekindled passion with Brewster Clark, a popular jock during their high-school years, even though Brewster is two-timing Mavis with her best friend, Birdie Murdock, publisher and reporter for the Cayboo Creek Crier. Attalee has set things in motion, but it's up to the fates to decide whether these ladies will be as happy as young Reeky Flynn and quirky taxidermist Jerry Sweeny. Each character is lovingly crafted in Gillespie's hilarious, heartwarming, and often irreverent look at senior living in small-town America. The third book in the Bottom Dollar Girls series (Bet Your Bottom Dollar, 2004; A Dollar Short: The Bottom Dollar Girls Go Hollywood, 2005) can also be enjoyed as a stand-alone. Shelley Mosley
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Product Details

• Hardcover: 352 pages
• Publisher: Simon & Schuster (August 1, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0743264290
• ISBN-13: 978-0743264297
• Product Dimensions: 8.5 x 5.6 x 1.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 14.4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,015,916 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Karin Gillespie is the author of the Bottom Dollar Girls series published by Simon and Schuster. A DOLLAR SHORT has just been released in paperback and DOLLAR DAZE will be published in August 2006.

Karin lives in Augusta, Georgia.

Customer Reviews

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Romance is in the air!, August 18, 2006

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Karen Potts (Lake Jackson, Texas) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Dollar Daze: The Bottom Dollar Girls in Love (Hardcover)

Many of the women of Cayboo Creek, South Carolina, have sworn off men, but that all changes when Attalee and Dooley begin planning their wedding. Brewster Clark returns to town, and suddenly the lifelong friendship between Birdie and Mavis is threatened when the two women begin to vie for Brew's attention. Even Mrs. Tobias gets into the act when she begins dating a kindly "Duct Dr." who cleans out heating and A/C ducts for a living. The one person who seems to be discontented is Elizabeth who loves her daughter Glenda but still misses having a job. This is a delightful addition to this wonderful, small-town, feel-good series. One of my favorite parts of these books are the sayings at the beginning of each chapter, such as "When I married Mr. Right I didn't know that his first name was Always." Although readers may have heard them before, they seem to fit into the spirit of the book, and they offer a laugh before each chapter.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars I am a huge fan!!, December 29, 2006

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Tonya Speelman "Hoarder of books" (Goldendale WA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Dollar Daze: The Bottom Dollar Girls in Love (Hardcover)

Elizabeth thinks she wants to go back to the corporate world, Attalee is getting married, Mrs. Tobias comes out of her shell, but is she comfortable being in different surroundings; Mavis and Birdie are both fawning over the same man, Brewster.

What happens in this book is a hoot. How they all get through life though is the secret. Each other! I love these books. No potty words, no sex scenes, and no violence. Just good friends, laughter and life! What more can you ask for.

This book leaves you guessing and you won't want to put it down!

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars lighthearted slice of life in small-town Georgia, August 2, 2006

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Harriet Klausner - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Dollar Daze: The Bottom Dollar Girls in Love (Hardcover)

In Cayboo Creek, Georgia the widows of the Bottom Dollar Emporium are excited and in denial as love seem to have come around for a second time. Octogenarian Attalee Gaines finds love with a younger man seventy-eight years old and Dooley Prichard; they emit enough heat to solve the gas crisis while the even younger Mavis Loomis and Birdie Murdock shake their heads in disgust as their mating days are long gone. Septuagenarian Mrs. Tobias agrees with the latter duo especially when watching Attalee and Dooley hold hands.

In spite of insisting no more men in their lives, long time best friends Mavis and Birdie each finds a hunk they like. The problem is simple their respective man is the same guy brewing trouble as he plays both for fools. Even high society Mrs. Tobias finds her peer group males tedious so looks at the working class for a real man.

The latest Bottom Dollar Emporium tale is as sweet as southern tea as the elderly women begin to find new men in their lives. The lighthearted story line will please fans of this series though this entry has no real surprises. Karin Gillespie provides a lighthearted slice of life in small-town Georgia that will remind the audience of Mossy Creek.

Harriet Klausner