Book #9 Completed! "Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil" by John Berendt

I learned A LOT from this book! For example:

Witches love pork meat. The preferred dining choice of witches is pork meat, rice, potatoes, black-eyed peas, cornbread, lima beans, cabbage (all cooked in pork fat of course). Ergo, if I have ever called you a witch and you don't love these foods - I apologize because you apparently are not a witch.

Related - if I think of you as a witch in the future, know that in the mental picture not only will you be wearing the pointy hat but now you also will be eating the above meal. Just an FYI

But I learned more than just stuff about witches! I learned that the city of Savannah was saved from General Sherman's scorched earth march to the sea during the Civil War because they basically turned into France as the Union army approched and gave up. This saved Savannah from being burned to the ground like Atlanta was and caused the Union army to march further, to Charleston, and burn them to the ground! Nice huh?

Oh this book has everything! It starts with the creepy statue of the girl that is on the cover. I have decided that I am going to get a copy of this for my yard however Mit is less than sold on that idea. In the actual book there is a ecclectic cast of characters: a voodoo priestess, a rich older bisexual male, a young bisexual redneck male, a guy who just moves into empty houses and throws parties until he gets kicked out, a drag queen, and the list goes on and on. Outsisde of the voodoo lady, which is a bit creepy to me, they all are such interesting and vibrant characters that draw you into their paticular life story.

And it is set in Savannah. Savannah is on my list of Southern cities that I am going to go visit because it sounds so interesting. The problem that I have is Mit has repeatedly told me that if I go I am going alone because she is of the opinion that General Sherman was in fact a failure for he failed to burn all of the South to the ground and eradicate all semblence of Southern culture. Such a Yankee that girl is I tell you!

And, AND the book is a true story! AND there is a movie about it. AND (times three) almost everyone in this book spends all of their days drinking, which I think is awesome even though I don't have the fortitude for it anymore for I could tell you stories of the last time I really drank and they are not real flattering. Regardless, I am in awe of those who can drink like that.

Ergo, this book is pretty damn awesome and threfore I give it:

Vroom, Vroom, Vroom, Vroom (4 out of 5 "vroom"'s on the motorcycle scale of awesomeness)

Next up: "I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell" by Tucker Max (I have no idea how I am going to write a publically appropriate review for this book because it is @%#$@ HILLARIOUS!)