Anne K. (fefelants) 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!!
Lori S. (GroovyGlitterGirl) -
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 :)
Greta S. 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!
Funny, sweet, strong and slightly outrageous - like many Southern women that I have known!
Amy H. (IntrepidOne) 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.
Angie F. (TXAngie) 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.
Lorrie M. (ilovedale3) reviewed We're Just Like You, Only Prettier: Confessions of a Tarnished Southern Belle on + 524 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 1
Extremely funny!!! Southern women will roll in the floor laughing at Rivenbark's humorous stories!
Georgianna L. (slamdraft) reviewed We're Just Like You, Only Prettier: Confessions of a Tarnished Southern Belle on + 10 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 1
I really loved this book. couldn't stop laughing!
Liz R. (lizzbabe) reviewed We're Just Like You, Only Prettier: Confessions of a Tarnished Southern Belle on + 29 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 1
Absolutely hilarious even for a Yankee like me!
Genie B. (geniemt) reviewed We're Just Like You, Only Prettier: Confessions of a Tarnished Southern Belle on + 9 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 1
I howled with laughter from the first page of this book. I've started carrying it with me for waiting-in-line reading and have told all my friends to track it down.
Lisa P. (FamFatale) -
Helpful Score: 1
I enjoyed this book very much, despite being a Northerner by birth.
Lynne B. (boze) reviewed We're Just Like You, Only Prettier: Confessions of a Tarnished Southern Belle on + 66 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 1
Found myself laughing out loud quite a bit and much of the book hit quite close to home for me. Enjoyed and recommend. Some similarities to Laurie Notaro if Laurie was a Southerner with children.
Erin F. (erinfickling) reviewed We're Just Like You, Only Prettier: Confessions of a Tarnished Southern Belle on
Helpful Score: 1
Absoluetly loved this book! Laughed out loud many of times while reading.
Shannon K. (peche) reviewed We're Just Like You, Only Prettier: Confessions of a Tarnished Southern Belle on
Helpful Score: 1
The first half of the book is hysterical. The line about the Greatest Generation and the turkey had me snotting. I tried to read it to my husband and even with my lame rendition (kept laughing)it made him laugh just as heartily. The rest of the book is mainly focused on her life as a mother. It's amusing and has some good lines, but the book lost its way as a southern primer.
Jennifer N. (jnorvell) -
Helpful Score: 1
I laughed so much while reading this book! I read it in one day, cause I just couldn't put it down.
" Little things that have no business bothering me drive me nuts. Like how, no matter how often I ask, my husband never shuts a cabinet or closet door. This means I must systematically go through the entire house slamming doors like Joan Crawford on crank and sobbing: "How (slam) inconsiderate (slam) can one (slam) person (slam) be?"
"I shouldn't wonder that he can't shut doors because he can't see things right in front of his own eyes. Why else would he ask me where his shoes are (in the closet) or the eyedrops (tee-hee in the oven) as though my ovaries are endowed with superhuman powers allowing me to see behind closed doors or drawers?"
" Little things that have no business bothering me drive me nuts. Like how, no matter how often I ask, my husband never shuts a cabinet or closet door. This means I must systematically go through the entire house slamming doors like Joan Crawford on crank and sobbing: "How (slam) inconsiderate (slam) can one (slam) person (slam) be?"
"I shouldn't wonder that he can't shut doors because he can't see things right in front of his own eyes. Why else would he ask me where his shoes are (in the closet) or the eyedrops (tee-hee in the oven) as though my ovaries are endowed with superhuman powers allowing me to see behind closed doors or drawers?"
Lindsey F. (Lin11879) reviewed We're Just Like You, Only Prettier: Confessions of a Tarnished Southern Belle on + 11 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 1
I was a little disappointed. This was the first book I had read by this author, and I expected it to be more amusing. It was a light, fast, easy read, quite relaxing. But I did not laugh as much as I thought I would.
Jayne W. (jaynew) reviewed We're Just Like You, Only Prettier: Confessions of a Tarnished Southern Belle on + 25 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 1
This is an absolutely hilarious book for woman who has been raised in the South.
Bonnie F. (harmony85) reviewed We're Just Like You, Only Prettier: Confessions of a Tarnished Southern Belle on + 982 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 1
This book is a fun, quick, enjoyable read, although some (only some!) parts I thought were a little dumb. All in all I enjoyed it.
