Bless Your Heart, Tramp: And Other Southern Endearments
Southerners sometimes try to convince us that they're just like northerners, but Celia Rivenbark knows better. After all, the Myrtle Beach Sun News humor columnist didn't write a book called We're Just Like You, Only Prettier to promote globalization. In her new titter-inducing tome, Celia...
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Southerners sometimes try to convince us that they're just like northerners, but Celia Rivenbark knows better. After all, the Myrtle Beach Sun News humor columnist didn't write a book called We're Just Like You, Only Prettier to promote globalization. In her new titter-inducing tome, Celia introduces culturally impoverished Yankees to the joys of "womanless wedding" fundraisers, fried turkey, and Budweiser couture. It's even more fun than church-social gossip.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780312343422 (0312343426)
ASIN: 312343426
Publish date: May 30th 2006
Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin
Pages no: 220
Edition language: English
Category:
Non Fiction,
Humor,
Autobiography,
Memoir,
Writing,
Essays,
Funny,
Comedy,
American,
Contemporary,
Biography Memoir,
Southern,
Womens Fiction,
Chick Lit
Collection of humor columns which I found more miss than hit but on the positive side none were longer than three pages. The first section about home life did not really appeal to me at all but I did enjoy the second section about life in "The South" and I now know the difference between "a mess" a...
I liked the shorts in Bless Your Heart, Tramp, but unfortunately, they were too short. In this, Rivenbark's writing felt choppy and disconnected, making her first book the least enjoyable for me, despite the ready humor. (I enjoyed two others by her much, much more.) Plainly, these essays started...
This is the second of Rivenbark's books that I have read (and I ran out to get it "hot on the heels" of finishing the first one). Think Dave Barry with a touch of snarky steel magnolia and you'll get her style perfectly. A great vacation read, and lots of fun.