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Title: Southern Belle Primer by Maryln Schwartz ISBN: 0-385-41667-9 Publisher: Main Street Books Pub. Date: 01 August, 1991 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $11.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.59 (27 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Very, Very Entertaining, Even for a Yankee
Comment: I received this book, along with New Times in the Old South (wonderful as well) by Ms. Schwartz, as a 15-year-old faced with the prospect of moving from New Jersey to a small town in southern Georgia. I did not want to read the book, as I was to remain at my boarding school in the North and didn't care to move to some town where there was only one traffic light! Now I think moving there would have been a fun experience, but it never did come to fruition. I think my mother was disappointed that my sister and I would not be debutantes and sorority girls.
Except that I became a sorority girl. I went to college never expecting to rush, but, lo and behold, I did, and I got a bid from a sorority that is extremely prominent in the South. As a newly-initiated 18-year-old, I picked up this book and could not stop reading it! While it is definitely tongue-in-cheek, there were all these descriptions of Southern ladyhood that made me wish I had moved there! And then reading comments about MY sorority in particular... I could have died laughing! I used to read it during breaks at work that summer, and the women I worked with were always having me read excerpts to them because I'd be laughing so hard.
While it would have been easy for me, as a Northerner, to dismiss this book as making fun of the South since it does have a slight sarcastic tone to it, I can appreciate that some of it is very true, which I have learned from friends born south of the Mason-Dixon and from my experiences receiving invitations to debutante balls in Austria. I am 23 now and still recount tales from this book to friends and recommend that they read it regardless of whether or not they have connections to the South. It also made me understand my southern friends a whole lot better, especially the girls.
This book provides a very entertaining perspective on Southern culture that in some ways makes us up here want to start calling the Civil War the "War of Northern Aggression." Ok, maybe not, but I will admit that this book made me wish I had gotten to experience the Southern way of life, even if only for a few years. I would also like to note that every Halloween I contemplate buying an expensive Scarlett O'Hara costume...
Rating: 5
Summary: Loved it! Good info if you are moving South.
Comment: I'm moving to the South so I thought I should learn a few things about the culture. This book was a perfect introduction. Short and sweet, it doesn't take itself seriously. I heard about things new to me, like competition to get into the Junior League and picking out your silverware pattern before you're even engaged! Fun to read.
Rating: 5
Summary: Love it!
Comment: I really enjoyed this a lot. It was funny and useful at the same time.
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Title: What Southern Women Know (That Every Woman Should): Timeless Secrets to Get Everything You Want in Love, Life, and Work by Ronda Rich ISBN: 0399526277 Publisher: Perigee Pub. Date: 12 September, 2000 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: Grits (Girls Raised in the South) Guide to Life by Deborah Ford, Edie Hand ISBN: 0525947264 Publisher: E P Dutton Pub. Date: 14 April, 2003 List Price(USD): $22.95 |
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Title: 1001 Things Everyone Should Know/South by John Reed, Dale Volberg Reed ISBN: 0385474423 Publisher: Main Street Books Pub. Date: 16 June, 1997 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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Title: The Southern Belle's Handbook : Sissy LeBlanc's Rules to Live By by Loraine Despres ISBN: 0060540893 Publisher: Avon Pub. Date: 29 April, 2003 List Price(USD): $9.95 |
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Title: Southern Ladies & Gentlemen by Florence King ISBN: 0312099150 Publisher: St. Martin's Press Pub. Date: 15 July, 1993 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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