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: How can you not love it?
Summary: 5 Stars
I have seen this book several times before I bought it at a small airport when I was desperate for reading material on the plane. I really wish I had read it sooner. I was raised by a woman that well deserves to be a Sweet Potato Queen and I saw so much of my mother in the things Browne spoke about. I kept thinking I had come to the funniest part of the book and as I would read on...I would find something better. It started with the 5 men every woman needs in her life. I thought, this is the best. Then I got the the possum (and yes according to brown I spelled possum right) story, and I thought, it can't get better than this. Then I got to the food. I know am waiting to get the Sweet Potato Queens' Big Cookbook...This is southern food at the best. I loved the book so much I recommended it for a book club. I have gotten so many emails thanking me for selecting it.Book Review: The Mother of All Hoots!
Summary: 5 Stars
I grew up in a small Virginia town and there is something inherently funny about a southern town. Maybe it's the heat that makes people want to just sit around and tell stories or maybe it's the fact there's not a whole lot of stuff going on. Reading this book is similar to hearing each one of your friends tell you his favorite funny story. The Most Prepared Woman The World Has Ever Known is my favorite part of the book and I remember hearing about this on the news a few years ago. It's the most entertaining book that I have ever read, but I don't know which is funnier, what the author says or how she says it. It doesn't matter where you're from or whether you are a male or female, this book is for anyone who wants to laugh. You will not put it down once you begin. I've heard people describe hilarious stories as a hoot. This is the Mother of All Hoots!Book Review: Jill, you're better than this
Summary: 1 Stars
Jill, if you read your own reviews and I hope you do: this is for you.
First, the world in general is right: you are hilarious You have a gift, sister. And I would have given you five stars just for that. But honestly Jill, you know darn well that when humor becomes degrading it is not really humor at all.
There are a lot of us out here who may be "young and hip", but we're not stupid. Your mother and her friends were right: private bedroom experiences (whether right or wrong) do not need to be publicly hashed over and laughed at.
Apparently this sort of thing used to be referred to as "trash". Now it's "what's for dinner"-everywhere...
You seem to have a whole lot more to offer. Skip the trash, keep the hilarity. God gave you your gift for a reason. Use it with intelligence and you can change the world-for good.
Book Review: I laughed myself out of bed. Really.
Summary: 5 Stars
I laughed, I cried, I gave it five avacados! Jill Conner Browne is so funny and honest that my husband asked me to quit reading this book in bed. (Every minute or two, he asked, "Okay, what's so funny now?!" And that was actually before I fell out of bed laughing.) Those of us who have always known that women are Queens, or at least Princesses, love this book because it's all true. The Queens' attitude is one of funloving, honest, live-it-up passion. The attitude of: Have fun wherever you are, make fun if there isn't any readily available, and lavish everyday life with laughter and hilarity. These are the stories of some friends who decided to do more with every day, think highly of themselves, express their most outrageous opinions, and be happy. They did it with the classy-tacky style any girl can appreciate, and of which any man should beware!Book Review: I ain't neva been a chicken plucker...
Summary: 5 Stars
I ain't neva been a chicken plucker thanks to my mama, St. Martin's and Hollins College. Just finished my mom's tattered copy with a charming note & autograph by JCB, and I can't stop grinning. Having grown up "Southern," I know these "modacious" women, and I called you one and all "Miss" Tammy. I know you all said to drop the "Miss" because like "ma'am," it didn't fit with y'all's self image, but dammit, you have to give a Queen the proper mode of address. Miss Tammy, thank you for telling it like it still is. This book was the Come Back Sauce I needed to ruminate on my own blessed childhood in a Humidified Oz. Read this and dream you are a Queen, or just refresh your memory of how you became a Queen. JCB, you get five beans in my review! Snow Queen to Sweet Potato Queen: Like Butter!