Angie H. (AngieH) reviewed We're Just Like You, Only Prettier: Confessions of a Tarnished Southern Belle on + 13 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 1
A laugh out loud must-read for all southern "ladies" or anyone who wants to know how their minds work!
Dev W. (books4life) reviewed We're Just Like You, Only Prettier: Confessions of a Tarnished Southern Belle on + 6 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 1
Funny book!
Eva Marie L. (babyjulie) -
Not as good as Stop Dressing...but funny still. Worth reading but don't miss Stop Dressing- you'll laugh all day long!
Miki B. (MikiOz) reviewed We're Just Like You, Only Prettier: Confessions of a Tarnished Southern Belle on + 43 more book reviews
While this precursor to "Stop Dressing Your Six-Year-Old Like a Skank" is not as funny as that title, there are still many snort-worthy, laugh-out-loud moments in this book. Her take on our modern society is dead-on accurate. What makes her writing so good is that you really want to be this woman's friend. At least, I do. Hanging out drinking sweet tea with Celia while she clues this Yankee in to the cultural minutiae of Southern life? You bet. Sign me up.
Sandy H. (sandymom) 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.
Ashley B. reviewed We're Just Like You, Only Prettier: Confessions of a Tarnished Southern Belle on + 15 more book reviews
Celia's hilarious and this book is a great example of just how funny she really is. You really gotta read it!
Amy R. (WanderingFeet) reviewed We're Just Like You, Only Prettier: Confessions of a Tarnished Southern Belle on + 4 more book reviews
Very, very funny!
Renee C. (MerryHearted) -
A light, funny read
Tamisha D. reviewed We're Just Like You, Only Prettier: Confessions of a Tarnished Southern Belle on + 11 more book reviews
A wonderful read! A great look into the south. Even though there were some differences it reminded me of being back home in the midwest!
RUTH H. (swaptions) reviewed We're Just Like You, Only Prettier: Confessions of a Tarnished Southern Belle on + 28 more book reviews
Even if you're not a Southern woman, this book will probably appeal to your sense of humor on the truly patience-trying issues of modern life such as Chuck E Cheese, impossible Sunday School craft projects, co-ed baby showers, and big-screen TVs.
Holly S. (hoLLyLew) reviewed We're Just Like You, Only Prettier: Confessions of a Tarnished Southern Belle on + 51 more book reviews
This was a fun, fast read. Very entertaining.
Barbara B. (bbfreckles) reviewed We're Just Like You, Only Prettier: Confessions of a Tarnished Southern Belle on
I would like to keep this book because I think I could read it over and over. But I will pass it on because I want more people to enjoy it. Every chapter was laugh out loud funny. Real women funny. I toally recommend it. I will definately be reading anything else Celia Rivenbark writes.
Bonnie P. (bonbon) reviewed We're Just Like You, Only Prettier: Confessions of a Tarnished Southern Belle on + 104 more book reviews
Cute summer read....funny.
Marillyn G. (blessedprincess) reviewed We're Just Like You, Only Prettier: Confessions of a Tarnished Southern Belle on + 32 more book reviews
Short stories that make you laugh.
Lisa P. (FamFatale) -
Funny look at Southern "society"
Jeanette R. (thebeakeeper) reviewed We're Just Like You, Only Prettier: Confessions of a Tarnished Southern Belle on + 167 more book reviews
i LOVED the first half of this book. I just wanted to buy a duble wide, a fried sickers, move down to atlanta and meet matty and nikki at the waffle house. but the second half of the book seemed to really stray from southerners to just people and things in general. i felt like she lost her purpose, or got writers block half way through. loved loved loved the first half. totally laughed out loud while reading it!!!
Tara R. (portabellopig) 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.
Bree G. (paisleywings) reviewed We're Just Like You, Only Prettier: Confessions of a Tarnished Southern Belle on + 232 more book reviews
A whole lot of fun. Sometimes I wonder if the south is a different universe.
Robin M. (piglover) reviewed We're Just Like You, Only Prettier: Confessions of a Tarnished Southern Belle on + 30 more book reviews
A very enjoyable read. As a southerner, I can identify with some of the stories in this book. You will laugh when reading the book.
