Sophie Hudson speaks my language:
Southern, Story and Sass.
Mounds and mountains of all three.
And she understands and rightly uses ALL CAPS (and parenthetical asides) EXACTLY and APPROPRIATELY when necessary to maximize effect. That's an art.
Perhaps better known online as BooMama, she celebrated the debut of her first book yesterday, A Little Salty to Cut the Sweet: Southern Stories of Faith, Family, and Fifteen Pounds of Bacon
BACON, y'all–What a BRILLIANT addition to any book title!
If I wasn't on the road (and if I was a better writer-aheader), I would have published this yesterday. Or the day before. Except you couldn't buy it the day before so maybe today IS better.
If you follow BooMama's blog, you've likely already met the cast of characters; but if not, she takes time to introduce you to each and if you need a chart, there's a nifty family tree in the front of the book to keep track. Let's just say I happened to refer back to it a few times BECAUSE I HAVE A NEED TO KNOW who everyone is and how they interrelate.
"A Little Salty…" is nothin' if not a tribute to family and how they shape a person.
At times poignant and other moments pure-T laugh out loud, you'll find 186 pages of family, faith and fun, a literary cup overflowing with cheer. Sophie is a gentle storyteller, having learned from the best: her family. Her faith is natural, never preachy.
I've followed BooMama about as long as I've been blogging, pleased to have spent a little time with her. I've learned from her, laughed with her, been inspired by her…and genuinely love her. It is my pleasure to celebrate this milestone with her in some small way by sharing her book with you.
Would you like to win a copy? Share a link to this post on Twitter or Facebook OR Pin it on Pinterest, come back here and comment how you shared it, and please tell me your favorite thing about the South!!
(p.s. Comments written in Haiku may or may not have an edge….)
This is my little love gift to you,
and a thank you to Sophie & her publisher, Tyndale, for gifting a copy to me.
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Deadline to enter is Friday, June 7th @ midnight EST, U.S. addresses only.
And if you're ready to pony up the less-than-the-cost-of-a-movie-and-popcorn to buy the book, here's my Amazon affiliate link for under $12!. Good, clean fun and endearingly entertaining, it's the best buy of the summer if you ask me. 🙂
If I haven't convinced you to add this to your summer reads, maybe Sophie's own voice will…. Enjoy!
Congrats to #26, Lib!!
I’ve shared on Twitter.
What do I love about the South?
I love the hospitatlity- the “I’m in the neighborhood and want to stop by” phone calls. The light tap at the back door, followed by the door shutting and a holler of “Knock! Knock!”
Shared on Twitter. For this Aussie gal, I love the Southern accent!
I’m sharing on twitter! LOVE what I am hearing about this book–and the south? I love the word “ya’ll” 🙂
Tweeted on Twitter;
Favorite thing about the South?
“Bless her heart” insults!
(This was hard to haiku, but I did it!)
I tweeted here: https://twitter.com/iamjustonegirl/status/342349942347673601
And I love that everyone is genuinely kind and nice. Culture shock for this girl. 🙂
Southern love haiku:
Hospitality
Swings on the porch, birds in flight
Long days, lovely nights
Retweeted! And super excited about this book! Thanks for the opportunity to win!! 🙂
Sharing on facebook!
I’m not looking to win the book or anything but my favorite thing about the South is SWEET TEA!!! 😀
I shared on Twitter
I love most about the South:
Good and cold sweet tea!
https://twitter.com/MochawithLinda/status/342378980168589312
Shared! 🙂 The thing I love about the south- my sister is there! 🙂
tweeted it…#WhatILoveAboutTheSouth Eating COLD watermelon on a HOT 4thJuly
🙂
I shared on Facebook.
What I love about the South (as observed by a lifelong Yankee): the sense of deep roots and family.
Sounds like a great book!
I tweeted~
I shared on FB!
I pinned!
Shared in a retweet! I love south Louisiana fishing.
Shared on twitter. Sweet tea!
Hey Robin!
I’ve shared on Twitter. What I love about the South….well, there are so many characteristics I love, but I’ll limit it to three– Heat, Hospitality, and Shrimp & Grits!!
I Pinned it here: http://pinterest.com/pin/29625310021762618/
My favorite thing about the South is the lack of snow. Seriously. 🙂
I tweeted about it being a light, fun summer read!!!!
Shared on FB. Some things I love about the south; sitting on a wide front porch of an evening listening to a whippoorwill call, the scent of honeysuckle wafting on the breeze, drinking a glass of sweet tea and looking forward to grits for breakfast!
