The Sweet Potato Queens' Book of Love: A Fallen Southern Belle's Look at Love, Life, Men, Marriage, and Being Prepared

I've probably bought two dozen copies of this book to give to friends. Admittedly, it feels a bit dated these days, but it's still hilarious. The last couple of copies I've bought have gone to friends to read during their hospital stays. The chapters are short; good for picking up and reading when you have a minute, and did I mention they're hilarious? This book isn't for the prudish or for those sensitive to sexual innuendo, but it still cracks me up all these years and rereadings later. I quote "The five men" quite a bit. Highly recommended if you want a good laugh.

The Sweet Potato Queens have discovered the secret to happiness; life is what you make of it, and each of these fallen Southern Belles has decided to make life a riot, a romp, a long, involved, and perfectly executed practical joke, a reason for joy. Even while facing the variety of idiots and jerks and creeps (as well as indigenous critters) we come across in this world, the Sweet Potato Queens handle every dilemma with aplomb, humor, and sisterhood. They are also (thank God!) cheerfully addicted to bad food, good drinks, trashy lingerie, practical jokes, and watching beauty pageants with the supreme satisfaction of goddesses who know that the best crown is the one you give yourself, and it's yours for life. They are convinced of their own sovereignty, and what's more, they will convince you of yours.This book relates the history of the SPQs and then swings into a profoundly funny trove of advice and anecdotes. There are also recipes not to be found in any Junior League Cookbook and stories that you must not read while drinking a soda, lest cola come out of your nose from hysterical laughter. When reading this book for the first time, read it with a good friend close by; this is a book so funny is BEGS to be shared, and shared immediately, with someone who will laugh with you.As long as your girlfriends (or, in certain cases, your boyfriends) have a sense of humor, you will always have the perfect gift for them in this book. I myself keep having to buy new copies because I keep giving them away.When I reach for this book, as I have time and again, both in blue times and in silly ones, I know for sure I'm going to come away all perked up, grinning and blushing. Life is wonderful, and we can make it up to be so; the SPQs show you how to follow their example with the sassy and wise enthusiasm that is the trademark of a group of women who have declared themselves bona fide goddesses and are having a complete blast with the world at large.Mix you up some Fat Mama's Knock You Naked Margaritas (the SPQs tell you how to make them) put on some trashy lingerie (they tell you the best place to get it) and invite your girlfriends over and read this book aloud to each other. Put this book on your list of things you must read this year, and put it on your Christmas List for all your gal pals as well.

She writes as if she were just talking to you over a drink. By the middle of each book, she's become your best girlfriend. She apparently has a really hilarious life with a lot of women (&men) as crazy as she is. She relates stories from her friends' lives or the papers, like the woman who beat her husband to death with a shoe - years after I first read it, I still laugh. (There's not a woman in the world who can't resonate with that.,) I keep all the books by my bed. At 3 am when I can't sleep, when the news reports have overwhelmed my whirring brain, I open one of the books - any book at any point - & start reading. Soon I am laughing out loud & everything is OK again. Buy all the books, they're very empowering for women. They take their "Queen" status very seriously & will be glad to teach you how to be one too. (And they'll save you a bundle in sleeping pills & shrink's fees.)

Although I myself am a southern belle, born and raised in Atlanta, Ga. I had never heard about the elusive Sweet Potato Queens until I happened upon this book. What a find it was! I can't remember the last time I giggled/laughed out loud so much at a book.The life, love, and food advice given by the leader of the Mississippi Sweet Potato Queens in this tell all book are hilarious if not dead on. I kept imagining the queens walking around in trashy lingerie and cooking up a storm, all the while being intelligent, happy, and well, Queenly.You get the sense that the author truly knows how to live life to the fullest & she's trying to pass that on through her excellent writing skills. This tome will make you want to liven up your life; or at least whip up one of the heavenly recipes provided.The Sweet Potato Queens Book of Love is truly a joy to read. Pick one up today; you won't be sorry :)

I think it helps one's appreciation of this book to either be from the South or familiar with Southern culture. I happen to be from the North but visit my parents who now live in Alabama, and I have visited other parts of the South either to attend conferences or for vacation. Certain aspects of this book are so very funny that I could hardly believe someone could be so funny. I would laugh out loud and then phone someone, eager to share the ribald humor. It is as if the author got into my brain and wrote about certain topics, intimate topics! We read this for book club, and it certainly brought about interesting discussion from a group of gals who normally are not into sharing so openly.Though the humor is edgy, it is at no one's expense.Very, very funny!!!

This book is a true education in itself! I had no idea of some of the womanly ways of these fantastic Sweet Potato Queens! I finished the book with a part of me secretly wanting to be one myself LOL! Very entertaining but with a lot of wisdom woven in. I think every woman should read this (but not every man as they'll learn the secrets!) It is a lot of fun and quite outrageous at times! I found myself saying "You'd not get away with saying that these days!" quite a lot so I think I'm showing my age, but it was very refreshing to read something so frank. Did I say it was funny? I really, really laughed. Definitely worth a read!

The book is in very good state, and not expensive although the last page has pencil on it. Thanks !

Worse book I ever read, don't waste your money, I was looking for a yaya sisterhood feel, failed completely, more a mean girl feel

Book in Excellent Condition and the writing is Fabulous!!!!