The Sweet Potato Queens' First Big-Ass Novel: Stuff We Didn't Actually Do, But Could Have, and May Yet

by Karin Gillespie and Jill Conner Browne

Book Overview

"I have no pride. I tell anything," Jill Conner Browne is fond of saying. As Her Royal Highness, Boss Queen of the Sweet Potato Queens(R), she has told legions of fans, known as "SPQ Wannabes," her delectable secrets to living, loving -- and eating -- like a queen. In her words, "More is more."

How much more? The #1 New York Times bestselling author of five works of nonfiction now serves up The Sweet Potato Queens' First Big-Ass...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0743278348
• ISBN13: 9780743278348
• Release Date: April 2008
• Publisher: Simon & Schuster
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.5" x 8.4"

Customer Reviews

Sweeter than sweet

This book will get you from the first page. It is funny and emotional. You won't want to stop listening once you start. The friendship the queens have is one that everone wishes to have with their friends. The receipes shared at the end are a culinary delight. I tried a few of them and they were deliscious. I'm looking forward to getting another book about their adventures.

Delightful Fun

I loved listening to the audio version of this book. It kept me company on a long drive and the time just passed so quickly as I lived vicariously through their adventures. I admired so much their long lived friendship and loyalty and found myself just knowing that this is something I and my four friends would just love together. I'm amazed it hasn't been made into a movie. And, the recipes!!! I have made two of them and they are sooooo good! I hope the "Rest in Peace" does get launched!

YES!

I started my childhood in the Deep South (Marietta) and this brought back so many memories! I loved it. In addition to being just plain funny, this book has the ingredients of all our lives. I loved watching the Queens deal with everything that came their way and stick together through it all. I highly recommend this book, you can't help but enjoy it, even if you are a Yankee! :-)

Bow to the Sweet Potato Queens!

I am a big fan of the Sweet Potato Queens! I have the cat-eye bejeweled sunglasses and the tiara, so can honestly say this wannabee is slated for greatness - reading this book will make you feel the same way! For those of you who have never heard of the SPQs, this book will shed some light on them - the book is fiction, but the bond that the girls (and guy) form is explained. This delightful book shows the origins of the friendship, and the many adventures the SPQs had - good and bad, and the friendships that made them cope with it and laugh with it. If you want to read a book to laugh and forget about everything that's going on, this book is for you - It even has recipes in the back that are written with the SPQ humor - Who knows? Maybe I will go down to Jackson MS one year in my own queenly regalia and join the fun of the St. Paddy's Day parade... You might have fun too - or reread this book to put you there without traveling!

She's Done it Again!!

Jill Conner Browne has done it again--she's written another hilarious and highly original laugh-out-loud book about the Sweet Potato Queens! I've enjoyed all her other books and this one gave me more of what I love--just in a fictional format (the Boss Queen is brilliant!). My only problem is that I am not allowed to read her books around other people because I can't control my huge outbursts of laughter and squeals of delight! But when you're engrossed in one of Jill's books who needs anyone else around any how? I'm going to buy a copy of this book for all my friends who have enjoyed her books in the past!