Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
4/5
Audiobook5 hours
The Cracker Queen: A Memoir of a Jagged, Joyful Life
Written by Lauretta Hannon
Narrated by Julia Gibson
Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
5/5
()
About this audiobook
Award-winning author and humorist Lauretta Hannon is also a popular contributor to Georgia Public Radio. A collection of hilarious and poignant true Southern stories, The Cracker Queen dispels the popular image of the Southern belle with spirited portraits of strong, authentic Southern women.
Related to The Cracker Queen
Related audiobooks
Tapestry In the Country of Women: A Memoir Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Threads: A Depression Era Tale Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsIn the Neighborhood of Normal Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Patty Jane's House of Curl Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Last Day the Dogbushes Bloomed Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Little Faith: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Guests on Earth Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5This Life Is in Your Hands: One Dream, Sixty Acres, and a Family Undone Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5What You Have Left Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Mothers, Tell Your Daughters: Stories Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Me and My Baby View the Eclipse Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Family Linen Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Fair and Tender Ladies Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Little Miseries: This Is Not a Story About My Childhood Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Coal Tattoo Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Garden Angel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Cakewalk Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5New Mercies Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5My Old True Love Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Dimestore: A Writer's Life Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Recipes for a Beautiful Life: A Memoir in Stories Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Home Place: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Girlchild: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Coyote Dream Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Front-Porch Rocking Chairs Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsOral History Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A Daughter's Journey Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsSouthern Discomfort: A Memoir Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Bold Spirit Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5
Personal Memoirs For You
Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing: A Memoir Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5See You on the Way Down: Catch You on the Way Back Up! Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5I'm Glad My Mom Died Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Woman in Me Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Good Girls Don't Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Roxane Gay & Everand Originals: My Year of Psychedelics: Lessons on Better Living Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Finding Me: A Memoir Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Counting the Cost Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Son of Hamas: A Gripping Account of Terror, Betrayal, Political Intrigue, and Unthinkable Choices Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5In the Dream House: A Memoir Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Night: New translation by Marion Wiesel Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Making It So: A Memoir Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Wishful Drinking Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Roxane Gay & Everand Originals: Built for This: The Quiet Strength of Powerlifting Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5You Could Make This Place Beautiful: A Memoir Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5How to Stay Married Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Year of Magical Thinking Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Love, Pamela: A Memoir of Prose, Poetry, and Truth Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Pageboy: A Memoir Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Becoming Free Indeed: My Story of Disentangling Faith from Fear Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Angela's Ashes Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Love, Lucy Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5While Time Remains: A North Korean Girl's Search for Freedom in America Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Bad Mormon Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Enough Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5On Writing: A Memoir Of The Craft Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Glass Castle: A Memoir Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5How Y'all Doing?: Misadventures and Mischief from a Life Well Lived Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5
Related podcast episodes
Ep 386: Your ticket to unexplored genres 0% found this document usefulEp 399: The DNA of different book clubs 0% found this document usefulEp. 247 True Biz by Sara Nović -- The Stacks Book Club (Greta Johnsen) 0% found this document usefulHow To Save Your Soul In America - with R. Eric Thomas 0% found this document usefulEp 393: What makes you a "real" reader? 0% found this document usefulKatherine Heiny, GAMES AND RITUALS: Stories 0% found this document usefulCharleston, South Carolina | Sean of the South 0% found this document usefulJill Duggar Exposes Her Family And Reality TV 0% found this document useful323: Spree Killer Charles Starkweather w/ Harry MacLean 0% found this document usefulMore Than I Imagined with John Blake 0% found this document usefulThe 100th Episode Song Share Celebration 0% found this document usefulPatty Lin, END CREDITS: How I Broke Up with Hollywood 0% found this document usefulEp 403: I feel lost when it comes to fiction 0% found this document usefulAnna Quindlen, NANAVILLE: Adventures in Grandparenting 0% found this document usefulEp 156: Expert tips for a pretty, peaceful, practical bookshelf 0% found this document usefulAuthor Interview: Avery Cunningham (Author of The Mayor of Maxwell Street) 100% found this document usefulEp 316: Books we loved in 2021 0% found this document usefulMama | Sean of the South 0% found this document usefulEp 3: Leila Mottley and Al Murray 0% found this document useful
