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I've Had It Up to Here with Teenagers by Melinda Rainey Thompson
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I've Had It Up To Here with Teenagers Table of Contents, Letter from the Author, and Excerpt
News & Reviews
Melinda discusses the book, her teens, and everything in between with Alec Harvey of the Birmingham News.
“I've Had It Up to Here with Teenagers is a must-have . . . Thompson, with her trademark Southern charm and saucy down-home lingo, takes a frank look at the moody, fridge-raiding prima donnas for whom she does mounds of laundry, chauffeurs around town and bakes endless pound cake . . . Her tales of life with teens are horrifyingly uproarious.”
Shelf Awareness
“I am not using hyperbole when I say that Melissa Rainey Thompson is a modern-day Erma Bombeck, and so whether you have teens or not, this book is for you.”
5minutesformom.com
“I can’t even describe what a gift reading this book was for me . . . The book made me think about my parenting AND laugh, and that’s a wonderful combination.”
5minutesforbooks.com
“Ms. Thompson focuses her keen eye, sharp pen, and exasperated sense of humor on the more familiar, everyday madness of raising teenagers . . . Ms. Thompson clearly penned these essays to amuse, kvetch, and commiserate with her compatriots in the mother-trenches. . . .”
New York Journal of Books
Melinda discusses her book with ABC 33/40 in Birmingham, Alabama:
Previous Praise
“Reading Melinda Rainey Thompson’s SWAG is like sitting on Granny’s porch swing eating a piece of pound cake with a sleeping cat wrapped around your ankles. You feel full, warm, and most of all, grateful to be a Southerner.”
—Celia Rivenbark, author of You Don’t Sweat Much for a Fat Girl
"Thompson . . . has a knack for finding the Southern heart in ordinary life."
—The Commercial Appeal, Memphis
"The author definitely hits a nerve—and tickles the funny bone."
—Southern Living (December 2006 issue)
"Reading Melinda Rainey Thompson's SWAG is like sitting on Granny's porch swing eating a piece of pound cake with a sleeping cat wrapped around your ankles. You feel full, warm, and most of all, grateful to be a Southerner."
—Celia Rivenbark, author of We're Just Like You, Only Prettier
"SWAG is a laugh-out-loud good time. . . . Southern women's lives are full of funny accounts of 'the rules,' but none comes funnier than Melinda Rainey Thompson's collection of essays, interspersed with 'how to' notes."
—Clarion-Ledger, Clinton, Mississippi
Previous Accolades
I Love You—Now Hush (cowritten with Morgan Murphy), was a 2010 ForeWord Reviews’ Book of the Year winner and a 2011 Benjamin Franklin Award finalist, both in the Humor category.
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