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We're Just Like You, Only Prettier: Confessions of a Tarnished Southern Belle
We're Just Like You Only Prettier Confessions of a Tarnished Southern Belle
Author: Celia Rivenbark
Why couldn't the Sopranos survive living down South? — Simple. You can't shoot a guy full of holes after eating chicken and pastry, spoon bread, okra, and tomatoes. — What does a Southern woman consider grounds for divorce? — When daddy takes the kids out in public dressed in their pajama tops and Tweety Bird swim socks. Again. — What is the...  more »
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ISBN-13: 9780312312442
ISBN-10: 031231244X
Publication Date: 2/1/2005
Pages: 288
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  • Currently 3.6/5 Stars.
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3.6 stars, based on 159 ratings
Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover, Audio Cassette
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fefelants avatar reviewed We're Just Like You, Only Prettier: Confessions of a Tarnished Southern Belle on + 11 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 8
Great funny read by a newpaper columnist that writes for the Sun Times in Myrtle Beach, SC. She tells it like it is. If her column is half as funny as this book, then the paper is a hit too!! I read this one first, but I've gotten her first book and it's near the top of my TBR Pile!! Actual laugh out loud moments explaining and justifying the Southern Redneck Way of Life. And, footnote on that, I'm Southern by choice - not by birth - and it's the best move I've ever made!!
GroovyGlitterGirl avatar reviewed We're Just Like You, Only Prettier: Confessions of a Tarnished Southern Belle on + 45 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 5
This is so funny that I may have to keep it. Celia writes a column for the Myrtle Beach newpaper and you can read more of her stunny southern wit on their website. Being a bit of a bitchy southern girl myself, I laugh outloud everytime I pick something of hers up. Read it and then call your best friend and read her excerpts, you'll find yourself snorting outloud just trying to read it to someone else :)
reviewed We're Just Like You, Only Prettier: Confessions of a Tarnished Southern Belle on + 300 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 3
Collection of humorous essays concerning life in the South. I caught myself laughing out loud several times while reading this book.

Funny, sweet, strong and slightly outrageous - like many Southern women that I have known!
IntrepidOne avatar reviewed We're Just Like You, Only Prettier: Confessions of a Tarnished Southern Belle on + 157 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 3
I could not finish this book, it was painful. I have lived all my life in Georgia except for a very brief period when I lived in South Carolina. Some of the "southern" expressions in this book I have never heard in my life.
reviewed We're Just Like You, Only Prettier: Confessions of a Tarnished Southern Belle on + 3 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 2
This book has laugh-out-loud moments in every chapter. As soon as I finished I passed it along to my South Carolina friend and she's also loving it.
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portabellopig avatar reviewed We're Just Like You, Only Prettier: Confessions of a Tarnished Southern Belle on + 40 more book reviews
While I didn't laugh out loud *quite* as often as I did with "Stop Dressing Your Six Year Old Like a Skank", there were still plenty of LOL moments and snickers to drive my husband crazy. Rivenbark is deliciously sharp and funny, and her humor definitely trasfers to those of us born and raised above the Mason-Dixon. Over-achieving friends, 'manly' husbands and their big screen TVs and the most feared, highly unfortunate basement poo explosion - I dare you to find something you can't identify with and laugh at.
reviewed We're Just Like You, Only Prettier: Confessions of a Tarnished Southern Belle on + 26 more book reviews
"Tarnished" is the key word: don't read this if coarse language and off-color humor bug you.
babyjulie avatar reviewed We're Just Like You, Only Prettier: Confessions of a Tarnished Southern Belle on + 336 more book reviews
Not as good as Stop Dressing...but funny still. Worth reading but don't miss Stop Dressing- you'll laugh all day long!


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