Search - We're Just Like You, Only Prettier : Confessions of a Tarnished Southern Belle

Great funny read by a newpaper columnist that writes for the Sun Times in Myrtle Beach, SC. She tells it like it is. If her column is half as funny as this book, then the paper is a hit too!! I read this one first, but I've gotten her first book and it's near the top of my TBR Pile!! Actual laugh out loud moments explaining and justifying the Southern Redneck Way of Life. And, footnote on that, I'm Southern by choice - not by birth - and it's the best move I've ever made!!

This is so funny that I may have to keep it. Celia writes a column for the Myrtle Beach newpaper and you can read more of her stunny southern wit on their website. Being a bit of a bitchy southern girl myself, I laugh outloud everytime I pick something of hers up. Read it and then call your best friend and read her excerpts, you'll find yourself snorting outloud just trying to read it to someone else :)

Collection of humorous essays concerning life in the South. I caught myself laughing out loud several times while reading this book.

Funny, sweet, strong and slightly outrageous - like many Southern women that I have known!

I laughed so much while reading this book! I read it in one day, cause I just couldn't put it down.

" Little things that have no business bothering me drive me nuts. Like how, no matter how often I ask, my husband never shuts a cabinet or closet door. This means I must systematically go through the entire house slamming doors like Joan Crawford on crank and sobbing: "How (slam) inconsiderate (slam) can one (slam) person (slam) be?"
"I shouldn't wonder that he can't shut doors because he can't see things right in front of his own eyes. Why else would he ask me where his shoes are (in the closet) or the eyedrops (tee-hee in the oven) as though my ovaries are endowed with superhuman powers allowing me to see behind closed doors or drawers?"

A whole lot of fun. Sometimes I wonder if the south is a different universe.

"Tarnished" is the key word: don't read this if coarse language and off-color humor bug you.