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GIVEAWAY & REVIEW: You Don’t Sweat Much for a Fat Girl by Celia Rivenbark

August 16, 2011 By Mary

Description (from Goodreads)

From the bestselling, award-winning author of You Can’t Drink All Day If You Don’t Start In The Morning, comes another collection of hilarious observations that will resonate with women, mothers, and girlfriends everywhere

In her newest wickedly irreverent humor collection, Celia Rivenbark cracks up while getting her downward facing dog on, pines for a world in which every mom gets to behave like Betty Draper and wonders why everybody’s so excited about the Science Fair when there aren’t even any rides. In it you’ll find essays on such topics as:

-Menopause Spurs Thoughts of Death and Turkey
-I Dreamed a Dream That My Lashes Were Long
-Twitter Woes: I’ve Got Plenty of Characters, Just No Character
-Movie To-Do List: Cook Like Julia, Adopt Really Big Kid
-Charlie Bit Your Finger? Good! And other thoughts on the virus that is YouTube

And much more! For any woman who longs for the good old days when Jane Fonda in legwarmers was the only one who saw you exercise, YOU DON’T SWEAT MUCH FOR A FAT GIRL is comfort food in book form.

About the Author (from Goodreads)

Celia Rivenbark was born and raised in Duplin County, NC, which had the distinction of being the nation’s number 1 producer of hogs and turkeys during a brief, magical moment in the early 1980s.
Celia grew up in a small house in the country with a red barn out back that was populated by a couple of dozen lanky and unvaccinated cats. Her grandparents’ house, just across the ditch, had the first indoor plumbing in Teachey, NC and family lore swears that people came from miles around just to watch the toilet flush.
Despite this proud plumbing tradition, Celia grew up without a washer and dryer. On every Sunday afternoon of her childhood, while her mama rested up from preparing a fried chicken and sweet potato casserole lunch, she, her sister and her daddy rode to the laundromat two miles away to do the weekly wash.
It was at this laundromat, where a carefully lettered sign reminded customers that management was “NOT RESONSIBLE” for lost items, that Celia shirked “resonsibility” her own self and snuck away to read the big, fat Sunday News & Observer out of Raleigh, NC. By age 7, she’d decided to be a newspaper reporter.
Late nights, she’d listen to the feed trucks rattle by on the highway and she’d go to sleep wondering what exotic cities those noisy trucks would be in by morning (Richmond? Atlanta? Charlotte?) Their headlights crawling across the walls of her little pink bedroom at the edge of a soybean field were like constellations pointing the way to a bigger life, a better place, a place where there wasn’t so much turkey shit everywhere.
After a couple of years of college, Celia went to work for her hometown paper, the Wallace, NC Enterprise. The locals loved to say, as they renewed their “perscriptions,” that “you can eat a pot of rice and read the Enterprise and go to bed with nothing on your stomach and nothing on your mind.”
Mebbe. But Celia loved the Enterprise. Where else could you cover a dead body being hauled out of the river (alcohol was once again a contributing factor) in the morning and then write up weddings in the afternoon?
After eight years, however, taking front-page photos of the publisher shaking hands with other fez-wearing Shriners and tomatoes shaped like male “ginny-talia” was losing its appeal.
Celia went to work for the Wilmington, NC Morning Star after a savvy features editor was charmed by a lead paragraph in an Enterprise story about the rare birth of a mule: “Her mother was a nag and her father was a jackass.”
The Morning Star was no News and Observer but it came out every day and Celia got to write weddings for 55,000 readers instead of 3,500, plus she got a paycheck every two weeks with that nifty New York Times logo on it.
After an unfortunate stint as a copy editor – her ass expanded to a good six ax handles across – Celia started writing a weekly humor column that fulfilled her lifelong dream of being paid to be a smart ass. Along the way, she won a bunch of press awards, including a national health journalism award – hilarious when you consider she’s never met a steamed vegetable she could keep down.
Having met and married a cute guy in sports, Celia found herself happily knocked up at age 40 and, after 21 years, she quit newspapering to stay home with her new baby girl.
After a year or so, she started using Sophie’s two-hour naps to write a humor column from the mommie front lines for the Sun News in Myrtle Beach, S.C. The column continues to run weekly and is syndicated by the McClatchy-Tribune News Services.
In 2000, Coastal Carolina Press published a collection of Celia’s columns. A Southeast Book Sellers Association best-seller, Bless Your Heart, Tramp was nominated for the James Thurber Prize in 2001. David Sedaris won. He wins everything.

