Celia Rivenbark does not cover new territory in "Belle Weather, Mostly Sunny with a Chance of Scattered Hissy Fits," but when you read it you won't care.
Her tales of domestic life in North Carolina are like Erma Bombeck's but with an edge. Chapters on her home renovations, "duh Hubby" and the Princess (her 9-year-old daughter) will have you chuckling, sometimes out loud.
Rivenbark is not your goody two-shoes southern wife and mom. Well, mostly she is, but she writes with a twang and a zing that perk up the ordinary PTA meetings and summer beach vacations of her life. I personally could have done without the s-word when she used it a few times; it didn't fit. But maybe that's just me.
Still, I enjoyed her tales of family and friends. Rivenbark's columns occasionally run in the York Daily Record/Sunday News.
Read a couple chapters of this book at the end of a long hard day and she'll have you smiling as you fall asleep. And that's not so bad, is it?
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