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Summary: I would read it again, but I gave it to my mom to read.
Review: The funny thing is that I picked it up out of desperation at the airport. I ended up leaving the streets of Paris early to rush to my hotel to read the Divine Secrets. I bawled in the trains and laughed out loud in restaurants. I even read passages out loud to my boyfriend - I never do that, too cheesy. It made me think of my mother, my friends, my father, my lack of religion, my potential husband, my future kids, visiting the bayou of Lousiana. It turned me into a sentimental fool for someone else's family. Her character development is amazing. I want to name my kids Siddalee and Baylor. I have never felt compelled to write comments to an author or about a book, but I have to ask her to write another book, soon.
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Summary: Banal, trite, self-indulgent, liberal feminist nonsense.
Review: I finished this book because it was the only one I brought on the plane and the film was "Lost in Space".I have never read such a cliched, predictable and tedious book. I thought the writing was sophomoric and dull. It read like the author had written the story and then picked up a thesaurus and started changing words at random to make the piece read "more intelligently". What I wouldn't give for a book where people walked across a floor instead of "padded".
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Summary: Rebecca Wells' way with words is magical
Review: Wow -- finished YA-YA Sisterhood last night -- what a wonderful, wonderful book! I was enchanted . . . I cried and laughed, cried and laughed through the entire book. Rebecca Wells' way with words is magical -- so much so, I found myself highlighting sentences and paragraphs just so that I could scan back through and reread my favorite parts! It was particularly a good read for me because of so many familiar scenarios, characters -- the catholic theme and southern women portrayal were dead on . . . and I wish a guy like "Connor" for all the special women I know -- don't you!? Most importantly, the book left me with a new appreciation and understanding for my own southern mama and a renewed realization that we should not "sweat the BIG or small stuff" in life, but celebrate, celebrate, celebrate. Ridden any elephants lately? :) Thank you Rebecca Wells!
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Summary: Deeply Southern. Peculiarly Louisiana.
Review: The plot starts out fun and frolicking- superficial, almost. Gradually, however, you will enter the dark side that is inevitable when you are writing about women in groups. Complex, funny, well-developed and so true to those of us from Louisiana and the Deep South. My only criticism-- at times a little tooooo contrived and planned. Too much emphasis on "brand-naming" everything. Otherwise- a rivoting read.
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Summary: I AM A YAYA SISTER!
Review: What I have to say is short and sweet..I read the book I fell in love with it I gave it to my mother she loved it and know when things get dicey we say what would a Ya Ya do? Its a southern thing honey you wouldn't understand.
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Summary: Couldn't live up to the hype
Review: I was skeptical when this book was chosen by my book club for its latest selection, and I tried to be fair and objective as I began reading. I have to say, though, that my initial hunch was correct. I thought it was a tremendous disappointment. The characters, including all four Ya-Yas were very superficial...I didn't find myself invested in them at all. Characters, scenes and dialogue did not ring true...they were all very labored and clicheed (here's an original character: a gay, witty costume designer), and rendered in pedestrian prose. And am I the only reader who found Teensy's morsels (or, rather morceaux) of French dialogue akin to fingernails on a blackboard? There was no emotional payoff for me, either; Sidda's reconciliation with her mother being triggered by memories of an elephant ride just didn't work, in my mind. The seeds of a good storyteller are there somewhee, I think, but in this work, Ms. Wells couldn't pull it off.
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Summary: The Ya-Ya's are in many of us.
Review: My best girlfriend of over 20 years told me about this book. The antics of the Ya-Ya's reminded her so much of our childhood and I wholeheartedly agree. Anyone who still has a friendship that was cultivated in childhood will appreciate this story, as will any mother/daughter who may still be trying to figure each other out. Rebecca Wells captures each scene so vividly that I found myself laughing out loud in one chapter and then sobbing a chapter later. The author makes you care about her characters.
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Summary: Undescribable inside expressions of womanliness
Review: I teach Medicine Wheel classes that show persons how to BE their own person! I quote lines in the book and recommend everyone in the class buy it! I laughed out loud - alone. My heart cracked, it broke, it mended. I sobbed. I healed. I thank Rebecca Wells for actually feeling the roundness of a woman.
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Summary: Makes you laugh and cry! You'll want to be a Ya Ya!
Review: I thoroughly enjoyed every page of this book . The bonds of friendship we all seem to yearn for and some of us are lucky enough to have. Our book club which spans ages of four decades read this book and loved it! We call ourselves the "Ya Ya Book Club " now in honor of this fabulous book.
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Summary: A wonderful story of female friendship
Review: I was bombarded with recommendations to read this wonderful story from my mother, my and my mother's closest friends, my female boss etc etc. As we are brought through Vivi's life - both the good and bad - what I enjoyed most was the strength, support and sheer joy the Ya-ya's experienced through their lifelong friendship. Any woman would be grateful for to experience such a bond!
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