Jim Ritchie's Reviews

“Shavin’s Under a Southern Shade Tree is the perfect tonic for the blues. A five-minute read will have you chuckling, if not laughing out loud.”

--J.C. Patterson, Clarion Ledger

"Reading Ritchie’s book is uplifting, just plain clean fun and good therapy."

--Ben Douglas, Northside Sun

“Be prepared to read Shavin’s Under a Southern Shadetree at least twice. I’ll be reading along quietly and then Jim drops an atomic bomb in the middle of a sentence. My wife will ask what’s so funny, and I’ll have to go back and reread it all out loud to her.”

--Walt Grayson, WLBT-3 reporter/former weather anchor, author of Looking Around Mississippi Some More

“I couldn't stop laughing and even got a little misty-eyed a couple of times reading these wonderful stories. Jim has a way of making his tall tales jump right off the page and grab you."

--Joe Camp, author of The Soul of a Horse, director of the Benji movies