LAUNCH DAY!

Posted on June 4, 2008

It’s official! This afternoon, Meg and I flung ourselves through the doors of Joseph-Beth Booksellers with the kind of enthusiasm one usually sees only when those grand gates at Churchill Downs are thrown open. Or when they play the news footage of that God-awful designer-wedding-dress-for-a-dollar smorgasboard up in Boston. (Having lived both places, let me just say it’s fortuitous indeed that they don’t hold that sale in Lexington Kentucky. Seriously, people would wind up headless and shorn to shreds with Lee press-ons. But I digress…)

There, front and center on the “New and Noteworthy” table, was a neat stack of Trespassers Will Be Baptized, displayed side by side with When You are Engulfed in Flames by David Sedaris.

I can’t write that kind of irony.

If you’re still on the fence about whether to buy, try the newest reviews on for size.

From Notes From the Soul (read the whole thing here: http://notesfromthesoul.blogspot.com/2008/05/its-giveaway.html)

“You do not have to be a Southern Baptist to appreciate this book. You will absolutely relate to her and I can guarantee that you will have a great laugh.

If you are a PK and have grown up in a glass house, you will appreciate this.

If you are a deacon’s child and have listened to your parents “discuss” the PK’s, you will appreciate this.

If you have ever taught GA’s, Acteens, RA’s, WMU, Mission Friends….Sunday School… you will laugh out loud and get the biggest kick out of Elizabeth’s candid story telling.”

From The Literate Housewife (love that title!) (read the whole thing here: http://literatehousewife.wordpress.com/)

”Miss Em was a precocious little girl who grew up certain that she knew exactly the way it was, only to find out that even her parents weren’t always so sure. It is her experiences coming to learn and understand how her parents, most especially her father, live within the spaces between their holy” (public) life and their “human” (private) life that make this memoir interesting and applicable to almost anyone who once was a child.”