God Save the Sweet Potato Queens by Jill Conner Browne
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Book Reviews of God Save the Sweet Potato Queens
Book Review: another must-have from Jill Conner Browne
Summary: 5 Stars
This book is a hoot and a holler and will be the source of much hilarity! Just don't expect your husbands to "get' the references and the jokes---this one, like all of Browne's writings, is a gift for the ladies. And what a gift it is, guaranteed to bring out a belly laugh in even the most restrained of your friends.When life seems to be just another pile of dirty dishes, leave them in the sink and go pick up "God Bless the Sweet Potato Queens"! Oh, and remember to ditch that slogan "less is more". That may be true when we are 20-somethings, but as we get older, "more is more, and also better!" (That slogan also refers to those outrageous SPQ recipes Browne provides, which will help us get through most anything.)
On the scale from weighty and serious to frothy and insouciant, Browne is off the chart on the right hand side! Highly recommended---five stars are too few for this one!
Book Review: Sweet Potatoes Give Me Gas
Summary: 5 Stars
And a Gas is what this wonderful book is. A must read for anyone who loved the SPQ Book of Love (which should definitely be read first). Jill Conner Browne returns with more celebration of life and love, complete with instructions and recipes. Irreverent, naughty and nice too, the down home common sense approach of the SPQs is something to celebrate. You just feel like a kindly friend is talkin' (sense) to you, and you don't want it to end - well, maybe a break for some Death Chicken and Gooey Bars and Bacon Monkey Bread. When we can't celebrate the purely good and simpler aspects of life, the SPQs show us how to approach those parts with a sense of humor and no humility. Prissing, hormones, dating tips and revirgination are just a few of the topics. The recipes and the advice make this a book to own, to go back to for later study. Pair it with the earlier volume, and it makes the PERFECT birthday gift.Book Review: She brings us back to the sweetness
Summary: 5 Stars
Jill Conner Browne just keeps getting better. God Save the SPQ's is in every respect better than her fabulous debut, The SPQ's Book of Love. Jill has a point of view, a brilliant sense of humor, and a voice I'd kill for. Or at least hurt badly for. Sure, she's funny as hell, but what makes this second book even better than the first is Jill's willingness to expose herself...so to speak. She shows us that the humor frequently comes from not-so-funny places. I think it was Phyllis Diller who said, "Comedy is tragedy revisited." With Jill as your tour guide, you'll laugh as you learn. And after all the funny, funny, funny, she heeds the advice of the late, great Willie Morris, and brings you back to the sweetness. And it makes you cry and feel like you've connected with someone. All books should do so well.Book Review: I am a self-appointed Sweet Potato Queen
Summary: 5 Stars
I have never laughed so much from a book. This is as much fun as seeeing a good comedian "live", and it is cheaper, easier and you can sip on your own Knock "Em Dead Margaritas," while reading. If you can multi-task, you can even fulfill the promise, and read the book simultaneously. This book, filled with advice on how to live a less stressful, more joyful life is hilarious. Hidden in all the humor and exageration are two pages of actual clear cut advice stating that "The truth is real life doesn't always turn out to be exactly what we planned or dreamed..." Browne briefly states what to do about that. If you are a southern "girl" who enjoys humor, read this book. If you can't find the humor, you need the book even more.Book Review: Not for those with weak bladders!
Summary: 5 Stars
The Tammys, those Mississippi belles gone bad, are back with another hysterically funny cross-section of their bigger than life lives. Just a sampling of the chapter titles should be sufficient to give you a good feel for the irreverent joy in store when you read this: My Hors Are Moning; A Pot to Priss In; What to do When the Rabbit Dies; Divorce, Dating Again, and Revirgination; Civil Rights, Body Hair, and Other Delicate Matters; and, of course, More Death-Defying Recipes. Let me just tell y'all, if you work somewhere sedate and dignified, don't try to read this there because I guarantee you're going to be hooting out loud and you might even wet your pants a little. God save the Sweet Potato Queens, God love 'em and, God willing, there will be a SPQ3 soon.