The Official Guide to Christmas in the South: Or, If You Can't Fry It, Spraypaint It Gold

by David C. Barnette

Book Overview

No place celebrates Christmas like Dixie, and with this charming, humorous guide, anyone can learn how to deck the halls, Southern style

It's the one time of the year when both the divine and debutantes take center stage in a perfect storm of hot glue and cheese grits: Christmas. But successfully navigating through the holiday season can be more complex than Santa's midnight journey. There are pitfalls hotter than any chimney -- and social...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0060850531
• ISBN13: 9780060850531
• Release Date: October 2008
• Publisher: William Morrow & Company
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 1.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.3" x 7.8"

Customer Reviews

Fun book

This book is a fun read. You will laugh. I found many thing in this book so very true. Enjoy!

Makes a perfect gift!

Cute, quick read. I enjoyed finding myself on the pages. I'm a Spode Christmas Tree girl, myself. My grandmothers wouldn't have it any other way. Makes a great hostess gift! Lucy Adams, author of If Mama Don't Laugh, It Ain't Funny

In July wedding season is over and you can prepare for that Christmas card photo!

What a fabulous book! I purchased this at Christmas Jubilee in Mobile, Alabama this past season and I have treasured it! It is a fun way to look at our quirky habits and also get a little bit of insight as to why we serve our Christmas dinner on certain china patterns. Yes I own Lenox, Holiday pattern and the book says that I am likely to buy straight from the Southern Living Floor plan (check), shop on eBay (check), and like safety (check, check). I am so glad I do not own any Gail Pittman! You are going to love his calendar of how to prepare for Christmas the entire year. It is a fun read and a perfect addition to your fun and fabulous library. Indulge yourself and have a good laugh at everyone you know including you and while you are at it, get out that gold spray paint can and find yourself some magnolia leaves and pretend its Christmas again! Remember, only Mardi Gras is as tacky as Christmas!

A Southerner with a sense of humor

I loved this book! You can't imagine how many pieces of Spode's Christmas Rose I didn't intend to get. I have shared this book with several people and they all loved it. I have seen in real life growing up in the South just what David has written about.

Barnette must have been hiding in my fruitcake all these years!

Wow - Barnette manages to capture the Southern Psyche better than anyone I've ever read. Forget Faulkner and Williams - this book understands our wacky fascination with cheese grits, glue guns, multiple Christmas china patterns and gift "re-purposing" to a tee. This is a hoot - it will be under the tree for the women in my family for sure. I'll be thinking of Barnette and wondering if he's spying on my as I lug out my Lynn Chase "Winter Game Birds" for holiday dinners or my Spode "Christmas Tree" mugs for toddies by the fire....