You Cant Drink All Day If You Dont ..., Celia Rivenbark
You Cant Drink All Day If You Dont ..., Celia Rivenbark
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You Can't Drink All Day If You Don't Start in the Morning

Author: Celia Rivenbark

Narrator: Celia Rivenbark

Unabridged: 3 hr 55 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 09/01/2009

Categories: Nonfiction, Humor

Includes: Bonus Material Bonus Material Included


Synopsis

From the author of the bestselling classics We're Just Like You, Only Prettier, and Bless Your Heart, Tramp, comes a collection of essays so funny, you'll shoot co'cola out of your nose. Topics include such gems as:

• Why Miss North Carolina is too nice to hate

• How Gwyneth Paltrow wants to improve your pathetic life

• Strapped for cash? Try cat whispering

• Sex every night for a year? How do you wrap that?

• Get yer Wassail on: It's carolin' time

• Airlines serving up one hot mess

• Action figure Jesus

• Why Clay Aiken ain't marrying your glandular daughter

• And much more!

You Can't Drink All Day if You Don't Start in the Mornin' is sure to appeal to anyone who lives south of something.

About Celia Rivenbark

Celia Rivenbark is the author of the award-winning bestsellers Stop Dressing Your Six-Year-Old Like a Skank; Bless Your Heart, Tramp; Belle Weather; and You Can’t Drink All Day If You Don’t Start in the Morning. We’re Just Like You, Only Prettier won a Southern Independent Booksellers Alliance (SIBA) Book Award for nonfiction and was a finalist for the James Thurber Prize for American Humor. Born and raised in Duplin County, North Carolina, Rivenbark grew up in a small house “with a red barn out back that was populated by a couple of dozen lanky and unvaccinated cats.” She started out writing for her hometown paper. She writes a weekly, nationally syndicated humor column for the Myrtle Beach Sun News. She lives in Wilmington, North Carolina.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Davey on January 01, 2013

So I've read through a few of the one-star ratings of this book. If you don't like Southern humor, don't like the word "y'all," aren't fond of the nicknames and niceties so common in the South, and hate grits, you probably won't like this book. At all. But for the rest of y'all, read on! Her comment......more

Goodreads review by Anne on September 03, 2011

I've got mixed feeling about this book. It didn't make me laugh out loud, but there were quite a few things that I thought were funny. I don't know if you have to be Southern to get her humor, but I'm sure it wouldn't hurt. I did think she played up the Hick-Factor a bit too much, and I found it a l......more

Goodreads review by Carla on April 25, 2012

[URL not allowed] You know those goofy ice breaker questions people ask at corporate events? Things like “If you were stranded on an island, what three items would you want with you?” and “If you could be any ice cream flavor, what would you be?” My favorite though, is always,......more

Goodreads review by Sarah on July 10, 2012

Hilarious! I'm loaning this to my mom, a born and bred southern woman who will appreciate little gems that complete entire chapters, such as: "Things a Man Never Says to His Southern Wife" (or something along those lines. Answer: "Honey, I cleaned the cast iron skillet. Man that thing was dirty--lik......more


Quotes

“Rivenbark's latest outing is a fantastic book that will keep you laughing at the minutiae of the world outside while giving you time to reflect on your own life.” —Book Reporter

“...one of those books that makes you laugh out loud and possibly even snort soda through your nose!” —Booking Mama