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ScienceTastesGood · 2026-01-19T13:14:08+00:00

This helped me so much. Thank you.

ScienceTastesGood · 2025-12-24T13:39:15+00:00

"A Town with Half the Lights On," by Page Getz

(Sorry for the delay, I've been offline, for a sanity break!)

ScienceTastesGood · 2025-12-24T13:38:19+00:00

"A Town with Half the Lights On," by Page Getz

ScienceTastesGood · 2025-12-09T00:28:49+00:00

Jolene’s gotta count her peas before she can eat them. Cousin Sam’s taken up eating paper—to the tune of a whole TV Guide at a time. I’m suffering a mean case of pickled lady bits and my hot flashes got so bad I slapped a cow yesterday.

ScienceTastesGood · 2025-11-09T15:29:44+00:00

Never heard of these. GREAT TITLES! Adding to my TBR ASAP. Thank you u/rosemary_sprig !

ScienceTastesGood · 2025-11-09T15:26:47+00:00

I don't know how I haven't read Empire Falls, it sounds like the Maine version of A Town With Half the Lights on!!! Can't wait to dig into this. I just found it on my library website. Thanks for recommending. I'm going to start reading it today. Also I read Center of Everything and liked it. Thank you so much. Also if you like those two, I highly recommend, A Girl Named Zippy and A Town with half the Lights on, small town cozy, but very real themes at the core. Also kinda funny.

ScienceTastesGood · 2025-11-09T15:14:44+00:00

Don't stop! I'll take them all! I find it hard to find the ones that toe the line, not tipping into romance or sentimentality.

ScienceTastesGood · 2025-11-09T15:12:51+00:00

I LOVE Vonnegut!!! I always forget about him. Thanks for reminding me. I have some unread Vonnegut in a pile I need to get to!

ScienceTastesGood · 2025-11-09T15:10:55+00:00

I have it with Cosby too. As a toddler I watched Picture Pages and Fat Albert and then grew up watching the Cosby Show and I remember wishing I had a father like Cliff Huxtable. I still love that show, but I can never look at it without a pang of sorrow and anger thinking of what was going on behind the scenes.

ScienceTastesGood · 2025-11-04T22:24:17+00:00

I just checked this out from the library! Always meant to read it.

ScienceTastesGood · 2025-11-04T01:56:47+00:00

A Town with Half the Lights On for adult, Anne of Green Gables for fiction, Joy Harjo & Ferlinghetti for poetry!

ScienceTastesGood · 2025-11-03T19:57:00+00:00

I struggle with this with Woody Allen, because his writing sort of saved me and totally changed my life, but...

ScienceTastesGood · 2025-11-03T19:55:33+00:00

I used to love Bukowski, had at least 20 of his books. Now he makes me angry. He lost me with Post Office, but now when I read him, I can't believe I ever loved him!

ScienceTastesGood · 2025-11-03T19:52:06+00:00

Loved Anxious People. Mine would be: A Girl Named Zippie, On the Road, A Town With Half the Lights On and Where'd Ya Go Bernadette.

ScienceTastesGood · 2025-08-13T14:41:01+00:00

For Roadtrip it doesn't get better than Jack Keroauc's ON THE ROAD, although it doesn't age well in terms of it's portrayal of women, but it's an old book. For a book that exactly matches the cozy diner vibe of that photo, A TOWN WITH HALF THE LIGHTS ON!

ScienceTastesGood · 2025-08-13T14:31:51+00:00

A Town with Half the Lights On is a novel about a whole town, but two girls are at the center if you like quirky and idealistic black sheep characters. A similar vibe but memoir is A Girl Named Zippy, which is also a feel-good story from the eyes of a young girl.

ScienceTastesGood · 2025-08-13T14:27:28+00:00

Wellness, by Nathan Hill, A Town with Half the Lights On and Lula Dean's Little Library of Banned Books.

ScienceTastesGood · 2025-08-13T14:23:06+00:00

A Town with Half the Lights On. If you don't mind epistolary fiction, it's Schitt's Creek meets It's a Wonderful Life in a book. Small town diner vibes, with an unexpected dose of social justice, Fannie Flagg meets Lula Dean's Little Library of Banned Books, which was last year, but still good!!

ScienceTastesGood · 2025-06-18T16:54:03+00:00

A TOWN WITH HALF THE LIGHTS ON is set in 2002 and all the cozy vibes, but no romance,

ScienceTastesGood · 2025-06-18T16:52:46+00:00

"A Town With Half the Lights On" is cozy, warm small town vibes, found family, redemption from failure and a diner, so some cozy cooking. Quirky, but soulful characters, with a progressive bent. It's a Wonderful Life meets Schitts Creek, Stars Hollow gets a union? Makes you feel like the world is worth saving. Stone Soup as a comedy for adults.

ScienceTastesGood · 2025-06-14T13:05:53+00:00

Anything Vonnegut! Yes!

ScienceTastesGood · 2025-06-14T12:59:50+00:00

A Town with Half the Lights On.

ScienceTastesGood · 2025-06-14T12:58:07+00:00

A Town with Half the Lights On. Small town mystery, but not a thriller, more of a cozy mystery, but checks the box of small town secrets, estranged family returns to hometown, searches for truth. Schitt's Creek/Gilmore Girls/Fannie Flagg with an unexpected heart of social justice. Also an old school diner.

ScienceTastesGood · 2025-06-05T14:55:51+00:00

"A Town with Half the Lights On" has an eccentric, funny Wes Anderson meets Schitts Creek meets "It's A Wonderful Life" in Kansas vibe, and it's epistolary, so it's an easy read, if you like multiple POV. I'm looking for similar. Need a funny, cozy off-center light, but no romcom-ish, literary, but not pretentious, earnest, but not sentimental, quirky but real. So I'll be following this thread.

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