Saturday Night Cocoa Fudge: a Little Girl in the 1950s South [Kindle Edition]

Gloria Teague (Author)

Editorial Reviews

Product Description

Saturday Night Cocoa Fudge is the coming-of-age story in an era of bobby socks, poodle skirts and the freckled-faced girl that wore them. It's also about the Deep South and sweetly flawed women who taught her what she was meant to be and what she was not meant to be.

Their corner of the world was filled with folklore, superstition, and mystical ideas. Her grandmother believed and practiced most of these, passing them onto the next generation. The little girl's life was populated with strange relatives, quirky neighbors and mysterious bible verses that could stop the flow of blood. Being a member of this bizarre family made life worth living. These people were so fiercely loyal in their love for her, for each other, she felt they deserved to have their story told.

"Gloria has written some southern style, real to life episodes that are sure to
entertain you in her Saturday Night Cocoa Fudge. Be careful how much
you laugh - they could have happened to you."
- Dusty Richards, Spur Award Winning Author

"With wit and wisdom, Gloria Teague takes us back to the innocent days of
childhood in this delightful little book peopled with glorious eccentrics."
- Charles W. Sasser, author of God in the Foxhole and Devoted to Fishing.

Product Details

• Format: Kindle Edition
• File Size: 601 KB
• Print Length: 188 pages
• Simultaneous Device Usage: Unlimited
• Publisher: Roots & Branches (June 23, 2010)
• Sold by: Amazon Digital Services
• Language: English
• ASIN: B003TU2IGC
• Text-to-Speech: Enabled
• Lending: Enabled
• Average Customer Review: 4.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (13 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,888 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)
  • #9 in Kindle Store > Kindle eBooks > Humor > Parenting & Families
  • #11 in Kindle Store > Kindle eBooks > Humor > Essays
  • #16 in Kindle Store > Kindle eBooks > Nonfiction > Biographies & Memoirs > Specific Groups > Women

More About the Author

Gloria Teague is an award-winning author in both fiction and nonfiction, in magazines, newspapers and e-zines. She has two books and two novels, over 50 short stories and several articles published. She's contributing author to Book Marketing from A to Z, had a feature article in Woman's World in 2009 just before she was chosen as Tulsa NightWriter of the Year.
Gloria is newsletter editor for NightScripts, a monthly newsletter with a circulation of over one hundred people. She is secretary for Oklahoma Writers' Federation, INC., the largest writers' organization in the southwestern US.
Though she was born in E. Tennessee, she currently lives in Oklahoma with her husband, and her spoiled dogs Tiger and Barkley.
For more information about this author, you can visit her website at www.gloriateague.com

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Thank You For the Memories, May 3, 2011

By 

erbunch - See all my reviews

Amazon Verified Purchase

This review is from: Saturday Night Cocoa Fudge: a Little Girl in the 1950s South (Kindle Edition)

You took me back to my early years, visiting my Granny in Tazewell, Tn and
growing up in a small neighborhood in Knoxville, Tn. No matter where one is from this story will resonate with you. Growing up each of us had that favorite grandmother, aunt, uncle,and best friend we loved to fight with. We each had our fears of bugs, snakes, and bumps in the dark. We each had skinned knee's, bumps on the head, and trips to the ER to check if it was broken or not. Gloria Teague brings back good memories of growing up before internet, hand-held games, and cell phones. When a kid could be kid. She even gives you memories you might claim as one of your own, even if it wasn't. Thank you Miss Gloria.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Saturday Night Cocoa Fudge, January 16, 2012

By 

B.W. - See all my reviews

Amazon Verified Purchase

This review is from: Saturday Night Cocoa Fudge (Paperback)

Gloria Teague gives us a look into the past. Warm, descriptive, and fun. After reading it, I thought about cuddling up by a warm fire and thinking back on my childhood.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Warm and wonderful...just like "Cocoa Fudge" should be, November 15, 2008

By 

Charlene Williams "Charlene Oliver Williams" (Lucasville, OH) - See all my reviews
(REAL NAME)   

This review is from: Saturday Night Cocoa Fudge (Paperback)

Gloria,

I was transported back to the small town of LaFollette where we both grew up and there are so many parallels between our families. I find that the women in our families may have not had much to say...they just let their men think they were the "boss" when in actuality they were the keepers, the disciplinarians, etc. I think most of our mothers/aunts were very strong women with infinite wisdom...whether it be "book-learned" or "old-wives tales".

I hope we can expect a sequel to this book. The book ended too soon for me and I'd like to know what happened in the later years to all those "wonderful beings" you wrote about.

I recognize most of these colorful people just by your descriptions of them. I truly did love the book.