Swag: Southern Women Aging Gracefully
by: Melinda Rainey Thompson
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SWAG started as a lark when Thompson began a monthly mailing of her humorous essays about ordinary events from a Southern woman's perspective. Over several years, her subscription list grew to nearly 5,000 people in 28 states. Covering topics that range from swimsuit shopping, to family reunions, to squirrel battles, to sick children, to cemetery etiquette, this volume will fit right alongside the Sweet Potato Queens and the Ya-Ya Sisterhood.
SWAG started as a lark when Thompson began a monthly mailing of her humorous essays about ordinary events from a Southern woman's perspective. Over several years, her subscription list grew to nearly 5,000 people in 28 states. Covering topics that range from swimsuit shopping, to family reunions, to squirrel battles, to sick children, to cemetery etiquette, this volume will fit right alongside the Sweet Potato Queens and the Ya-Ya Sisterhood.
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Rating: - Melinda knows her "GRITS"
I grew up with Melinda's maternal and paternal family, even though the author was a tadpole when last I saw her. As an author myself and a retired English teacher, I find Melinda's talent with her craftendearing, stimulating, hilarious, and very sensory. So many of her adventures were (and are) my own, even though we're a generation apart; she makes me see, hear, smell, and taste my own childhood in that small Alabama town.
Melinda reminds many of us that we're not only "GRITS" (Girls ... Read More
Rating: - SWAG
I purchased this book as a Christmas gift for my sister. I enjoyed the book when I read it. I am still waiting to hear if she enjoyed it as well.
Rating: - Great Book!
Everything about this book was great.So TRUE!If you are a woman in the South, you will really dig this book!
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- SWAG is Swell, wait, let me freshen my lipstick
Though I am from a different region of the South than the author, the truisms smack you in the face like the humidty on a hot Southern summer's day.She has captured the essence of all of us who were reared in the South.And it is true, that most of us over a "certain" age prefer red lipstick.After all, Revlon wouldn't lie to us, would they?
I vary between gales of laughter and nodding in agreement while reading and wish someone were here so I could read it aloud to them.
She has captured ... Read More
Rating: - LOL funny!
I have laughed and cried (from laughing) through this book!I feel like this is the story of my life sometimes.Great read...especially for 40-somethings and up!Or mothers of any age...I'll be reading more by this author.
- Melinda knows her "GRITS"I grew up with Melinda's maternal and paternal family, even though the author was a tadpole when last I saw her. As an author myself and a retired English teacher, I find Melinda's talent with her craftendearing, stimulating, hilarious, and very sensory. So many of her adventures were (and are) my own, even though we're a generation apart; she makes me see, hear, smell, and taste my own childhood in that small Alabama town.
Melinda reminds many of us that we're not only "GRITS" (Girls ... Read More
- SWAGI purchased this book as a Christmas gift for my sister. I enjoyed the book when I read it. I am still waiting to hear if she enjoyed it as well.
- Great Book!Everything about this book was great.So TRUE!If you are a woman in the South, you will really dig this book!
- SWAG is Swell, wait, let me freshen my lipstick Though I am from a different region of the South than the author, the truisms smack you in the face like the humidty on a hot Southern summer's day.She has captured the essence of all of us who were reared in the South.And it is true, that most of us over a "certain" age prefer red lipstick.After all, Revlon wouldn't lie to us, would they?
I vary between gales of laughter and nodding in agreement while reading and wish someone were here so I could read it aloud to them.
She has captured ... Read More
- LOL funny!I have laughed and cried (from laughing) through this book!I feel like this is the story of my life sometimes.Great read...especially for 40-somethings and up!Or mothers of any age...I'll be reading more by this author.
