Review: Wry Wit and Humor Served Southern Style
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 09 26, 2013
If you were a fan of the late Erma Bombeck, you will want to read this book. If you never had the privilege of reading Bombeck, you will want to get this book to see what you missed.Linda Walker blends the same wry wit and slightly barbed humor, edged with a Louisiana-Southern accent, punctuated by spot-on-accurate observation of human nature in a series of stories/essays that will run you through the gamut of emotions -But in the end, they will nearly always leave you smiling if not outright rolling on the floor in laughter.Walker has that rare gift of being able to reach into any situation, no matter how outrageous - even fleeing from tornadoes in Oklahoma City - and finding that spark of the absurd that we call "humor."This is the woman I want to have sitting beside me when I'm stranded in an airport - and yes, Walker has some tales to tell about that! She is a consummate story-teller, the genial aunt or sister sitting beside you on the porch swing, sharing her latest adventures. It's all very cozy, very intimate ...Very Southern. Including her refrain of "that's anutha' story." How often I, a product of East Texas, heard those words from Mother or one of her friends as they gossiped about the latest goings-on in the neighborhood!I hope that Walker will share some of those "anutha' stories" in a not-too-distant future book. I'm eager to read more of this lady's work!Adventures of a Southern Girl ends with a poem and a couple of beautiful essays drawn from nature, and they show yet another side of Walker: a poetic, reverential side as observant of nature as of people.She is a class act, and I highly recommend this book.