From Publishers Weekly
Browne's fourth training manual for belles gone bad is a Southern-fried delight. It's ostensibly a guide to men, but it doesn't take long for the book's focus to return to the care, feeding, maintenance and revenge secrets of the SPQs. Men (or "spuds") are classified in categories including the platonic "Bud Spud," the beautiful-but-dense "Scud Spud," the shouldn't-wear-bikinis "Pud Spud" and the elusive "Spud Spud" (aka "Mr. Right" or "The One"). Browne is at her laugh-till-it-hurts best detailing her adventures having an eye- and facelift ("I have pretty much adopted plastic surgery as my hobby"), bowling ("There are few things in life... with a cringe-and-gag factor to rival that of putting rented shoes on one's own personal feet") and losing weight (temporarily) with acupuncture ("We would—and have—done
anything to lose weight, except, of course, the obvious one: changing our eating habits"). As usual, there are also mouth-watering recipes for those with steel arteries. One bacon, cheese and cracker concoction advises a cooling off period "for maximum reabsorption of any grease that may have inadvertently escaped during baking." This is a high-caloric treat.
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From AudioFile
The constantly heartbroken "girls" of "Sex and the City" would benefit from listening to the Sweet Potato Queens' advice on sex in a Southern city. The author, and Sweet Potato Queen leader, Jill Conner Browne, purrs in a sultry, throaty voice the wildly hilarious do's and don't's of the pursuit of love, marriage, and great sex. Here are the wise, witty, sometimes crude, revelations on relationship regimes, such as "why he didn't call," "the crazy things we do for romance," and "sweet revenge." Spuds (men) are categorized from the shouldn't-wear-bikinis "Pud Spud" to Mr. Right, the "Spud Stud." Reading this manual is a laugh-till-you-ache experience, but having Jill Conner Browne personally relate intimate stories of dating misadventures and the delicious alternative to sex--food--is like having a best friend tell all during a sleep-over. M.T.B. © AudioFile 2005, Portland, Maine--
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