Lunch at the Piccadilly

From the book jacket: Welcome to the Rosehaven Convalescence Center in beautiful Listre, North Carolina. Here’s Mrs. Lil Olive out on the front porch, talking and rocking right along with the regulars. … But all talk and no action isn’t Lil’s strong suit. She’s restless. She wants some adventure. An......more

3.5 rounded up. Decades ago, we lived in Amarillo Texas, and there was a Piccadilly cafeteria there. Now, a cafeteria isn't an all-you-can-eat buffet. You pay for each item you take. It never failed, my daughter would ALWAYS take a jello right at the beginning (deserts are shown first) and then neve......more

I am not sure what it was about this book, but it left me feeling depressed. Some of it was lightly amusing, but perhaps having had to stay in a trauma rehab center for what felt like forever after a fall made it feel too immediate. I was probably one of the younger ones there, and I had been walkin......more