This is, to date, the last Rivenbark book I had left to read. I can now say without a doubt that Stop Dressing Your Six-Year-Old Like a Skank: And Other Words of Delicate Southern Wisdom is by far the best in my opinion. All of her others are still worth reading I think and I enjoyed them all. At the very least you will be chuckling out loud if not laughing.
The funny thing to me is I despise damn near everything southern. I can't stand the accent, I hate Georgia and Florida with a passion usually only reserved for the most horrible of things, and to be frank, the food stinks. So I can't answer the question as to why I picked up my first Celia book. That's okay though, because in Celia I found my the first "thing" I liked about the South.
I wouldn't look Rivenbark's books over if your a Yankee and hate the South (like moi). They may not win you over like they did me but I think it's worth a shot.
I'd love to read a whole and complete book by Rivenbark. I know she has the talent and I think she'd be starting a whole new thing with it. I'd run out and get it asap for sure. I'll keep reading her short stories as of right now but I'm not sure how much longer it can go on.

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I love Celia Rivenbark! She's a little crude, but says what she thinks and what the rest of us would like to say if we weren't trying to be polite. She's hilarious!

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This book is a hoot. Really funny and very descriptive too.

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I actually got this for a girl at work. When she finished it, she passed it on to me. One of the "funnest" books I have ever read. I'm laughing out loud while I"m reading. My husband thinks I've lost my mind. He's probably right, but the book is GREAT!!

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