Related articles
A Literary Long Weekend in Charleston, South Carolina Literary HubArticle
A Literary Long Weekend in Charleston, South Carolina
May 24, 2017
6 min readHow to Spend a Literary Long Weekend in Edinburgh Literary HubArticle
How to Spend a Literary Long Weekend in Edinburgh
Nov 30, 2018
3 min readA user's guide to Taylor Swift's 'Speak Now (Taylor's Version)' Los Angeles TimesArticle
A user's guide to Taylor Swift's 'Speak Now (Taylor's Version)'
Jul 10, 2023
4 min read3 Classic Reviews for Judy Blume’s Birthday Literary HubArticle
3 Classic Reviews for Judy Blume’s Birthday
Feb 12, 2018
2 min readThe Complexity of Keeping House is Worthy of Great Literature Literary HubArticle
The Complexity of Keeping House is Worthy of Great Literature
Aug 6, 2018
6 min read'Lager Queen' Author Was Tired Of Caricatures Of Midwestern Women NPRArticle
'Lager Queen' Author Was Tired Of Caricatures Of Midwestern Women
Jul 23, 2019
3 min readA Note From Our CEO OUTArticle
A Note From Our CEO
Jan 20, 2023
1 min read‘I Hear The Screams’: 107-year-old Survivor Of 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre Testifies To Congress In Call For Justice The IndependentArticle
‘I Hear The Screams’: 107-year-old Survivor Of 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre Testifies To Congress In Call For Justice
May 20, 2021
Moments after falling asleep on 31 May, 1921, seven-year-old Viola Fletcher was awakened by her family and told to leave her home in the Greenwood neighbourhood of Tulsa, Oklahoma. Outside, a white mob drove thousands of Black residents from their ho
3 min readThe Rare Women in the Rare-Book Trade The Paris ReviewArticle
The Rare Women in the Rare-Book Trade
Jul 5, 2018
6 min readGilmore Girls: The Lead Male Characters On The Show, Ranked Worst To Least Awful The IndependentArticle
Gilmore Girls: The Lead Male Characters On The Show, Ranked Worst To Least Awful
Oct 5, 2020
5 min readDani Shapiro on Unraveling Her Family’s History Literary HubArticle
Dani Shapiro on Unraveling Her Family’s History
May 16, 2019
10 min read'The Best Cook In The World' Is Rick Bragg's Tribute To His Mother And Her Somewhat Exotic Culinary Skills The Christian Science MonitorArticle
'The Best Cook In The World' Is Rick Bragg's Tribute To His Mother And Her Somewhat Exotic Culinary Skills
Apr 25, 2018
Rick Bragg is no cook, but that doesn’t matter a bit when he writes his mother’s recipes. In his new book, The Best Cook In The World, the Pulitzer-prize-winning author is plenty of other things: a leisurely, soulful storyteller, a reporter with a po
3 min readSusan Orlean: ‘We Expect Librarians to Be Everything to Everybody’ Literary HubArticle
Susan Orlean: ‘We Expect Librarians to Be Everything to Everybody’
Dec 19, 2019
4 min readMonsters at Christmas Woman's OwnArticle
Monsters at Christmas
Dec 15, 2020
4 min readWhat Finally Ruins The Mountain Between Us The AtlanticArticle
What Finally Ruins The Mountain Between Us
Oct 6, 2017
4 min readSummer Thrills TIMEArticle
Summer Thrills
Aug 5, 2019
3 min readSpend The Night With Keanu And Sandra Chicago magazineArticle
Spend The Night With Keanu And Sandra
Dec 12, 2020
2 min readBeverly Cleary at 95: A Talk With the Author Who Created Ramona Quimby The AtlanticArticle
Beverly Cleary at 95: A Talk With the Author Who Created Ramona Quimby
Jul 6, 2011
4 min readWhen Kevin Kwan Realized He Could Be Funny Literary HubArticle
When Kevin Kwan Realized He Could Be Funny
Aug 27, 2018
10 min readThe Minders SFXArticle
The Minders
Oct 7, 2020
RELEASED OUT NOW! 448 pages | Paperback/ebook/audiobook Author John Marrs Publisher Del Rey John Marrs’s latest near future, high-concept techno-thriller isn’t so much a sequel to The One (DNA dating app has dark secret) and Passengers (autonomous ca
1 min readDani Shapiro: Did My Parents Even Know? Literary HubArticle
Dani Shapiro: Did My Parents Even Know?
Jan 23, 2019
6 min readTop 10 Books AppleMagazineArticle
Top 10 Books
Jun 16, 2023
1 min readScenes From a Marriage: Reading About My Great-Grandparents, Scott and Zelda Literary HubArticle
Scenes From a Marriage: Reading About My Great-Grandparents, Scott and Zelda
Apr 24, 2019
4 min read'Fatty Fatty Boom Boom' Details Podcaster's Battle With Weight NPRArticle
'Fatty Fatty Boom Boom' Details Podcaster's Battle With Weight
Nov 9, 2022
3 min readRomantic Entanglements Bring Humor And Heartache To Small Town The Christian Science MonitorArticle
Romantic Entanglements Bring Humor And Heartache To Small Town
Jun 21, 2021
Katherine Heiny’s novel transplants readers to Boyne City, Michigan, through the keen eyes of the town’s new schoolteacher.
3 min readExaggerated Claims About Girl Scout Cookies FactCheck.orgArticle
Exaggerated Claims About Girl Scout Cookies
Feb 25, 2019
A viral meme claims that Girl Scout cookies support Planned Parenthood, but the organization says it has no “relationship or partnership with Planned Parenthood.” The post Exaggerated Claims About Girl Scout Cookies appeared first on FactCheck.org.
3 min readTen Memoirs to Keep You Company in Isolation: A Reading List Literary HubArticle
Ten Memoirs to Keep You Company in Isolation: A Reading List
Apr 21, 2020
4 min readBeetlemania You South AfricaArticle
Beetlemania
Oct 9, 2020
4 min readOlivia De Havilland Dies At 104, Starred In 'Gone With The Wind' Los Angeles TimesArticle
Olivia De Havilland Dies At 104, Starred In 'Gone With The Wind'
Jul 26, 2020
Olivia de Havilland, the last remaining star from the 1939 epic film "Gone With the Wind" and a two-time Academy Award winner who for decades was seen as the essence of Hollywood royalty, has died at her residence in Paris. She was 104. De Havilland,
7 min readIn 1960s New York, Witchy Women Learn 'The Rules Of Magic' NPRArticle
In 1960s New York, Witchy Women Learn 'The Rules Of Magic'
Oct 8, 2017
2 min read
Related categories
Reviews for The Cracker Queen
Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
5/5
1 rating1 review
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5RUN to get this book! I loved it. The author gives a humorous tale of life, lessons and having had real problems and trials in her life, came out with a sense of humor. I laughed out loud several times and turned down more pages than I can tell you