The Sweet Potato Queens' Book of Love

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Summary: What a treat this book is!!
Review: More fun than a box full of monkeys. I laughed and read it aloud and made forty other people laugh. What power Jill gave me for just a few minutes. Thank you thank you thank you.This book is nothing like the yaya book, by the way - no dark side - no incest - no child abuse. Just good slightly soiled fun!

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Summary: I laughed 'till I cried!
Review: I recently saw Jill Conner Browne in The Book Conference in Oxford, Miss. What a delight! I bought the book immediately! A friend read it and parts of it to her husband after I had gone to bed. She was laughing so hard, he kept asking what was so funny! I have a displaced sister, living in the North now-I'm sending her this book,and giving it to other friends. The scene with the mother and her 4yr. old son in the bank from the chapter "educating our young..." still has me laughing out loud! This is one , if not the most, funniest works I have ever read!

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Summary: "ya ya" copy cat tries too hard and misses
Review: What a dissappointment this book was! Did some editor just hand over the ya ya books and say:try to write like this" ? The humor is contrived and the story never takes off.

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Summary: Made me slap my sides and roll on the floor with laughter!
Review: As one who grew up in a small town in the Magnolia State (Mississippi), went to Ole Miss, then moved to the big city of Jackson (later escaping to other parts of the world) I've been exposed to more Tammys that you can shake a stick at. And I find every one of 'em smart, focused, bold and hysterically funny! Jill's book is no different from the Tammys themselves--smart, focused, bold and hysterically funny! Hope you enjoy it as much as I did.

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Summary: I laughed 'till I cried!
Review: Having lived in Jackson in the late 70's, I missed the advent of the Sweet Potato Queens. A friend recently gave me the book which I read on a plane to Florida. I laughed so hard at the antics of all the "Tammy's", that people on the plane thought I was nuts. I have to attend that parade next year in Jackson! I've bought this book for several friends to share the fun with them. It's nearly shut down a Fortune 500 company from all the laughter.

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Summary: Hysteria in a tiara
Review: As a fellow Southerner and self-proclaimed non-beauty queen (Miss Hog Wild in July), I found myself crying hysterically and wishing that my own tiara was not halfway across the world. As a former resident of Jackson, I can confirm that these sassy women are the belles of the ball, and more importantly believe that having a sense of humor goes well with having a little bit of Southern pride. Well done, and may your majorette boots one day be bronzed in the entry hall to Hal & Mal's. If read this book and you don't laugh 'til it hurts, you probably aren't capable of the emotions of a catfish!

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Summary: She loves men 'cause they taste just like chicken!
Review: Any organization (and I use that word loosely in relation to the Sweet Potato Queens)that consists of a bunch of women all of whom are named Tammy has got to be good. There is so much to learn from the SPQ's Book of Love. Where else will you find the etymology for the curious phrase "Jay at the Desk"? Who else could examine with such insight the theological mysteries of why Baptists don't wear shorts on Sunday? And all that business about panties and parties, Good God! I need more. Baby, just give it to me. I feel like I'm the only man she ever loved and henceforth I shall be more particular about everything. Especially about the kind of margaritas I make. Read this book and you will be prepared for just about anything that comes your way, unless of course it's a pack of Sweet Potato Queens.

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Summary: This book is perfect. If you want to laugh and laugh.
Review: I'm ready for a sequel to this book. I'm readyfor the movie. I'm ready for the TV series.

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Summary: This is a book that could put therapists out of business.
Review: Sweet Potato Queens Book of Love was the best self-help book I've ever read--and it's not your typical self-help book. If the philosophies of the author were imbraced fully, it would put the therapists right out of business. This is a book that woke me up and helped shake me out of my funk. "It's never too late to be what you might have been."

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Summary: High Hilarity from an Author who "gets it".
Review: The Sweet Potato Queens, led by the author Jill Connor Browne, have managed to distill all of life into a handy manual of hilarity. Although not light reading, The Sweet Potato Queens Book of Love is a must for anyone taking themselves too seriously and should be mandatory reading in colleges where fun is only being defined by the keg. Life lessons included in the price, the author seems to draw on incredibly deep resources, lending to her ability to "be partickler" about the content. The book points at you and admits that YOU are the one they are laughing AT, not with, and you are so relieved when their fickle finger points in another's direction that you can't help wanting to join in...but they won't LET you! Well worth the read, you will remember it fondly..I still am.