Official Review: Confessions of the Sausage Queen
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Official Review: Confessions of the Sausage Queen
[Following is the official OnlineBookClub.org review of "Confessions of the Sausage Queen" by Ute Carbone.]
3 out of 4 stars
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I thought Confessions of the Sausage Queen was lighthearted and humorous, like a friend telling you a series of funny stories as you sit on the deck drinking margaritas and eating milano cookies.
Our heroine, Mandy, inherited a sausage factory from her grandmother’s “lover”. Everyone in the town of 4,000 knew about the affair between sausage owner Big Bill and Gran, but no one saw that the local bookmobile driver, not related to Big Bill, would become the new CEO of the company. Big Bill’s wife, a snooty rich woman from the East Coast and one of their sons are more than a little mad.
Author Ute Carbone takes us through Mandy’s journey of keeping the sausage factory going while dealing with the crazy cast of characters that are Mandy’s family- Mandy moves in with Gran because she refuses to live in her husband Randy's Airstream (and Mandy and Randy's last name is Handy), and her sister Mindy moves in after she gets in a fight with her husband, one of the local cops. So with most of the family under the same roof, Mandy and her crew are like the Adventures of Scooby Doo with Gran as the crazy conductor (plus sexual innuendos related to sausage). Carbone introduces us to a wide range of characters in a town of 4,000 people, and we hear about the bingo tournaments, local drag queens, the significance of Mandy and the garden hat, and why Gran walks around in her red stilettos.
Carbone uses great phrases, like when Mandy went to a funeral she “felt like a white mouse in a room full of boa constrictors.” When someone is “giving the eyes” or looking at someone sexily, Carbone calls it “sending him a banana cream pie” and in return, he could be giving her a “chocolate eclair.” Her sister Mindy “snores like a chainsaw in overdrive” and anyone at any point could be giving or getting the “hairy eyeball” (which in my family is called The Look).
Confessions of the Sausage Queen is fun, liberating, and out there. The combination of rednecks and high-class snoots reminds me of characters out of a John Waters film like Pecker (and he should seriously consider reading the book and making the movie).
I rate this book 3 out of 4 stars because it reminds me to not take life so seriously and enjoy the ride with a sense of humor. I think anyone who enjoys comedy and chick lit will like this book.
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3 out of 4 stars
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I thought Confessions of the Sausage Queen was lighthearted and humorous, like a friend telling you a series of funny stories as you sit on the deck drinking margaritas and eating milano cookies.
Our heroine, Mandy, inherited a sausage factory from her grandmother’s “lover”. Everyone in the town of 4,000 knew about the affair between sausage owner Big Bill and Gran, but no one saw that the local bookmobile driver, not related to Big Bill, would become the new CEO of the company. Big Bill’s wife, a snooty rich woman from the East Coast and one of their sons are more than a little mad.
Author Ute Carbone takes us through Mandy’s journey of keeping the sausage factory going while dealing with the crazy cast of characters that are Mandy’s family- Mandy moves in with Gran because she refuses to live in her husband Randy's Airstream (and Mandy and Randy's last name is Handy), and her sister Mindy moves in after she gets in a fight with her husband, one of the local cops. So with most of the family under the same roof, Mandy and her crew are like the Adventures of Scooby Doo with Gran as the crazy conductor (plus sexual innuendos related to sausage). Carbone introduces us to a wide range of characters in a town of 4,000 people, and we hear about the bingo tournaments, local drag queens, the significance of Mandy and the garden hat, and why Gran walks around in her red stilettos.
Carbone uses great phrases, like when Mandy went to a funeral she “felt like a white mouse in a room full of boa constrictors.” When someone is “giving the eyes” or looking at someone sexily, Carbone calls it “sending him a banana cream pie” and in return, he could be giving her a “chocolate eclair.” Her sister Mindy “snores like a chainsaw in overdrive” and anyone at any point could be giving or getting the “hairy eyeball” (which in my family is called The Look).
Confessions of the Sausage Queen is fun, liberating, and out there. The combination of rednecks and high-class snoots reminds me of characters out of a John Waters film like Pecker (and he should seriously consider reading the book and making the movie).
I rate this book 3 out of 4 stars because it reminds me to not take life so seriously and enjoy the ride with a sense of humor. I think anyone who enjoys comedy and chick lit will like this book.
******
Confessions of the Sausage Queen
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