Immerse In American Thighs: The Sweet Potato Queens' Guide To Preserving Your Assets Compiled By Jill Conner Browne Presented In EPub

was one funny story, but it was mostly pretty rambling, I quit after forcing myself to read a couple of chapters, I've been happy with a couple of other books by her, but won't read any more, LOL Got throughpp and quit,

JCB is now an INDUSTRY, She's very funny, but seems to think sprinkling each page liberally w/ words in ALL CAPS for emphasis just in case you MISS the POINT is a good thing.
NOT. Okay, you have to listen to Jill Conner Browne read this book, Her other books are also fun and hilarious, but I hadn't listened to any of them before, To hear it in her actual voice, that Southern drawl, is priceless,
I'm in my's and both my mother's and I were in absolute stitches, Not the best thing to have happen while you're driving,
Ms. Browne brings her inimitable humor once again to the SPQ series and adds yet another wonderful book to the cannon, Short stories interspersed with "advice" come on, a lot of it is tongueincheek that will make you want to pyp, read/listen to the book, you'lll get it,

There is some language in here so it's not for the faint of heart, I didn't like the first chapter, so I quit reading Wow! Not really all that different from her other books, subject matter aside.
JCB is VERY good at what she does, What she does is write southern women!

She is the Tyler Perry of Southern wannabe Belles, We may not always like what she has to say but you can usually make bank on it causing you to laugh out loud, even at yourveryownself!

My favorite part of her books is her ADD habit of getting off track and having the detour make me laugh until I ache.
But even if she didnt crack me up, I would still read her books, for THE RECIPES she includes in

every one of them! If southern decadence were a cathedral, it would be filled to the arches with potluck dishes made from these recipes!! Long live JCB!!!

Could not finish reading, between the casual use of EVERY swear word out there and, how shall I say this delicately.
. . Delicately She doesn't know the meaning of the word, For instance in describing body hair, Then there is her need to use CAPITALIZED words FOR EMPHASIS EVERYWHERE until they BECOME ANNOYING instead of amusing, I tried but two chapters if that in I gave up, This book had a few funny thoughts I listened to it on audio and did not worry about what I was missing if I had to turn down the volume to do something not sure I could have gotten through the written version.
Mostly surface level fluff with an affected Southern Belle attitude, Would be obnoxious to spend a long time here, but fun for a short excursion, Her observations about aging and wisdom learned over time often contained wry wisdom that made me chuckle,

pg.re: skin "You've got to live in it your whole ENtire life, so consider yourself behooved to taking great good care with it and of it.
Our mamas didn't know any better than to let everybody, themselves and us, get chargrilled every summer of the world up until aboutor thereabouts, when a few people did start to acknowledge the existence of melanoma.
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pg."Often the Big Panty Conversion and the Comfy Shoe Switch coincide but it's not carved in stone, Big Panties are generally discovered during pregnancy and we never willingly give them up for long after that, Usually, the only way we ever give them up is in the case of Divorce and/or Death, which results in a repeat plunge into the dating poo, thereby unfortunately necessitating a resumption of Pretty Underwear for a time, but once we either settle in with a new man or get reeeeelly happy without one, it's amazing how fast we find that 'the dryer ate my thongs' and Queen Comfort reigns supreme once more.
" This book is a series of funny anecdotes from a Southern woman whose claim to fame is declaring herself the Sweet Potato Queen in the annual St.
Patrick's day parade in Jackson, Mississippi, I listened to the audiobook, read by the author in her Southern accent, which added to the charm of the stories, There were times when I laughed out loud, and I enjoyed the Southern perspective on things, Many of the stories in this book are about growing older and how women's bodies change and lose all of the appeal they did when they were younger, and I didn't like the negative attitude about aging.
The author tells the story about how she warns heryearold daughter that she should enjoy wearing bikinis now because one day she will turn into her and have old, saggy thighs that must be covered up, etc.
The author laments about how she misses the days when she was young and skinny and wore backless dresses, and how she, and other women of a certain age, can't wear that stuff anymore.
I guess I expected more rebellion against "old woman" stereotypes from the Sweet Potato Queen, I do see the changes in my own body as I grow older lately I see my chin sagging!, and I understand they can make funny anecdotes.
I especially loved the mention of the woman who suddenly realized at the age ofthat she now has her mother's butt.
I can relate to that! Shes just plain funny Queen Jill of the SPQ Sweet Potato Queen fame once agains pens a witty funny story for women of a certain age.
If you are a "Lovely Larva" ltyou may not appreciate the humor and stories of tanning yes, guilty of the baby oil and iodine routine with Led Zepplin's Stairway to Heaven double album!, family, friends, fashion and hairstyles, football games and drinking, careers and hobbies until you become a woman who can be comfortable with YOU! Witty little vignettes of life that will have your memory remembering been there done that and have you laughing at the same time! Jill ended the book with a chapter called FFFFFT after Fifty with some memorable advice and reminder of Psalm:"This is the day that the Lord hath made, let us rejoice and be glad in it!" Remember there is no looking back just forward!


