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| | | NEW & USED GENERAL BOOKS OF INTEREST | Home » » Swag: Southern Women Aging Gracefully | | | | | | | Description: | | SWAG started as a lark when Thompson began a monthly mailing of her humorous essays about ordinary events from a Southern woman's perspective. Over several years, her subscription list grew to nearly 5,000 people in 28 states. Covering topics that range from swimsuit shopping, to family reunions, to squirrel battles, to sick children, to cemetery etiquette, this volume will fit right alongside the Sweet Potato Queens and the Ya-Ya Sisterhood. | | | Product Details: | | | Author:
| Melinda Rainey Thompson | | Paperback:
| 309 pages | | Publisher:
| John F. Blair Publisher | | Publication Date:
| August 28, 2006 | | Language:
| English | | ISBN:
| 089587329X | | Package Length:
| 8.3 inches | | Package Width:
| 5.5 inches | | Package Height:
| 0.7 inches | | Package Weight:
| 0.95 pounds | | Average Customer Rating:
|  based on 19 reviews |
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1 of 1 found the following review helpful:
Brilliant!Feb 04, 2010
If you grew up in the South; are over 40 and have started to forget your breeding - buy this book immediately! While I'm a Virginian I found this book to still be the most entertaining thing I'd read in a very long time. I haven't lived in the South unfortunately for over 30 years and in fact have lived in Australia for the past 20 but before finishing the first essay my accent was back and I had a glass of sweet tea in progress. I am married to a Yankee so marked several essays that he needed to read - his reaction was that after 20+ years together he now understood some of my "peculiarities" I laughed so hard I had to keep my asthma inhaler nearby every time I picked up the book! The best recommendation I can give is that I've ordered Melinda's other two books and that I had planned to send this on to my sister but will have to buy her another one - I need to keep this one!
1 of 2 found the following review helpful:
Melinda knows her "GRITS"Jun 10, 2008
I grew up with Melinda's maternal and paternal family, even though the author was a tadpole when last I saw her. As an author myself and a retired English teacher, I find Melinda's talent with her craft endearing, stimulating, hilarious, and very sensory. So many of her adventures were (and are) my own, even though we're a generation apart; she makes me see, hear, smell, and taste my own childhood in that small Alabama town.
Melinda reminds many of us that we're not only "GRITS" (Girls Raised in the South) but also "SWAGs" (Southern Women Aging Gracefully) and damn proud of it!!!
2 of 2 found the following review helpful:
SWAGJan 14, 2008
I purchased this book as a Christmas gift for my sister. I enjoyed the book when I read it. I am still waiting to hear if she enjoyed it as well.
2 of 3 found the following review helpful:
Great Book!Nov 19, 2007
Everything about this book was great. So TRUE! If you are a woman in the South, you will really dig this book!
10 of 10 found the following review helpful:
 SWAG is Swell, wait, let me freshen my lipstickNov 11, 2007
Though I am from a different region of the South than the author, the truisms smack you in the face like the humidty on a hot Southern summer's day. She has captured the essence of all of us who were reared in the South. And it is true, that most of us over a "certain" age prefer red lipstick. After all, Revlon wouldn't lie to us, would they?
I vary between gales of laughter and nodding in agreement while reading and wish someone were here so I could read it aloud to them.
She has captured our little customs, the SOP of our daily lives in a way no Yankee could ever do, but still it is an inspiration to those women who grew up North of the Mason-Dixon line and want to understand the mystique of Southern women. Men should read this as well. It is full of insights on how to survive with a Southern woman in a close personal relationship.
G Hileman, Middle TN and now FL
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