Details

  • Paperback: 256 pages
  • Publisher: St. Martin’s Griffin; Original edition (August 16, 2011)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0312614209
  • ISBN-13: 978-0312614201

SOURCE:  PUBLISHER

MY THOUGHTS
ABSOLUTELY LOVED IT

I love Celia Rivenbark’s writing even though I don’t live in the South, it is fun to travel there through her books.  She covers such topics as Twitter and her take on menopause is worth the price of the book alone.  My favorite term of hers is for her husband, who she lovingly calls “duh-hubby” — you can infer what you like from that reference.  I admit I troll the internet looking for her essays while I wait for another one of her books to be released.  I think my favorite one is where she pretends to be a trailer trash version of Midge who writes a Happy Birthday letter to Barbie on her 50th!  There is almost a snark overload with this one.  If you enjoy Dave Barry, you will more than likely enjoy this as well!

WANT TO WIN A COPY OF THIS BOOK? 

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Contest ends on 9.1.11 Winner will be chosen by Random.org on 9.2.11
Winner will have 48 hours to respond to email or a new winner will be chosen.
This giveaway is sponsored by ME and ONE ARC copy is available.

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Comments

  1. Cristina says

    August 16, 2011 at 10:20 pm

    I just won this on GR so I am thrilled to read your review of it! Good luck to everyone who is entering.

  2. holdenj says

    August 16, 2011 at 11:05 pm

    Looks like a hoot! Don’t know why so many daily things sound more funny when they’re in the South!
    Thanks!
    JHolden955(at)gmail(dot)com

  3. marybelle says

    August 16, 2011 at 11:08 pm

    Celia Rivenbark is new to me. I love finding new authors.

    marypres(AT)gmail(DOT)com

  4. pmernick says

    August 17, 2011 at 12:11 am

    I have read all of her books and love them! I’m looking forward to reading this one.
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    August 17, 2011 at 12:13 am

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  6. IandSsmom says

    August 17, 2011 at 12:18 am

    I love Celia Rivenbark!! Her books are just too funny!!!
    Shannon Johnson

  7. jedisakora @ The Little Corner of the World says

    August 17, 2011 at 12:33 am

    Awesome. I’ve been wanting to read this one since i saw it on goodreads.

    Melissa

  8. Bethie says

    August 17, 2011 at 1:24 am

    Thanks for the giveaway. This looks so funny.

  9. Darlene says

    August 17, 2011 at 2:03 am

    This looks like a fun book! Thanks for the giveaway!

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  10. Darlene says

    August 17, 2011 at 2:05 am

    +1 for tweeting:

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  11. Patricia says

    August 17, 2011 at 2:33 am

    Another new author that you’ve introduced me to, Mary.
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  12. Patricia says

    August 17, 2011 at 2:50 am

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  13. holdenj says

    August 17, 2011 at 11:38 am

    Daily entry 8/17. Thanks!
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  14. pmernick says

    August 17, 2011 at 8:40 pm

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  16. Jessica (Peace Love Books) says

    August 17, 2011 at 11:01 pm

    Thanks for the giveaway!!

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  17. Patricia says

    August 18, 2011 at 12:56 am

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  19. Bethie says

    August 18, 2011 at 1:20 am

    Daily Entry 8/17

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  20. holdenj says

    August 18, 2011 at 11:39 am

    Daily entry 8/18. Thanks!
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  21. pmernick says

    August 18, 2011 at 1:48 pm

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  22. pmernick says

    August 18, 2011 at 1:51 pm

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  23. Patricia says

    August 19, 2011 at 12:45 am

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  24. Patricia says

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  25. shana says

    August 19, 2011 at 2:37 am

    Loved your review. Makes me want to read this book! Thanks

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  26. holdenj says

    August 19, 2011 at 3:21 pm

    Daily entry 8/19. Thanks!
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  27. pmernick says

    August 19, 2011 at 4:01 pm

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  29. Mary says

    August 19, 2011 at 6:46 pm

    Thanks for the giveaway!

