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Summary: Made Me Remember My Childhood
Review: My gums got a bit dried out like her bucked-toothed character while reading about her antics. What a nice way to spend a few minutes every night, reading this little chapbook of sorts. It made me remember all the funny episodes you forget about your own childhood, all the vivid detail and vinegar. Makes me also want to have lunch with Miss Mann to get a good side ache. Hope she writes another!
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Summary: Great gift idea for cancer patients
Review: Plantation Princess is a cultural gift to all of us. There is enough pathos, humor and unguarded honesty here to bring tears to the eyes of people raised in the South, and to touch the hearts of the most jaded Yankee. (That would be me, a transplant from Chicago to Memphis and then the Ozarks.) Louise Mann's unflinching treatment of breast cancer captures the brave, in-your-face humor that has become an American phenomenon in radiation therapy rooms all over the country today. If someone you know or love does have breast cancer, this is the perfect gift (right after Bernie Siegel's books). It is also the perfect farewell gift for Yankees moving South. Plantation Princess is "Rebecca Wells meets Erma Bombeck... at the cottin gin."
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Summary: Small town life at its best!
Review: Plantation Princess is heartwarming and hilarious. It makes me want to move to a small town and experience first hand the slow pace of life and the unique adventures that pace inspires.
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Summary: Plantation Princess is hysterical!
Review: Reading this book was like reliving my childhood. Mann was able to make Aunt Cappy and the one-bosomed ladies so real that I felt like I knew each one personally. This is a must read for anyone longing for the laughter of childhood, and the characters of a small southern town. Wonderful!!
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Summary: Plantation Princess from Another Planet
Review: Since moving to the South from NYC 10 years ago, I have been discovering wonderful storytellers like Fannie Flag and Rebecca Wells. I have just discovered another in Louise G. Mann. This "little" book of vignettes is a BIG book in humour and poignant stories. With her book Miss Mann was able to make me laugh while telling very touching stories about growing up in the Delta. I read the book in December and recommended it to my Book Club for January. Here are some of the comments from the Book Club's January meeting: "funny, laughed out loud", "story of herself with self-confidence, ddin't follow rules, author willing to reveal things about her childhood that were not accepted in her society", "astounded when someone is in the forest and can see the trees, can recognize was universal when it is not in your world "neighbors borrow breast implants the way they borrow cake pans"", "a slice of southern americana, we are storytellers in the South". Congratulations to Miss Mann on an excellent FIRST. I hope she is busy working on a second book, I can't hardly wait!
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Summary: Plantation Princess from Another Planet
Review: Since moving to the South from NYC 10 years ago, I have been discovering wonderful storytellers like Fannie Flag and Rebecca Wells. I have just discovered another in Louise G. Mann. This "little" book of vignettes is a BIG book in humour and poignant stories. With her book Miss Mann was able to make me laugh while telling very touching stories about growing up in the Delta. I read the book in December and recommended it to my Book Club for January. Here are some of the comments from the Book Club's January meeting: "funny, laughed out loud", "story of herself with self-confidence, ddin't follow rules, author willing to reveal things about her childhood that were not accepted in her society", "astounded when someone is in the forest and can see the trees, can recognize was universal when it is not in your world "neighbors borrow breast implants the way they borrow cake pans"", "a slice of southern americana, we are storytellers in the South". Congratulations to Miss Mann on an excellent FIRST. I hope she is busy working on a second book, I can't hardly wait!
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Summary: You Don't Have To Be Southern to Love This Book!!!
Review: The author, Louise Mann describes her life in the south in the most humorous manner. Just like all of us, you don't hide your crazy relatives you talk about them and are proud of them. She has included herself in a way that you feel you are in her go-cart with her or up that wonderful Shumard oak tree.
Take time out and read this book and you will find it a favorite for life. Remember, we are "Making Memories"!!!
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Summary: You Don't Have To Be Southern to Love This Book!!!
Review: The author, Louise Mann describes her life in the south in the most humorous manner. Just like all of us, you don't hide your crazy relatives you talk about them and are proud of them. She has included herself in a way that you feel you are in her go-cart with her or up that wonderful Shumard oak tree.
Take time out and read this book and you will find it a favorite for life. Remember, we are "Making Memories"!!!
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Summary: Small town life at its best!
Review: The Plantation Princess stories are just amazing! I hope there will be more! Being born and raised in Michigan, ever since my mom read the Uncle Remus stories to me (Brer Rabbit, Brer Fox and all the rest) and seeing the movie "Gone With the Wind," I have been wondering about "The South." But then came the days of the movie "Easy Rider," and out came the National Guard "insuring integration," and the graphic pictures of what happened to black people when the "Klu Klux Clan" got to them. "The South" truly was another planet to me. I never even KNEW anyone who had seen "the deep south" (which even sounds like a conspiracy novel) much less gone there myself. But I've thought about it a lot, wondering if I, a white person, could have done any better had I grown up in those circumstances, wondering how it would have felt to be a child in a world of such strange duality. So far, only Black Americans have shouldered the burden of "telling." Thank you, Louise Mann, for "breaking rank," obviously you know that only when all races share, will there be interacial healing. You "told" with much compassion for all (and such raucous good humor, I giggled out loud, A LOT!) Please, tell us more stories. May Peace be with you.
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Summary: Just Amazing
Review: The Plantation Princess stories are just amazing! I hope there will be more! Being born and raised in Michigan, ever since my mom read the Uncle Remus stories to me (Brer Rabbit, Brer Fox and all the rest) and seeing the movie "Gone With the Wind," I have been wondering about "The South." But then came the days of the movie "Easy Rider," and out came the National Guard "insuring integration," and the graphic pictures of what happened to black people when the "Klu Klux Clan" got to them. "The South" truly was another planet to me. I never even KNEW anyone who had seen "the deep south" (which even sounds like a conspiracy novel) much less gone there myself. But I've thought about it a lot, wondering if I, a white person, could have done any better had I grown up in those circumstances, wondering how it would have felt to be a child in a world of such strange duality. So far, only Black Americans have shouldered the burden of "telling." Thank you, Louise Mann, for "breaking rank," obviously you know that only when all races share, will there be interacial healing. You "told" with much compassion for all (and such raucous good humor, I giggled out loud, A LOT!) Please, tell us more stories. May Peace be with you.
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