The Sweet Potato Queens' Book of Love
by Jill Conner Browne
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Book Reviews of The Sweet Potato Queens' Book of Love
Book Review: Put this one in your shopping cart now and don't waste time!
Summary: 5 Stars
I am still drying my tears of laughter from reading this book in about 24 hours. ( sleep time figured in too!) I couldn't put the blessed thing down. Jill Conner Browne has a sense of humor that I thought was so refreshing I went right out and bought the ingredients to "Chocolate Stuff" and "Fat Mama's Knock You Naked Margaritas." If you are looking for a saucy, point blank, down and dirty, honest look at "the way it really is", (love, that is, and a lot of other bits of life wisdom), you have to buy this book now! You won't ever waste your time again with another self-help book or a book of "rules" again, you won't need them. Jill nails the bottom line with her attitude and opinions and you'll sware she just said exactly what has run through your mind many times. My hat's off to you Jill, and I can't wait to start a Sweet Potato Queen Club!!! Amen!Book Review: Order extra---all your friends will want yours.
Summary: 5 Stars
When I first picked up this book I was killing time one Friday evening (feeling a little sorry for myself for not having a hot date). Within a few pages I was laughing out loud so hard that people were staring. I knew I would buy it regardless of price. All evening I laughed until I almost lost my breath. Three quarters of the way through I started e-mailing everyone I knew to RUN and find the book.
For any Southern woman (or sympathetic poor soul from somewhere else) it is a must. Am ordering a copy for my soon to be 71 year old Mother and extras for my favorite friends. I think Mother will get most of it, and the parts she's fuzzy on we will explain. A couple of Knock You Naked Margaritas ought to take care of it.
An absolutely perfect way to feel better within minutes of starting it. Jill Connor Browne may say the things that I have always thought better than anyone alive.
Book Review: Not the target audience...
Summary: 1 Stars
I bought this book because of the rave reviews, but I am obviously not the author's target audience. I didn't get most of the humor and didn't find what I did get to be funny. There were a lot of what I would call "southern living" references that I just didn't understand and entirely too much dialogue about why the Queens are so great. I got about a third of the way through this book before I couldn't take any more and it is very rare for me not to finish a book.
I wanted to throw this review out there to try to balance the raves for those of us who just don't get it. I would say that if you're a young (under 40), happily married, northern/city career woman, you might not fall into the target audience. If, even so, you really have to read this, I suggest checking it out from a library or borrowing it from a friend so that you're not sorry for spending the money on it later as I am.
Book Review: high-spirited hoot
Summary: 5 Stars
Jill Conner Browne and the Sweet Potato Queens will pull you out of whatever doldrums you may fall prey to, and lift your spirits with this hoot-on-every-page "book of love". You'll recognize yourselves and your friends, warts, foibles and all, in Jill's tales of the SWQs. As for the men in your life, well, check out the chapter about the essential five men every woman must have in her life. If you're one of the very few lucky ones who manages to find all five in just one guy, count your blessings and hold on to him for dear life!Jill's mama's recipe for "Chocolate Stuff" is a sure-fire cure for everything from extreme lovelornness to extreme summertime boredom.
Give yourself a break from the "life is real, life is earnest" mindset and don your wig and sequinned outfit, honey. Life is frothy and life is fun, too! Highly recommended.
Book Review: cute, but childish
Summary: 2 Stars
The Sweet Potato Queens, for anyone who hasn't yet heard of them, are a group of fading Southern belles who've annointed themselves Queens of their small circle of admirers. In this book, their leader espouses the Queens' views on (primarily) Queendom, gender relations, and food."The Sweet Potato Queens' Book of Love" is entertaining and a quick read. However, its attitude of postfeminist dominance is grating: the Queens espouse - seriously or not - the belief that they, as women, are the intellectual equal of any man, but are still entitled to the deference accorded to women by less enlightened schools of thought. Their demands for homage grow tiresome, even from the point of view of a feminist, and by the end of the book the author's message ("worship me! worship me!") has grown stale. This is strictly a Friday-night read, and not an excellent one at that.