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Summary: QUEENS FOREVER
Review: Sweet Potato Queens, Book of Love is WONDERFUL! I could not put the book down. Once I finished the book, I missed the clever queens, so I had to order the next version, God Save the Sweet Potato Queens. If you are looking for BIG laughs..this is it!
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Summary: cute, but childish
Review: 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.
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Summary: Is this a book? No, a matchbook!
Review: I read the other reviews and purchased this as a gift for my sister thinking it was a book she could enjoy. The book got here and is smaller than the palm of my hand, matchbook size If someone read it going home after work, as one of the reviews said, then he/she is a very, very slow reader.
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Summary: For all the queens out there!
Review: My mom read this book first and then lent it to me to read. When I finally got around to it, I regretted having not picked it up sooner. The book is a riot! As a Southern girl who loves to read about Southern women, I would recommend this book to any woman, anywhere who wants a laugh-out-loud book full of advice. For the queen in all of us, this book is a funny tribute to women everywhere.
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Summary: I wanna be a queen!
Review: My inner child has now been replaced with my inner Sweet Potato Queen! Long live the queens!
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Summary: A great laugh
Review: This book made me laugh out loud while riding the subway at rush hour. What more could you want? The perfect antidote to all those self-help books, and how-to-be-beautiful/rich/hip/successful or -whatever-else books. It's also good for combatting scary or tragic evening news, heavy news analysis pundits, and the little hassles and stresses of daily life. Celebrates being a woman, having friends and families, being outrageous and having fun.
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Summary: high-spirited hoot
Review: 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.
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Summary: I Want to be a Sweet Potato Queen!!!
Review: I read this book in two evenings and laughed the entire time.
If you are looking for a quick pick-me-up, grap this book. Despite the smarty-pants wit throughout, SPQBOL has some great messages for those of us who have fallen and have yet to get up.
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Summary: Buy this and laugh
Review: Wanna laugh your ... off? Buy this! Ms. Browne has created a wonderfully funny series with the Potato Queens'. Good for her for writing for the over 40 crowd. More please, Jill.
I also recommend 'Whacky Chicks' and 'No One's Even Bleeding' if ya wanna laugh some more.
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Summary: God Save the Sweet Potato Queens
Review: If you're not sure which Jill Connor Browne book to buy, I suggest skipping this one. I purchased all three and found The Sweet Potato Queen's Book of Love and The Sweet Potato Queens Big..Cookbook and Financial Planner basically covered the same material in book two (except for one hilarious chapter on how to please a man with one's mouth.) If you want a hilarious book about wacky women uniting for fun and loving men-bashing, buy Browne's first book. If you're over 40 and interested in the same issues, plus aging concerns and irritations, buy the third book for even more grins. All of the recipes from books one and two-- which are decadently sweet and super-caloric -- are repeated in this last book. These books are excellent gift-givers for young and old friends. Browne can provide anyone who needs a good laugh with much saucy southern irreverance and brutal, oh-my-god, honesty. You'll love her!
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