Download PDF Southern Lady Code Essays Helen Ellis 9780385543897 Books
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"I loved it." —Ann Patchett
The bestselling author of American Housewife ("Dark, deadpan and truly inventive." --The New York Times Book Review) is back with a fiercely funny collection of essays on marriage and manners, thank-you notes and three-ways, ghosts, gunshots, gynecology, and the Calgon-scented, onion-dipped, monogrammed art of living as a Southern Lady.
Helen Ellis has a mantra "If you don't have something nice to say, say something not-so-nice in a nice way." Say "weathered" instead of "she looks like a cake left out in the rain." Say "early-developed" instead of "brace face and B cups." And for the love of Coke Salad, always say "Sorry you saw something that offended you" instead of "Get that stick out of your butt, Miss Prissy Pants." In these twenty-three raucous essays Ellis transforms herself into a dominatrix Donna Reed to save her marriage, inadvertently steals a $795 Burberry trench coat, witnesses a man fake his own death at a party, avoids a neck lift, and finds a black-tie gown that gives her the confidence of a drag queen. While she may have left her home in Alabama, married a New Yorker, forgotten how to drive, and abandoned the puffy headbands of her youth, Helen Ellis is clinging to her Southern accent like mayonnaise to white bread, and offering readers a hilarious, completely singular view on womanhood for both sides of the Mason-Dixon.
Download PDF Southern Lady Code Essays Helen Ellis 9780385543897 Books
"Humorous book of short essays on being a Southern lady in a modern world. Most southerners will pick up quickly on the codes used by southern girls in describing themselves, other women and some men. The essays are only a few pages long, which makes this an ideal beach or bathroom book. Like many books on how to be an Italian woman or Arab housewife, much of the humor will be lost on those who don't understand the south or southern ways. My wife from Minnesota, for example, understood and appreciated only about half of this book. My cousin from North Carolina, cackled out loud over several of the essays.
Not as wicked as Florence King (Southern Ladies and Gentlemen) and not as complete as Shellie Tomlinson's Suck your Stomach In, this is still a good read and an enjoyable book. Y'all will enjoy it, too!"
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Southern Lady Code Essays Helen Ellis 9780385543897 Books Reviews :
Southern Lady Code Essays Helen Ellis 9780385543897 Books Reviews
- This was absolutely terrible and not funny and not interesting. Yuck
- Humorous book of short essays on being a Southern lady in a modern world. Most southerners will pick up quickly on the codes used by southern girls in describing themselves, other women and some men. The essays are only a few pages long, which makes this an ideal beach or bathroom book. Like many books on how to be an Italian woman or Arab housewife, much of the humor will be lost on those who don't understand the south or southern ways. My wife from Minnesota, for example, understood and appreciated only about half of this book. My cousin from North Carolina, cackled out loud over several of the essays.
Not as wicked as Florence King (Southern Ladies and Gentlemen) and not as complete as Shellie Tomlinson's Suck your Stomach In, this is still a good read and an enjoyable book. Y'all will enjoy it, too! - A fun book of amusing essays, many of which I could relate to on multiple levels. Beneath the humor, there’s a sense of a warm, caring woman who knows who she is and what she wants. This is a woman who’d be fun to have as a friend. Easy read.
- Fab and fun. And I just want to know how she got inside this Southern lady's head? So much of what she said sounds like what came out of my mama's mouth my entire life. Y'all have got to read this book now. This is so you will understand what we are not saying when we are saying certain things.
- This book had me in stitches from page one. It’s a collection of short essays and the content rings true for anyone who has experienced this thing called life. The author is a modern day Erma Bombeck. I learned so many Southern Lady codes that I fear I’m becoming a Southerner - not a bad thing!
- I would read a shopping list if Helen Ellis wrote it. I loved this book.
- Felt as though the author was standing next to me as I grew up in New Orleans! She has the true sound of a Southern lady.
- Everything my momma taught me, explained in the funniest and most honest way possible! You won't be disappointed with this book.
