Bless Your Heart, Tramp: And Other Southern Endearments Book

This is a collection of humorous essays that were originally published in a South Carolina newspaper. Brooke and I read them in the car as we were driving cross-country, and we really enjoyed them. They are light and fun, but I didn't think every single one was a jem. A fair number from the "at home" too much "Men are like this, and Women are like this" humor for my taste, and in general I can't say that the humor seemed natural or effortless. They were definitely moments in almost every essay where I smiled or chucked or even laughed aloud because I thought things were genuinely funny, but then there were also moments where I felt compelled to laugh because it was so obvious that the author was TRYING (really hard) to be funny. There were also lots of references that might have been really funny if they hadn't totally gone over my head. Maybe you have to actually be from the south to appreciate these essays fully.
This book was fun to read, though, and I liked it at least as much as the other collection I read by Rivenbark, We're Just Like You, Only Prettier. I'd recommend her writing for anybody who is looking for a little light, southern humor. My favorite parts were when she wrote the redneck accent phonetically, like writing the word "har" for "hair." Tee-hee.