I pinned it! I love the word y’all AND that “coke” refers to any kind of carbonated beverage. “What kind of coke do y’all want?”
Shared on Pinterest 🙂 What I love about the south? Sweet tea, front porches, charm, hospitality, and “y’all” – what a fun giveaway!
I shared on FB!
and I love that people understand that bacon grease should be saved for multiple and varied uses!!
I re-tweeted…on Twitter {of all places.}
I love the friendliness of the south. Even in criticism {“Bless your heart”} you still feel loved.
cotton and manners
graciousness flows from our hearts
Dixie, my sweet home!
You asked for haiku, I give you {bad} haiku 🙂
What do I love about the South, you ask? I love my Sweet Home Alabama, where we Dare Defend Our Rights, drink sweet tea, say yes m’am and no sir, grow cotton, make space flight hardware, play a little bit of football, love our Momma’n them, swat skeeters, have a church on every corner,pray in school as well as at sporting events and graduations, we have mountains and beaches and lots of in-between, courthouse squares, big cities and little towns.
I love the way we work hard and play harder. I love wisteria growing over a porch and camillas in the fall. Magnolias, gardenias and bougainvilleas. I love the slow, easy drawl of the south, especially when the words come from my Georgia born husband accompanied by a wink!
I say all that, having lived in many places and each had their own charm. But give me the South any day! I’m thankful to be a Southern gal whose Momma taught to stand a salute when she heard the strains of ‘Dixie’!
I’ve tweeted and shared on facebook. I would Pin it, but I just can’t go there at work, I wouldn’t get anything done!
What do I love about the South? Finding common ground with a complete stranger about BBQ, your hometown, crazy relatives, sweet tea, SEC football, or a passel of other things southern. I love this place – there is no other like it in the world!
I’ve shared on facebook and Pinned it.
So what do I love about the South? I love the ease and comfort of back porch sittin’ and lighting bugs in a jar, the smell of the magnolias in my mother-in-laws yard long gone, and the drawl.
There’s just soooo much I love about the South. But I think I enjoy that sweet Southern accent that just flows slowly out of the mouth… I’m a Northerner, but have been asked more than once where I was from, because I ‘sound’ like I am from the South…awwww
I love many, many things about the South…but my favorite is to hear that Southern drawl accent. Y’all are really somethin’. I’m a Northern gal, didn’t have any say in where I was born…but I could listen to that Southern accent all day long…with a smile on my lips…
I tweeted!
And what I love about the south? Sweet Tea, catfish, cornbread dressing, lightning bugs, honeysuckle, “yes, ma’am.” 🙂
Shared on Twitter!
I tweeted the post!
I tweeted! And here’s my haiku of an actual conversation I overheard yesterday.
“Would you like to have a drink?”
“I’d like a Coke, please.”
“What kind?” “A Diet Pepsi.”
(I’ve had similar conversations – what kind of coke do you want?, but this one struck me as extra funny because of the whole Coke vs. Pepsi debate)
I will pin this giveaway as soon as I leave this page. I didn’t know there was a National iced tea day! I have a DD a mile down the road and I rarely go there because I don’t drink coffee and I try to stay away from donuts. But I may just pop in there today!
I shared it on FB.
shared on Pinterest!
I love lightening bugs…. and miss them terribly out here in the west 🙁 Growing up I remember catching them and morbidly wiping the “glow” part on our bodies so that we would glow too! 🙂
oh my goodness! that one took me back… why is everything a coke? too FUNNY! Thanks for giving me a small taste of my old Kentucky home (that I’ve been gone from for 30 years):)
I shared this on facebook. I don’t care for the deep south–too hot & muggy for my taste. Give me the laid back mid south of Eastern Tennessee with mountains.
I would also love the west NM or AZ–desert!
Tweeted.
Oh my word. Reading Melanie AND Sophie’s books in the same month? Heaven on earth.
Retweeted on Twitter! Goodness gracious, what do I love about the South? The question is what do I NOT love about the South? I love people who say y’all, wave when you let them ahead of you in a car line, toes in the sand, SEC football, corn dogs, etc. Can’t wait to read her book. Hope I win. Thanks for doing a fun giveaway!
Pinned it. The South is just home to me, and I love that.
Shared on Twitter. The south confuses me a little because I think I am too brash to hang and I strongly dislike sweet tea. But my favorite thing about the south is that it has brought me some AMAZING blogging friends. Most importantly you 🙂