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Summary: Around the dinner table
Review: These are the kind of stories that will make you laugh 'till you hurt. If you were sitting around the dinner table and listening to them, you'd be doubled-over with laughter. From a Northerner now living in the South, these are the kind of stories that bring to life Southern culture and humor. These stories can be read over and over and your mouth will never tire of curling up in its corners. Even my mother-in-law, a die-hard New Jersey-ite, laughed and laughed.
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Summary: Hilarious Southern Story- Telling
Review: Upon receiving this book, I tore into its pages and laughed the whole way through. This is a book which has you immediately engulfed with its humour, and effective southern narration. I felt as though the book was being read to me, and as I laughed out loud almost continually, I started to think it was reading itself. Wonderful, wonderful.
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Summary: Southerner finds Plantation Princess a familiar life.
Review: What a great beginning work for Louise Mann! Louise Mann took her her thick brisled paint brush and painted a grand picture of growing up in the south. Planation Princess reaches across a broad spectrum of the deep south and leaves southern readers remembering when, and our more northern cousins wishing they could step back into their childhood and hook a ride on the Southern Express down to the flat fertile land and be a part of a childhood like Louise Mann's that she so vividly remembers. The south is made of it's people, with eccentricities and character unlike any other place on earth. Good memories is what this book celebrates, good because the memories are surrounded by good people; people she loved, people she thought were funny, people she respected and people she was around simply because of her circumstance at the time.And from all of that the mawkish memories flood the page and a great writing talent is born! William Faulkner always said write about what you know. It is apparent that Louise Mann paid attention growing up! Remembering everthing from one-bosomed women to the study of partaking of the "libation," Louise Mann let's us see everything from steel magnolias to the always present good ole boys. Not only did Louise Mann write about these characters and bring them to life in her written word but her illustrator could have been no less than her guardian angel throughout her girlhood. Who else could could create such an artistic view of the told story. Louise Mann's description and illustrator Vicki Hendrix's Art work seem as though they were painted from the same eye. The southern, it is said, has always had a great "sense of place," thank goodness Louise Mann did not forget her's.
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Summary: Southerner finds Plantation Princess a familiar life.
Review: What a great beginning work for Louise Mann! Louise Mann took her her thick brisled paint brush and painted a grand picture of growing up in the south. Planation Princess reaches across a broad spectrum of the deep south and leaves southern readers remembering when, and our more northern cousins wishing they could step back into their childhood and hook a ride on the Southern Express down to the flat fertile land and be a part of a childhood like Louise Mann's that she so vividly remembers. The south is made of it's people, with eccentricities and character unlike any other place on earth. Good memories is what this book celebrates, good because the memories are surrounded by good people; people she loved, people she thought were funny, people she respected and people she was around simply because of her circumstance at the time.And from all of that the mawkish memories flood the page and a great writing talent is born! William Faulkner always said write about what you know. It is apparent that Louise Mann paid attention growing up! Remembering everthing from one-bosomed women to the study of partaking of the "libation," Louise Mann let's us see everything from steel magnolias to the always present good ole boys. Not only did Louise Mann write about these characters and bring them to life in her written word but her illustrator could have been no less than her guardian angel throughout her girlhood. Who else could could create such an artistic view of the told story. Louise Mann's description and illustrator Vicki Hendrix's Art work seem as though they were painted from the same eye. The southern, it is said, has always had a great "sense of place," thank goodness Louise Mann did not forget her's.
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Summary: Priceless Plantation Princess
Review: When I got this book I started reading it the instant I opened it
Being born in the south I can relate to most of this book.I could not stop laughing out loud.Louise Mann is a hillarious auther.Probably the best book I have ever read!
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Summary: Little book with big chuckle
Review: When I saw the cover of Plantation Princess, I knew I was in for a treat. A few good laughs before falling asleep was all I wanted. But I hadn1t counted on staying up rollicking with delight. This charming anecdotal string of belly-laughing stories from some make-believe place in Arkansas has got to be true or it wouldn1t be so funny.The author says it1s fiction but no one could make it up. A man who pees in his pantry? A one-bossomed woman who tosses her silicon prosthetic into the wood pile? You1re in store for a few chuckles that don't wake anybody up and a passle more that will bring everybody in to see what you are up to. It1s a short book. Only ten vignettes. Just a little something to slip into someone1s pocket. It1s a gift book for someone who is traveling, or moving, or just needs a cheery nightcap. Try it yourself. Then get a few more for your friends who1ve left the South.
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