Don't Sleep with a Bubba: Unless Your Eggs are in Wheelchairs [Paperback]

Susan Reinhardt (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: May 1, 2007

Celebrated humorist and columnist Susan Reinhardt hits another homerun with "Don't Sleep with a Bubba," the follow-up collection of wild and heartfelt stories to "Not Tonight Wait 'Til I"m a Size 6."

In "Don't Sleep with a Bubba," she runs into her usual hilarious suspects: the dog that underwent liposuction of the "private parts," the drunk that got a DWI on horseback while getting a Happy Meal on his steed at the drive-thru, and her crazy sister's antics, which include painting her grass green in the winter, selling Jesus pancakes on eBay, and her outrageous pre-school teaching practices.

While most of Reinhardt's stories are colorful and hilarious, she goes into a deeper side with this new book and reveals her horror with a date rape at a frat house when she was 17, and a nine-day stay in a psyche ward for a plunging depression.

Vivid, candid and heartfelt, her stories will both entertain and inspire.

Editorial Reviews

Review

"Hilarious and captivating, no one is more accomplished at the fine art of storytelling than Susan Reinhardt -- Ronda Rich - Bestselling author of "What Southern Women Know"

"Like hanging out with your bluntest, most mischievous friend, who never fails to crack you p." -- Chicago Sun-Times

"She's like a modern-day, southern-fried Erma Bombeck or Dave Barry." -- Booklist

"Susan Reinhardt takes the naked, honest truth and sets it on fire in a blaze of laughter that will have you holding your sides the whole time. She says what only the brave dare to think." -- Laurie Notaro - New York Times bestselling author of Idiot Girls; We Thought You'd be Prettier; and I Love Everybody: Tales from a Loudmouth Girl

"The Southern Belle's answer to David Sedaris." -- Karin Gillespie, author of Bottom Dollar series and co-author of the latest Sweet Potato Queen book

From the Publisher

Aimed at anyone with a funny bone, these all new stories by syndicated columnist Susan Reinhardt tackle domestic and office life with side-splitting observations and searing confessions.

Reinhardt candidly lets readers into her world as she faces off with the Bubbas of the world, reveals her husband's unusual experiments with a Norelco shaver and the family Pomeranian, and scrapes bare the bedrock truth about married life and love.

She also poignantly shares her struggles with a depression that secretly plunged her downward and her reaction to the unexpected helping hands that pulled her up.

Totally uncensored and blisteringly honest, Reinhardt is all heart - and a storyteller to savor and remember.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 256 pages
• Publisher: Kensington (May 1, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0758217080
• ISBN-13: 978-0758217080
• Product Dimensions: 8.1 x 5.5 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 10.4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (24 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #969,461 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

I'm a humorist and funny person. I've had plenty of hardships, such as battles with depression and hospitalizations, but my sense of humor pulls me through.
I try to write books that give people great belly laughs or tears of joy and inspiration. I love my kids, hot yoga classes, the ocean and snorkeling and being outdoors.
I also enjoy helping other writers and am on a board serving abused children.

Customer Reviews

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16 of 18 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Some Got it ... Some Don't!, May 3, 2007

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Cappy Hall Rearick (St. Simons Island, GA United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Don't Sleep with a Bubba: Unless Your Eggs are in Wheelchairs (Paperback)

It's that IT thing for which all humor writers pray ... the ability to be naturally funny, no matter what. Lucille Ball had it. Carol Burnett had it. Erma had it. Susan Reinhardt has it, bless her heart.

Her first book, Not Tonight Honey: Wait Till I'm a Size Six was silly and hilarious and at times raucous and rowdy. I giggled my way through. Thinking I was in for more of the same with her new book, Don't Sleep With a Bubba, I could hardly wait to wrap myself in some good ole down home humor, Reinhardt Style. She did not disappoint.

Here's the kicker: she also exposes a vulnerable side of herself that has been hidden within the folds of laughter for way too long. Writing openly and honestly about her Achilles' heel, she even finds bits of humor in her darkest nights. In three chapters, she takes off her clown mask and becomes human, giving depth and insight to the entire book.

Susan pokes fun at herself throughout. She still blames BIB (Bitch in a Bag), the name she gave her uterus for making her go "crazy as a shot cat." Her mother is liberally sprinkled throughout and is always a delight. Her kids and her husband dive often into the wacky world of this writer. The chapters are filled with prose that comes straight from the author's heart and funny bone. Oh, heck. I don't want to spoil it for you, so go on and buy Susan Reinhardt's terrific new book, Don't Sleep With a Bubba ...Unless Your Eggs Are in Wheelchairs. You're gonna love it, bless your heart.

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars You don't have to be Southern to love this, May 17, 2007

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Penelope T. Ruekberg - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Don't Sleep with a Bubba: Unless Your Eggs are in Wheelchairs (Paperback)

This book is extremely funny, yet the essays I liked best were those that touched on the darker side of life. It's common to cover pain with laughter, and while people may assume that humorists must be laughing all the time, Reinhardt makes it clear that they are subject to the same fears, tears and anxieties we all are.

I really related to the issues of motherhood, fear of aging and fighting your demons that Reinhardt raises. The book is by turns laugh out loud funny and frankly honest.

I was born and raised in New York, so even though I live in Dallas now, I am far from a Southern Belle. You definitely don't have to be one to know one, or to laugh with one!

8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Don't Sleep With Bubba: Unless Your Eggs are in Wheel Chairs, June 9, 2007

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Laverne H. Bardy "Syndicated Columnist" (Newton, New Jersey United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Don't Sleep with a Bubba: Unless Your Eggs are in Wheelchairs (Paperback)

Susan Reinhardt's latest book is every bit as hysterical as her others...perhaps funnier. I read several chapters while sitting in a Chinese restaurant and embarrassed myself when an unexpected burst of laughter caused the piece of egg roll I was chewing, to fly across the room. The characters in this book are preposterous, wacky and wonderful. We're never quite sure which are real and which are a creation of Reinhardt's highly developed sense of the absurd. Reinhardt does something different in this book than she's done before; she reveals a time in her life that was not all laughs; a time when dark, deep depression lead to nine days in a mental hospital. Her decision to open up to her readers was bold, brave and edifying.

As a non-fiction humor writer myself, I'd kill for a dose of Reinhardt's uninhibited imagination.