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3.55 AVERAGE
3.55 AVERAGE
I would give it 3.5 but we can't seem to give partials. Very funny in places. Took me a while to truly get hooked and actually forced myself to finish it in a last sitting. I will likely read the next one but this was not a page turner for me.
Entertaining and trashy and FUN, this book made me laugh out loud (literally, you guys, I LOL'd) plus it has recipes for foods like Chocolate Stuff. Or maybe that's in another one of her books, but still, food + book = happiness!
If you have never read a Sweet Potato Queens' book, you absolutely must. The tales and wisdom of the Sweet Potato Queens are absolutely hilarious!
First things first, you must know who the Sweet Potato Queens are. They are a group of women (mostly Southern) who rig up in green sequined dresses, red wigs, hot pink majorette boots, and crowns. They "enhance" their "assets" just a bit as part of the costume, and participate in parades and other big events throughout the South.
Connor Browne writes from her own point of view on being a Sweet Potato Queen, what it means, and what it gets you in this world. She dispenses advice on how to keep the "queenly look", produces the magic words you need to know in order to get men to do whatever you want, and even offers advice on what to eat when complete & utter tragedy strikes and even includes recipes.
With chapters titled "The Five Men You Must Have in Your Life at All Times" and "The Best Advice Ever Given in the Entire History of the World," I almost guarantee you will laugh yourself to pieces over the Sweet Potato Queens' antics and adventures.
I actually loved the Sweet Potato Queens so much that my sister, cousin, and I actually did our rendition of a Sweet Potato Queens float for a local parade a few years ago. We couldn't have been half-bad, we won first prize! :)
First things first, you must know who the Sweet Potato Queens are. They are a group of women (mostly Southern) who rig up in green sequined dresses, red wigs, hot pink majorette boots, and crowns. They "enhance" their "assets" just a bit as part of the costume, and participate in parades and other big events throughout the South.
Connor Browne writes from her own point of view on being a Sweet Potato Queen, what it means, and what it gets you in this world. She dispenses advice on how to keep the "queenly look", produces the magic words you need to know in order to get men to do whatever you want, and even offers advice on what to eat when complete & utter tragedy strikes and even includes recipes.
With chapters titled "The Five Men You Must Have in Your Life at All Times" and "The Best Advice Ever Given in the Entire History of the World," I almost guarantee you will laugh yourself to pieces over the Sweet Potato Queens' antics and adventures.
I actually loved the Sweet Potato Queens so much that my sister, cousin, and I actually did our rendition of a Sweet Potato Queens float for a local parade a few years ago. We couldn't have been half-bad, we won first prize! :)
Book 45 of the PopSugar Reading Challenge: A Book With a Fruit or Vegetable in the Title
To be honest, I feel like I lost some brain cells reading this book. I was expecting a mashup between Steel Magnolias and the Divine Secrets of the Ya Ya Sisterhood, and I got...well, I'm not even sure how to describe it. A book that has not aged very well, filled with sexism and littered with casual racism. I get that this book, which is based on a real-life group of women, is probably highly exaggerated. However, I think a lot of Browne's "advice" missed the mark. I will say that I found myself nodding along as she shared some of her views on spirituality and child rearing (even though I, a childless women, have absolutely no business having an opinion on child rearing- lol). But besides that I found nothing of substance in this book. If you're looking for stories about a strong group of southern women who have done and seen it all, I would recommend skipping this book and reading the books/watching the movies for the two sagas I mentioned at the beginning of this review.
To be honest, I feel like I lost some brain cells reading this book. I was expecting a mashup between Steel Magnolias and the Divine Secrets of the Ya Ya Sisterhood, and I got...well, I'm not even sure how to describe it. A book that has not aged very well, filled with sexism and littered with casual racism. I get that this book, which is based on a real-life group of women, is probably highly exaggerated. However, I think a lot of Browne's "advice" missed the mark. I will say that I found myself nodding along as she shared some of her views on spirituality and child rearing (even though I, a childless women, have absolutely no business having an opinion on child rearing- lol). But besides that I found nothing of substance in this book. If you're looking for stories about a strong group of southern women who have done and seen it all, I would recommend skipping this book and reading the books/watching the movies for the two sagas I mentioned at the beginning of this review.
See my review of:
The Sweet Potato Queens' Field Guide to Men: Every Man I Love Is Either Married, Gay, or Dead
The Sweet Potato Queens' Field Guide to Men: Every Man I Love Is Either Married, Gay, or Dead
I am a pretty smart gal, but I cannot tell if this book is meant to be a joke. Joke or not, this book and the people described in it are the reason young girls develop eating disorders and are afraid to show off how smart they are.
Funniest group of real life Southern ladies I'll ever be introduced to! They are a hoot!
As a woman who appreciates the fine art of combining self depreciation and delusions of grandeur, I couldn't say enough about this book. Go. Read it now. Give it to your mother, your sister, your daughter, and watch their faces scrunch up in confusion, then laughter, and relax better than any hoity toity shot of Botox could ever do. If your super BFF is a gay man, beware the loaning of this book: you may not get it back, and you better keep a close eye on your cadet boots, too. When Jill Conner Browne came to town, the streets were blocked with men in drag. Everybody wants in on the action, and the reason why? It's because every word she writes is so utterly ridiculous, laughable, and dammitall/blessherheart true.
