APRIL 14th TO MAY 8th, 2011
SYNOPSIS:
While Olivia deBelle Byrd was repeating one of her many Southern stories for the umpteenth time, her long-suffering husband looked at her with glazed over eyes and said, “Why don’t you write this stuff down?” Thus was born Miss Hildreth Wore Brown—Anecdotes of a Southern Belle. If the genesis for a book is to shut your wife up, I guess that’s as good as any.
On top of that, Olivia’s mother had burdened her with one of those Southern middle names kids love to make fun. To see “deBelle” printed on the front of a book seemed vindication for all the childhood teasing.
With storytelling written in the finest Southern tradition from the soap operas of Chandler Street in the quaint town of Gainesville, Georgia, to a country store on the Alabama state line, Olivia deBelle Byrd delves with wit and amusement into the world of the Deep South with all its unique idiosyncrasies and colloquialisms.
The characters who dance across the pages range from Great-Aunt Lottie Mae, who is as “old-fashioned and opinionated as the day is long,” to Mrs. Brewton, who calls everyone “dahling” whether they are darling or not, to Isabella with her penchant for mint juleps and drama.
Humorous anecdotes from a Christmas coffee, where one can converse with a lady who has Christmas trees with blinking lights dangling from her ears, to Sunday church, where a mink coat is mistaken for possum, will delight Southerners and baffle many a non-Southerner. There is the proverbial Southern beauty pageant, where even a six-month-old can win a tiara, to a funeral faux pas of the iron clad Southern rule—one never wears white after Labor Day and, dear gussy, most certainly not to a funeral.
Miss Hildreth Wore Brown—Anecdotes of a Southern Belle is guaranteed to provide an afternoon of laugh-out-loud reading and hilarious enjoyment.
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Sad to say I don't know a true southern belle. But a lot of people when meeting me for the first time think I have a southern accent. I call it a twang, picked up from the area where I grew up.
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My mother-in-law is a southern belle, born and raised in Virginia. riverboat38(at)hotmail(dot)com
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My father's second wife was a true southern belle.
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Yay! Your blog is all better 🙂
I am afraid I do not personally know any Southern Belles,but, I do love to read about them in Southern fiction.
Favourites being Saving CeeCee, Miss Julia and
The Help.
I have this one on my wishlist.
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I live in Texas now so I think I am bound to meet a true southern belle soon. I love that the author is a storyteller, that is a wonderful tradition.
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I follow you with Twitter. My Twitter name is Carolee888. Now that sounds southern, doesn't it?
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I have to admit I don't really familiar with Southern Belle, but off to google about it now!
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thanks so much Cheryl!
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Please add me to the contest. This books sounds great.
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