The Sweet Potato Queens' Book of Love: A Fallen Southern Belle's Look at Love, Life, Men, Marriage, and Being Prepared (edition 1999)

by Jill Conner Browne (Author)

Series: The Sweet Potato Queens (1)

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Family & Relationships. Nonfiction. Humor (Nonfiction.) HTML:To know the Sweet Potato Queens is to love them, and if you haven't heard about them yet, you will. Since the early 1980s, this group of belles gone bad has been the toast of Jackson, Mississippi, with their glorious annual appearance in the St. Patrick's Day parade. In The Sweet Potato Queens' Book of Love, their royal ringleader, Jill Conner Browne, introduces the Queens to the world with this sly, hilarious manifesto about love, life, men, and the importance of being prepared. Chapters include: �?� The True Magic Words Guaranteed to Get Any Man to Do Your Bidding �?� The Five Men You Must Have in Your Life at All Times �?� Men Who May Need Killing, Quite Frankly �?� What to Eat When Tragedy Strikes, or Just for Entertainment �?� The Best Advice Ever Given in the Entire History of the World From tales of the infamous Sweet Potato Queens' Promise to the joys of Chocolate Stuff and Fat Mama's Knock You Naked Margaritas, this irreverent, shamelessly funny book is the gen-… (more)

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Title:	The Sweet Potato Queens' Book of Love: A Fallen Southern Belle's Look at Love, Life, Men, Marriage, and Being Prepared
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Info:	Three Rivers Press (1999), Edition: 1, 213 pages
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Not too many books can make me laugh like this one did. I really enjoyed it. Would've given it a "10" rating if it hadn't been for the last part of the book just not being quite as funny as the rest. (

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MarkLacy | May 29, 2022 |

I wasn’t quite sure what to think of this book when I first saw it. Who are the Sweet Potato Queens? And why are they dressed so strangely? And if this book is so popular in the South, then as a non-Southerner, will I even get most of it? What I found was that The Sweet Potato Queens’ Book of Love is a slyly clever, wittily wise, and wholly hilarious handbook for the modern woman’s life. It’s up to the reader how seriously she takes each bit of insight, but I was delighted to discover an echo to some of my own frustrations and revelations. And the recipes? I can’t wait to try Chocolate Stuff and the Mambo Margaritas! (

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slimikin | Mar 27, 2022 |

rabck from dvg; tongue in cheek, southern belle's book of tips and tricks for love and marriage (

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nancynova | Mar 17, 2018 |

Well, I've certainly read better by her.....and some of the stories in here are repeats from other books......

I'd give it a 2.5, but then only 2 stars would show.....and I didn't not like it, but I didn't like it...it was just ok. None of that laugh-out-loud-falling-off-my chair humor. (

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Auntie-Nanuuq | Jan 18, 2016 |

Loved it!! A former Kielbassi Queen of S.W. PA (

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Tran, David	Cover designer	secondary author	some editions	confirmed

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To
my daughter Bailey,
who is my very heart,
and
to the sweet memory of
Beth Griffin Jones
who believed I could write a
very funny book.

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For anyone even remotely familiar with Jackson, Mississippi, the name “Sweet Potato Queens” instantly evokes sweet memories of beautiful, somewhat augmented female forms enveloped in green sequins, towering red hairdos, provocative dances, and the haunting refrain of “Tiny Bubbles” as only Don Ho could - or would, for that matter - deliver it.

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Family & Relationships. Nonfiction. Humor (Nonfiction.) HTML:To know the Sweet Potato Queens is to love them, and if you haven't heard about them yet, you will. Since the early 1980s, this group of belles gone bad has been the toast of Jackson, Mississippi, with their glorious annual appearance in the St. Patrick's Day parade. In The Sweet Potato Queens' Book of Love, their royal ringleader, Jill Conner Browne, introduces the Queens to the world with this sly, hilarious manifesto about love, life, men, and the importance of being prepared. Chapters include:
�?� The True Magic Words Guaranteed to Get Any Man to Do Your Bidding
�?� The Five Men You Must Have in Your Life at All Times
�?� Men Who May Need Killing, Quite Frankly
�?� What to Eat When Tragedy Strikes, or Just for Entertainment
�?� The Best Advice Ever Given in the Entire History of the World
From tales of the infamous Sweet Potato Queens' Promise to the joys of Chocolate Stuff and Fat Mama's Knock You Naked Margaritas, this irreverent, shamelessly funny book is the gen-

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