The Pulpwood Queens’ Tiara-Wearing, Book-Sharing Guide to Life
Grand Central Publishing (2008)
ISBN 9780446695428
Reviewed by for Reader Views (12/07)
If somebody were to ask me to classify Kathy L. Patrick’s “The Pulpwood Queens’ Tiara-Wearing, Book-Sharing Guide to Life,” I would be at a loss. Is it a book about books? Is it about book clubs? Is it a memoir? A cookbook? A self-help one? Well, it is all of that and much, much more.
“The Pulpwood Queens’ Tiara-Wearing, Book-Sharing Guide to Life” is first and foremost a great book and a life-size one. It encompasses all the really important things in life: life, love, friends, good food, big hair, lots of books, snazzy clothes, glitter and glimmering eyes and sparkling outfits and flashy tiaras. It talks about the life-changing events and people that forever alter our lives with seemingly minor acts. It provides a recipe for a killer Margarita (actually, a Marla-rita!) and teaches you how to found and run a book club. It stresses the importance of having girlfriends and how a great hair stylist should act. It makes you laugh out loud and if you are from the South like me, sob when re-living the hurricane Katrina and its aftermath. It teaches you how to listen and how to take care of yourself. It gives you the permission to be the best you can be and wear a tiara whenever you please. It shows that reinventing yourself is not only possible, but can also be immensely rewarding and fun. Most importantly of all, it feels like a great, big hug from your best friend.
If all of the wonderful insights, stories and advice from Kathy L. Patrick would not be enough, there are also lists and more lists of one of my favorite things in life: books! There are books for every taste and most every age. Ms. Patrick listed a few books that I’ve read, actually a few that are old, cherished friends; but also very many that I’ve never even heard about. And reading about all the fun the Pulpwood Queens have at their meetings, I am severely tempted to start a chapter myself. With an amazing Queen like Ms. Patrick, life can only get better and more fun. And while I am not sure about wearing my hair big, I can definitely envision myself in animal prints and a sparkling tiara. “The Pulpwood Queens’ Tiara-Wearing, Book-Sharing Guide to Life” is definitely on my next year’s list of books to give to my friends and I bet your friends would love it too.
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