39: The Sweet Potato Queens' Book of Love
39. The Sweet Potato Queens' Book of Love: A Fallen Southern Belle's Look at Love, Life, Men, Marriage, and Being Prepared, Jill Conner Browne
38. Greywalker, Kat Richardson
37. Blockade Billy, Stephen King
36. The Pelican Brief, John Grisham*
35. The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon, David Grann
34. While My Pretty One Knits, Anne Canadeo
33. Ur, Stephen King* (audio)
32. The Firm, John Grisham*
31. Free-Range Knitter, Stephanie Pearl-McPhee*
30. Misery, Stephen King
29. Spook Country, William Gibson (audio)
28. The Lost Continent: Travels in Small-Town America, Bill Bryson
27. People are Unappealing*: True Stories of Our Collective Capacity to Irritate and Annoy *Even Me, Sara Barron
26. The Green Mile, Stephen King*
25. Bag of Bones, Stephen King*
24. The New Dead: A Zombie Anthology, ed. Christopher Golden
23. Relentless, Dean Koontz
22. Stephanie Pearl-McPhee Casts Off: The Yarn Harlot's Guide to the Land of Knitting
21. The Girl Who Played with Fire, Stieg Larsson
20. Guns, Germs, and Steel, Jared Diamond
19. The Stand, Stephen King*
18. Hollywood's Stephen King, Tony Magistrale
17. Hidden Empire, Orson Scott Card
16. Harem, Dora Levy Mossanen
15. Dies the Fire, S.M. Stirling
14. The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark, Carl Sagan
13. Knitting Rules! The Yarn Harlot Unravels the Mysteries of Swatching, Stashing, Ribbing, & Rolling to Free Your Inner Knitter, Stephanie Pearl-McPhee, aka the Yarn Harlot
12. Bold Spirit: Helga Estby's Forgotten Walk Across Victorian America, Linda Lawrence Hunt
11. Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood, Rebecca Wells
10. Patient Zero, Jonathon Maberry
9. God's Country, Percival Everett
8. Heart of Stone, C. E. Murphy
7. The Secret Life of Houdini: The Making of America's First Superhero, William Kalush and Larry Sloman
6. The Good Fairies of New York, Martin Millar
5. Limeys: The True Story of One Man's War Against Ignorance, the Establishment and the Deadly Scurvy, David I. Harvie
4. The Secret Life of Bees, Sue Monk Kidd
3. Tatham Mound, Piers Anthony
2. Alas, Babylon, Pat Frank
1. Neverwhere, Neil Gaiman
Meh. Written by a woman who, with a group of friends, proclaimed herself the Sweet Potato Queen of Jackson, Mississippi. They have a set of rules they live by (generally following the guidelines that the more men you have, the better; the more fat in your diet, the better; the more others look at you, the better. While I can totally identify with all those things, they also seem very self-absorbed. I remember a line from the First Wives' Club: "We may be witches, but witches have powers for good as well as evil. ... We've been thinking to small. We need to think bigger." (I paraphrased.) They had been getting too petty in getting revenge, so they decided to get revenge and open a women's shelter. The Sweet Potato Queens think too small, I think, and forget that queens have responsibilities beyond doing jackshit or fending off adoring men. Maybe that's why she wrote this book? To share their collective knowledge about fattening food, the 5 men a woman needs in her life (the fixer, the dancer, the sex god, the listener, and the payer), and how nice it is to have a man buy you sparkly things.
This would have been better had it been a hard-core memoir. I wanted more crazy stories interspersed in with the rules for life. She could have backed up her rules with more specific stories. Meh. I won't read another SPQ book.
38. Greywalker, Kat Richardson
37. Blockade Billy, Stephen King
36. The Pelican Brief, John Grisham*
35. The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon, David Grann
34. While My Pretty One Knits, Anne Canadeo
33. Ur, Stephen King* (audio)
32. The Firm, John Grisham*
31. Free-Range Knitter, Stephanie Pearl-McPhee*
30. Misery, Stephen King
29. Spook Country, William Gibson (audio)
28. The Lost Continent: Travels in Small-Town America, Bill Bryson
27. People are Unappealing*: True Stories of Our Collective Capacity to Irritate and Annoy *Even Me, Sara Barron
26. The Green Mile, Stephen King*
25. Bag of Bones, Stephen King*
24. The New Dead: A Zombie Anthology, ed. Christopher Golden
23. Relentless, Dean Koontz
22. Stephanie Pearl-McPhee Casts Off: The Yarn Harlot's Guide to the Land of Knitting
21. The Girl Who Played with Fire, Stieg Larsson
20. Guns, Germs, and Steel, Jared Diamond
19. The Stand, Stephen King*
18. Hollywood's Stephen King, Tony Magistrale
17. Hidden Empire, Orson Scott Card
16. Harem, Dora Levy Mossanen
15. Dies the Fire, S.M. Stirling
14. The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark, Carl Sagan
13. Knitting Rules! The Yarn Harlot Unravels the Mysteries of Swatching, Stashing, Ribbing, & Rolling to Free Your Inner Knitter, Stephanie Pearl-McPhee, aka the Yarn Harlot
12. Bold Spirit: Helga Estby's Forgotten Walk Across Victorian America, Linda Lawrence Hunt
11. Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood, Rebecca Wells
10. Patient Zero, Jonathon Maberry
9. God's Country, Percival Everett
8. Heart of Stone, C. E. Murphy
7. The Secret Life of Houdini: The Making of America's First Superhero, William Kalush and Larry Sloman
6. The Good Fairies of New York, Martin Millar
5. Limeys: The True Story of One Man's War Against Ignorance, the Establishment and the Deadly Scurvy, David I. Harvie
4. The Secret Life of Bees, Sue Monk Kidd
3. Tatham Mound, Piers Anthony
2. Alas, Babylon, Pat Frank
1. Neverwhere, Neil Gaiman
Meh. Written by a woman who, with a group of friends, proclaimed herself the Sweet Potato Queen of Jackson, Mississippi. They have a set of rules they live by (generally following the guidelines that the more men you have, the better; the more fat in your diet, the better; the more others look at you, the better. While I can totally identify with all those things, they also seem very self-absorbed. I remember a line from the First Wives' Club: "We may be witches, but witches have powers for good as well as evil. ... We've been thinking to small. We need to think bigger." (I paraphrased.) They had been getting too petty in getting revenge, so they decided to get revenge and open a women's shelter. The Sweet Potato Queens think too small, I think, and forget that queens have responsibilities beyond doing jackshit or fending off adoring men. Maybe that's why she wrote this book? To share their collective knowledge about fattening food, the 5 men a woman needs in her life (the fixer, the dancer, the sex god, the listener, and the payer), and how nice it is to have a man buy you sparkly things.
This would have been better had it been a hard-core memoir. I wanted more crazy stories interspersed in with the rules for life. She could have backed up her rules with more specific stories. Meh. I won't read another SPQ book.