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    We're Just Like You, Only Prettier: Confessions of a Tarnished Southern Belle
    We're Just Like You, Only Prettier: Confessions of a Tarnished Southern Belle
    We're Just Like You, Only Prettier: Confessions of a Tarnished Southern Belle
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    We're Just Like You, Only Prettier: Confessions of a Tarnished Southern Belle

    By Celia Rivenbark

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    "On the short drive to the preschool,
    I dutifully unwrap a NutriGrain bar and
    toss it into the back seat to my four-year-old.
    Sometimes I'll even unwrap one for myself.
    Studies have shown that it's very important
    for familes to eat together. . . . "

    Why couldn't the Sopranos survive living down South? Simple. You can't shoot a guy full of holes after eating chicken and pastry, spoon bread, okra, and tomatoes.

    What does a Southern woman consider grounds for divorce? When Daddy takes the kids out in public dressed in pajama tops and Tweety Bird swim socks. Again.

    What is the Southern woman's opinion of a new "fat virus" theory? Bring it on! We've got a lot of skinny friends we need to sneeze on.

    Want to become honest-to-Jesus white trash? Spend two weeks' salary on hair extensions and pancake makeup for your three-year-old so she can win a five-dollar trophy in the Wee Tiny Miss pageant and the adoration of, well, nobody much.

    What does the Southern woman think of Paul McCartney's marriage to a model thirty years younger? We're not surprised. Statistically speaking, it's almost impossible for billionaires to discover that their soulmates are fifty-five and restocking the shampoo end caps at Kmart.

    In this wickedly funny follow-up to her bestselling Bless Your Heart, Tramp, Celia Rivenbark welcomes you, once again, to the south she loves, the land of "Mama and them's," "precious and dahlin," and mommies who mow. Ya'll come back now, you hear.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMacmillan Publishers
    Release dateApr 1, 2010
    ISBN9781429908252
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    Celia Rivenbark

    Celia Rivenbark is the author of the award-winning bestsellers Stop Dressing Your Six-Year-Old Like a Skank; Bless Your Heart, Tramp; Belle Weather; and You Can’t Drink All Day If You Don’t Start in the Morning. We’re Just Like You, Only Prettier won a Southern Independent Booksellers Alliance (SIBA) Book Award for nonfiction and was a finalist for the James Thurber Prize for American Humor. Born and raised in Duplin County, North Carolina, Rivenbark grew up in a small house “with a red barn out back that was populated by a couple of dozen lanky and unvaccinated cats.” She started out writing for her hometown paper. She writes a weekly, nationally syndicated humor column for the Myrtle Beach Sun News. She lives in Wilmington, North Carolina.

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    • 3/5
      If I could give this a 2.5 I would. While I found parts of it funny, it really wasn't as good as I had hoped. The title is very clever, but unfortunately I found that to be the best part of the book. I have not read many of her books before, and from what I hear this is not as good as the others. Maybe it's because I'm from the north. I didn't get it, and I didn't really want to. It was a quick read, but I woudln't pick this up for more than .99
    • 2/5
      If I could give this a 2.5 I would. While I found parts of it funny, it really wasn't as good as I had hoped. The title is very clever, but unfortunately I found that to be the best part of the book. I have not read many of her books before, and from what I hear this is not as good as the others. Maybe it's because I'm from the north. I didn't get it, and I didn't really want to. It was a quick read, but I woudln't pick this up for more than .99.
    • 2/5
      started off funny but got a bit boring and repetitive after a while
    • 4/5
      If you're a fan of either the Sweet Potato Queens OR Laurie Notaro, you'll love these books. Southern truth as humor at a pretty high level.
    • 2/5
      If I could give this a 2.5 I would. While I found parts of it funny, it really wasn't as good as I had hoped. The title is very clever, but unfortunately I found that to be the best part of the book. I have not read many of her books before, and from what I hear this is not as good as the others. Maybe it's because I'm from the north. I didn't get it, and I didn't really want to. It was a quick read, but I woudln't pick this up for more than .99.
    • 5/5
      Oh Celia, write faster! I love every book she puts out, but I think this was definitely my favorite. Take bitchy and roll it in a funny batter and fry it up with hushpuppies.
    • 4/5
      This is a book of compiled newspaper columns, a series of essays on lifein all it's miriad aspects, as seen from the point of view of aself-admitted tarnished Southern Belle. Rivenbark is best described asa poor white Erma Bombeck. While this book won't be everyone's cup oftea, I liked it. Granted, it probably shouldn't be read straightthrough because it tends to wear on you after a while, but I thinkthat's pretty true of any book of this genre, including compliationsfrom some of the best humor writers in America, like Andy Rooney andDave Barry.I got quite a few chuckles from this book, and saw myself in it morethan once.

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