Confessions of a Failed Southern Lady

by Florence King | Nonfiction |
ISBN: 0312050631 Global Overview for this book
Registered by anna1000 on 2/8/2004
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Journal Entry 1 by anna1000 on Sunday, February 8, 2004
This is from an amazon.com review:

Florence King's "Confessions of a Failed Southern Lady" is one of those rare books of humor that is utterly topical but will not grow old. In other words, a classic. We follow young Florence through her upbringing in the racially segregated Washington, D.C. of the forties and fifties (where her grandmother came to "stay a while" and remained for 30 years), through college, graduate school and on into adult life. Southern gals have their standards, but as King inimitably reminds us, she may have wound up in bed with a member of the same sex but she never smoked on the street.

I still get a chuckle when I think about how Florence nearly ignited a race riot when the threw the Schmoo out of the window--about her brother "Gottapot"--about Jensy the maid--and about her mother's low opinion of "John Quincy S**tass."

This book is heartily recommended for anyone who likes to laugh and enjoys a book with both warm humor and tangy surprise. And if you happen to have a Southern belle hanging around the house, it's required reading!


Journal Entry 2 by anna1000 on Tuesday, June 7, 2005
sent the book on June 9, 2005 to l-r-o in Canada by mail

Journal Entry 3 by l-r-o from Fort Erie, Ontario Canada on Thursday, June 16, 2005
thanks anna1000, recieved it this morning and started reading it first thing - already feels like a favourite

intro quote:
"Like most exceptional women, Rosa was not entierly feminine." - Daphne Fielding

Journal Entry 4 by l-r-o from Fort Erie, Ontario Canada on Saturday, June 18, 2005
"Here we come to one of those but-for-nail situations tht make people sit up all night arguing about Fate." ... as her Bres quotes Kant - "Never complain, never explain."

Great book.

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