Romance
by Donna Coker

      Are you ready for a romance? In the book, Dollar Daze: the Bottom Dollar Girls in Love, by Karen Gillespie, love abounds in small town Cayboo Creek, South Carolina.
     The girls at the Bottom Dollar Emporium are following their hearts and finding out about love for the senior set. Leading the pack is Attalee Gaines, who is on the down side of eighty and younger boyfriend, Dooley Prichard. They are giving the older set something to talk about, and gossip runs wild.
     Meanwhile, Birdie Murdock and Mavis Loomis, both widows, are competing for the affections of high school heartthrob, Brewster Clark. This causes Mavis and Birdie, who have been friends for years, to have a falling out. Each thinks that Brewster is two-timing them with the other one. They are using everything that can to get Brewster, including new clothes and fancy dinners. Will wedding bells ring?
     Trying to mediate between the friends, Gracie Tobias is also trying to help her granddaughter, Elizabeth Hollingsworth, who worked at the Bottom Dollar Emporium until she got pregnant. Elizabeth is trying to tell her husband that she wants to go back to work, but he doesn’t want to put their daughter in daycare. After trying to help everyone else, Grace has decided she is done with romance, until she meets Rusty Williams, a motorcycle riding doctor. Following these women through their love lives will keep you laughing. The small town of Cayboo Creek will never be the same as the Bottom Dollar Girls fall in love.
     Karin Gillespie also has other Bottom Dollar Girls books available at the Rapides Parish Library.  They include Bet Your Bottom Dollar and A Dollar Short. Ms. Gillespie writes about senior citizens with a funny, witty style as she takes you through all the trials and tribulations older women face as they play the dating game. If you haven’t been to the library in a while, come by and check out these books, and enjoy the antics of the Bottom Dollar Girls.
     The Rapides Parish Library has books for all ages as well as other forms of entertainment, such as movies on VHS or DVD. There are all types of magazines and newspapers available. The library has computers, so you can surf the Internet if you like. Make time to visit the library and you won’t be disappointed.
     Ms. Coker works at the Glenmora Branch Library.

September 23, 2007