Stop Dressing Your Six-Year-Old Like a Skank: And Other Words of Delicate Southern Wisdom
by Celia Rivenbark
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Author: Celia RivenbarkEdition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Published)
Format: Bargain Price
Published: 2006-09-05
ISBN: N/A
Number of pages: 272
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
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Book Review: Funny, but a little overboard with the "southern" humor...
Summary: 3 Stars
I have to admit that I did enjoy reading this book, however, I found it to be slightly annoying with all of Rivenbark's "southern" dialect. I grew up in VA, the northern boarder of NC (where Rivenbark lives) and I have never heard most of the sayings in this book. The last few chapters I had to force myself through. They almost did not make sense. The first 3/4 of this book were humorous little anticdotes from every-day life. The last section of the book was like it came out of nowhere. A random conversation with the OnStar people about Christmas shopping, a rant about Chipotle sauce, etc. I found the constant "ya'lls", "hons", and purposeful incorrect grammar to be quite annoying.
Nevertheless, I am highly considering giving Rivenbark another try. The majority of this book was funny (not Laurie Notaro funny of course), but it felt so forced at the end. Perhaps I will have better luck with another one of her works.
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Summary of Stop Dressing Your Six-Year-Old Like a Skank: And Other Words of Delicate Southern Wisdom
Celia Rivenbark's essays about life in today's South are like caramel popcorn---sweet, salty, and utterly irresistible
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Celia Rivenbark is a master at summing up the South in all its glorious excesses and contradictions. In this collection of screamingly funny essays, you'll discover:
* How to get your kid into a character breakfast at Disneyworld (or run the risk of eating chicken out of a bucket with Sneezy)
* Secrets of Celebrity Moms (don't hate them because they're beautiful when there are so many other reasons to hate them)
* EBay addiction and why "It ain't worth having if it ain't on eBay" (Whoa! Is that Willie Nelson's face in your grits?)
* Why today's children's clothes make six-year-olds look like Vegas showgirls with an abundance of anger issues
* And so much more!
Rivenbark is an intrepid explorer and acid commentator on the land south of the Mason-Dixon line.
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Celia Rivenbark is a master at summing up the South in all its glorious excesses and contradictions. In this collection of screamingly funny essays, you'll discover:
* How to get your kid into a character breakfast at Disneyworld (or run the risk of eating chicken out of a bucket with Sneezy)
* Secrets of Celebrity Moms (don't hate them because they're beautiful when there are so many other reasons to hate them)
* EBay addiction and why "It ain't worth having if it ain't on eBay" (Whoa! Is that Willie Nelson's face in your grits?)
* Why today's children's clothes make six-year-olds look like Vegas showgirls with an abundance of anger issues
* And so much more!
Rivenbark is an intrepid explorer and acid commentator on the land south of the Mason-Dixon line.
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