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Some Day You'll Thank Me for This: The Official Southern Ladies' Guide to Being a "Perfect" Mother
The bestselling authors of "Being Dead Is No Excuse" and "Somebody's Going to Die If Lilly Beth Doesn't Catch That Bouquet" deliver a hilarious treatise--complete with recipes--on the joys, trials, and tribulations of being the daughter of a Southern woman.
Hardcover, 256 pages
Published
March 24th 2009
by Hyperion
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Well, that was a quick read. I zipped through it in a couple hours this afternoon.
I'm from the Mississippi Delta (Clarksdale, to be exact, though I lived for a few years in Greenville, and my Southern girl street cred is further established by a degree from Ole Miss) and I expected this to be funny and a happy reminder of my upbringing. Instead, I read a tart and acerbic screed by two wholly unkind and unlikeable rhymes-with-witches. What a terribly unpleasant picture they've painted...more
I'm from the Mississippi Delta (Clarksdale, to be exact, though I lived for a few years in Greenville, and my Southern girl street cred is further established by a degree from Ole Miss) and I expected this to be funny and a happy reminder of my upbringing. Instead, I read a tart and acerbic screed by two wholly unkind and unlikeable rhymes-with-witches. What a terribly unpleasant picture they've painted...more
Like its predecessors, this book is a combination recipe book and humorous (snarky) commentary about some aspect of life in the South. The first book was about death and funerals. The second, weddings. This one covers the topic of Southern mothers. This one's title lacks a tiny bit of the zing of the first two (i.e. Being Dead is No Excuse and somebody is Going to Die if Lilly Beth Doesn't Catch That Bouquet, but it's still reasonably amusing. The recipes don't do much for me personally. ...more
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This book is somewhat amusing but so redundant and frustrating that I almost didn't finish. My major complaint is that it's so insular and non-representative of Southern womanhood. You'd never know it from this book, but Southern women do more than join the garden club and count Daddy's or hubby's money. Being a lady in any culture has little, if anything, to do with having money. The author says so herself near the end of the book, but the overall tone implies exactly the opposite.
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It's funny because it's true. While perhaps somewhat of a caricature of Mississippi women, particulary from the Delta, I recognized women from my childhood in almost every story and recipe in this book. Speaking of recipes, this book is worth the read for the recipes alone.
I could identify with many of the lists the Daughters of Southern Mothers (DSM) shared in this book. And, yes, I realize that I, too, am turning into my mother with the things I think about or say with respect to being a lady or a gentleman. Thank you, Mom!
I was a little disappointed, and to tell the truth, never finished. The humor wasn't enough for my taste, though I did laugh out loud a couple times. I thought there wasn't enough "meat" to balance the inclusion of typical southern recipes, which I suppose might be something new for those of us not raised here.
Call me crazy, but I enjoyed the sequel on the Southern funeral just a tad bit more. This book is also full of Southern recipes and information about mother/daughter relationships in the South. I don't believe the relationships between mothers and daughters is really any different in other places, but I guess it could be. The best thing about the book is that it made me dig out my deviled egg plate.
This was much more of a nostalgia trip for me than a how to book. Fun read.
I'd swear I had relatives that contributed to this book! Another great one!
Quick read, humorous, but not fantastic. I was going to give it to my mother but decided not to...not enough in there that she would appreciate. Very Delta-oriented.
Ha! What a hoot (and scarily quite true)!
fun. true too.
Too funny.
Hilarious.
I'm not from the south, but I thought this book was funny and very interesting. I have to admit, though, that a lot of the recipes featured did not sound all that appealing. Do people really eat stuff like this?
Not as funny as their other books. Same formula, different title. Still funny. Just not as funny the third time around.
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