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    @sweepingme

  30. mamabunny13 says

    August 20, 2011 at 2:08 am

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  33. holdenj says

    August 20, 2011 at 11:25 am

    Daily entry 8/20. Thanks!
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  34. Patricia says

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  35. pmernick says

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  36. pmernick says

    August 20, 2011 at 8:02 pm

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  37. Patricia says

    August 21, 2011 at 12:44 am

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  38. holdenj says

    August 21, 2011 at 11:07 am

    Daily entry 8/21. Thanks!
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  39. pmernick says

    August 21, 2011 at 7:04 pm

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  40. pmernick says

    August 21, 2011 at 7:07 pm

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    August 21, 2011 at 11:35 pm

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  43. Bethie says

    August 22, 2011 at 2:05 am

    Daily entry 8-21

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  44. holdenj says

    August 22, 2011 at 11:50 am

    Daily entry 8/22. Thanks!
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  45. pmernick says

    August 22, 2011 at 7:15 pm

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  46. pmernick says

    August 22, 2011 at 7:16 pm

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  47. Patricia says

    August 23, 2011 at 1:54 am

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  48. Patricia says

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  49. Bethie says

    August 23, 2011 at 1:54 am

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  50. holdenj says

    August 23, 2011 at 11:17 am

    Daily entry 8/23. Thanks!
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  51. mamabunny13 says

    August 23, 2011 at 1:49 pm

    Daily Entry 8/23
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  53. pmernick says

    August 23, 2011 at 6:05 pm

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  56. holdenj says

    August 24, 2011 at 11:14 am

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  57. pmernick says

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  58. pmernick says

    August 24, 2011 at 6:27 pm

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  59. Patricia says

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  61. holdenj says

    August 25, 2011 at 11:26 am

    Just picked up You Can’t Drink All Day…. at the library. Fun!
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  62. pmernick says

    August 25, 2011 at 7:11 pm

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  63. pmernick says

    August 25, 2011 at 7:13 pm

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  64. Bethie says

    August 26, 2011 at 3:53 am

    Daily entry 8/25

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  65. holdenj says

    August 26, 2011 at 1:51 pm

    Daily entry 8/26. Thanks!
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  66. pmernick says

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  67. pmernick says

    August 26, 2011 at 8:36 pm

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  68. Patricia says

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  70. holdenj says

    August 27, 2011 at 12:40 pm

    Daily entry 8/27. Thanks!
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  71. Jessica (Peace Love Books) says

    August 27, 2011 at 2:16 pm

    Thanks so much for this giveaway!!

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  73. pmernick says

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  74. Patricia says

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  75. Patricia says

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  76. holdenj says

    August 28, 2011 at 3:21 pm

    Daily entry 8/28. Thanks!
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  77. Patricia says

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  78. Patricia says

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  79. holdenj says

    August 29, 2011 at 11:36 am

    Daily entry 8/29. Thanks!
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  80. IandSsmom says

    August 29, 2011 at 1:14 pm

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  81. holdenj says

    August 30, 2011 at 12:04 pm

    Daily entry 8/30. Thanks!
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  82. pmernick says

    August 31, 2011 at 3:05 am

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  83. pmernick says

    August 31, 2011 at 3:06 am

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  84. holdenj says

    August 31, 2011 at 11:00 am

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  85. IandSsmom says

    August 31, 2011 at 12:47 pm

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  86. pmernick says

    August 31, 2011 at 1:34 pm

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  88. holdenj says

    September 1, 2011 at 11:52 am

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  89. Nancye says

    September 1, 2011 at 8:13 pm

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  90. Bethie says

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  91. Patricia says

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  93. Mary (BookHounds) says

    September 4, 2011 at 8:46 pm

    SHANNON – shannonjean

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