I have several complaints about this book.
. The Southern "voice" is so overthetop that it's hard to understand, I'm sure this lady is funny in person, but on paper it just looks like a bunch of ridiculous metaphors,. I like a good rant as much as the next person, but a book chock full of them Not so much, Come on, you've gotta have a point in there somewhere!, Ease up on the CAPS LOCK for pete's sake! The pages look like the ravings of ayearold girl, not a grownass woman! This was lots of fun.
. . I listened to the audio which was perfect for her Southern Accent, I'm a Yankee, but I certainly admire the Southern ladies and their traditional style and flair, One favorite description that describes a Southern lady's back handed compliments was, "Gracious hostility", TOTALLY loved that phrase!

I did understand so much of Jill's "historical" or should I say "hersterical" much more fitting, to getting older, girdles, and other clothing references of the time.
I'm slightly younger, but do remember, . . I also got a bit kick out of her references to "Larve", This is my first book from this author, I'be checking out more and wishing I could check out that parade of her's in March!.

"American Thighs" was funny in a light and fluffy way, but as I was listening I kept on thinking about the next thing I was going to read.
I just wasn't as engaged as I normally am with a book, Jill Conner Browne never fails to make me laugh, This is a must read book for anyone over, In a discussion on memory, she said she made a pact with a friend who was getting forgetful also, They promised that whicever one of them was the last in possession of a brain cell would somehow kill the one who had lost all of hers.
All of this is in context to the process of forgetfullness, My favorite comment from Queen Jill is that grandkids are the upside of Geezerdom, . . since those adorable babies turn into Teenage "Mutant Hounds" and after all the parent of that child put you through you can laugh and laugh at the grandkids teenage antics from the sanctuary of your own home.
Ahhh Justice. This books is kinda funny, but lost my interest after awhile, Just enormous fun! Snarky, witty, occasionally dirty, this was just a rambling fun romp into the life and observations of the Sweet Potato Queen.
And it includes recipes! Some of them are waaayyyy too Southern for me read: walking heart attack waiting to happen, but a couple of them sound really good! Like the pineapple vodka! You must read this as an audiobook to appreciate.
Do not read if you are not at leastwith kids or a husband or the humor may be lost on you.

If you are not from the south, there may be parts that clearly aren't as funny, It is a random monologue of amusing probably true stories in her
charming souther dialect, completely uninhibited and unabashed honest, If you don't like off color jokes, you won't appreciate, I however loved it and can't wait to read the SPH books, which are apparently funnier, I will get them all as audiobooks, If you truly thought this was self help and disappointed
that the content was what you were expecting, you need to lighten up and enjoy the easy humor.
I have read most of the Sweet Potato Queens books so far, At first I was disappointed in this one, Reason The picture of the author on the dust cover, shows us that she appears to be a petite, attractive brunette, instead of the bigboned, brassy, gumsnapping woman she portrays herself to be in this series of books.
So I felt that maybe these books are more comic fiction than about real women who eat too much and talk when they shouldn't which is the reason I read the first several books in the first place.


But by the end, I was laughing out loud, like I did through the other books, Still, now I feel somewhat like I did after reading "A Million Little Pieces" and finding out that James Frey was not who he claimed to be.
This author talks a lot about not being able to fit her big butt in a chair, when in reality she appears to be anything but overweight.




I may have preferred to read this rather than listen to it, Although the author's accent does add flavor, she read so slowly that it diminished the experiencedisks should've beenor even, This was my first Sweet Potato Queens experience amp I see how she turned it into a "movement", Parts of this book made me snort aloud amp hit the reply button the tale of a young woman falling into a "big giant cow" at a fair being my favorite.
I feel like I spent a reunion weekend with my southern sorority sisters, telling "remember when" stories over LOTS of cocktails many laughs, not much substance.
When she goes for substance at the end, it fails a whole book of funny tales capped by "sage tips on how to live amp appreciate life" felt disjointed amp preachy.
It's really a.star book for me I'm a southern woman who can relate to this stuff amp appreciates a good laugh, but they don't give/star options.
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