Life is a Buffet: So Save Room for Dessert

by Polly D. Boyette

Life is a Buffet is a collection of hilarious short stories experienced by author, Polly Boyette. These funny stories remind us how to laugh at ourselves, even at our most embarrassing and humiliating times. Polly teaches us that life truly is a buffet, offering a wide variety of choices that we are faced with everyday. Choosing to add laughter to our appetite actually makes living and choosing easier along the way. Polly also pairs a scriptural...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0595367976
• ISBN13: 9780595367979
• Release Date: November 2005
• Publisher: iUniverse
• Length: 100 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Makes a Great Gift!

This book is hilarious and thought provoking all at the same time. You will laugh your way through it. If you know someone who needs cheering up, this is the book you should give them. It's like a small devotional with each funny story followed by a simple Biblical teaching. I've had friends say they are reading it to their spouse; daughters are reading it to their mothers; and nurses are reading it to their patients. Don't miss out on this book. If you like to laugh, you'll love this book and love sharing it with others. It will make you the life of the party by giving you some great stories to share.

ES in Virginia Beach

Life is a Buffet is presented in a humorous way, but real situations that we all find ourselves in sometimes. I believe that too many times we take those situations too seriously, and it puts too much stress on our lives. I laughed my way through this book, while thoroughly enjoying it, as I can identify with some of them. I recommend this book to anyone who needs to relax some and just enjoy life, and I think that can be all of us at any given point in our lives. I wish Polly the very best in all of her endeavors. I had the opportunity to meet her at a book signing, along with her sister - both are warm-spirited people.

Good sense of humor

Polly D. Boyette lives in Virginia where she was born and raised, but her mother came from North Carolina, and you can hear Polly's inherited southern accent in her writing. In Life is a Buffet So Save Room For Dessert Boyette tells some thigh-slapping funny stories about her life with her mother and sister and their three dogs. Oddly enough, all the stories seem to center around food, mainly that southern mainstay-fried chicken. There is a whole buffet filled with clever stories in this book about life's embarrassing moments, family chaos turned hilarious, general faux pas, and crazy incidents turned into cherished memories. Boyette is a storyteller that can really stretch a tale and get everyone laughing at their household antics. The author has added, like spice to a good meatloaf, a short devotional to go along with each of the twenty stories. The Scriptures she chooses for each story have an uncanny tendency to match in strange ways with whatever bizarre episode the story relates, but the spiritual lessons are good nonetheless. For example, Boyette tells of her mother frying potatoes for supper and accidentally cooking and eating the plastic lid of the deep fryer. The verse the author uses with that story is Romans 14:3 "The man who eats everything must not look down on him who does not...." Yes, out of context, but funny! I think this small book would be enjoyed by most anyone with a good sense of humor. Its stories will give the reader a good laugh and maybe help him learn to laugh at his own foibles. - Elece Hollis, Christian Book Previews.com

laugh along with her

Polly Boyette lives with her sister, Robbie Lee and recently had her mother, AC, move in with her too. Yes, AC is her mother's full name; AC are not initials, and Robbie Lee's name is actually Robin Lynn. But where they come from, folks might have names that seem like nicknames and nicknames that sound pretty normal. And this sets the stage for the stories you will read about in "Life is a Buffet, So Save Room For Dessert." This short book of short stories is sure to bring a smile to reader's faces. Here are three women living together, each with her own ideas and idiosyncrasies. Robbie Lee absolutely loves fried chicken, AC adores shopping for flowers to plant in the too small townhouse yard, and Polly has learned to laugh at it all. Each story is a glimpse into life in Virginia and some crazy times that involve Polly falling down the front steps in a foot cast in the pouring rain, Robbie Lee driving blind and getting a ticket, and AC's obsession with "daffneydils" (Daffodils). With each story Polly has chosen a quote from the Bible and includes her own interpretation of it, relating it to the tale. It is all so lightheartedly done that you'll find yourself laughing through the entire collection. This is a Christian geared book. However, if one chooses to ignore the Bible verses and lessons, readers can easily enjoy the stories alone. This likely isn't the author's intention but I feel that non-Christians will still be able to find value here. I enjoyed the read and found the writing to be enchanting. After all, if we can't laugh at ourselves, whom can we laugh at? Since Polly Boyette has put her experiences out there to be shared, we can all laugh along with her and have something to think about as well. Review by Heather Froeschl.

Enjoyable easy reading

light and comical this book was a joy to read. With great references to the bible after each short story teaching us the art of learning from our own humiliations, inbarisments and fumbles in life along with how to sometimes just laugh at yourself and the situation your in. Also showing there is a reason for everything that happens to us or in things that we do. How to see there is a positive side somewhere in it. I learned and laughed out loud while reading this book. Thanks and best wishes to the Author.