We're Just Like You, Only Prettier: Confessions of a Tarnished Southern Belle by Celia Rivenbark Summary and Reviews
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Book Reviews of We're Just Like You, Only Prettier: Confessions of a Tarnished Southern Belle
Book Review: SOOOO been there and done that!
Summary: 5 Stars
After just scanning the table of contents, I knew I'd love this book about my life. The descriptions of being WT (white trash) are so dead on, I thought Celia had been talking to some of the people I know personally. I'm probably the only grandma in town who hasn't been to Chuck E., and the storyline just reinforced my "good" decision. My daughter has two daughters herself, so she will definitely see herself in the "breakfast of a granola bar on the way to the four-year-old's preschool" chapter. I tried to read this book while in the same room as hubby watching old wrasslin' matches on TV, but my LOL outbursts distracted him to the point of him snidely asking, "Whatchu reading that's so funny instead of watchin' TV with me?" This is a got-to-get book!Book Review: To Enjoy, must not take yourself too seriously!
Summary: 5 Stars
I can't imagine anyone not finding this funny, but alas, there are some out there, bless their hearts. Yes, some of the chapters aren't necessarily about the south so sue Celia - my God! You may have to take yourself a couple of rungs of the perfection ladder to laugh at this - but it IS funny! Book Review: Southern Belle
Summary: 2 Stars
Thought it would be funny. Just another put down for southern life and from one of our own. Sad. :(Book Review: Gobs o'giggles!
Summary: 4 Stars
This is worth reading if only for the chapter "Screw the Wisdom of Menopause." I laughed so loud when I read that one (at bedtime, in bed, with my folding fan sitting nearby ready for my next hot flash) that my dog became alarmed, flattened his ears, and needed to be hugged. I even read select passages to my husband, who wasn't amused -- no surprise there. But just one thing, ladies (because that's who's going to read this, dontcha' think?), this is not "southern literature" (per a previous review), and it's not even specifically southern. It's a collection of humor essays (except for one that is what I would call a "feel-good piece"), that offers wry observations about being a Mom, a wife, a woman of a certain age, *and* a Southerner. Rivenbark's language is occasionally rough, but then she spent years in a newsroom, so that's to be expected. The only reason she gets four stars instead of five from me is that she occasionally lets her writing get sloppy and her humor lapse into nastiness. Apart from those brief lapses, this was a lot of fun to read. Yes it was.Book Review: move along, nothing to see here
Summary: 1 Stars
I thought this was going to be a book about the south and how cute and funny we are. It's not. It's about the new south that has had the south beaten out of it and homogenized beyond recognition by someone who has been not raised by parents but by a big screen TV, magazines and what she has bought into that passes as women's lib. This unnecessarily potty mouthed woman has every tired joke, reference and scenario that you have heard before. The book is outdated and I hardly cracked a smile the whole way through after about the 2nd chapter. If you love being grossed out and think everything your play group does and your gal pals talk about especially their children then this book might be funny to you. If you are looking for sophisticated humor it won't be here. There is very little to relate to here if you actually are Southern, and don't just happen to live here.