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Summary: I'm a Satellite Sister
Review: I love this book and I love the Satellite Sisters. Reading thier book takes me back to my own childhood, growing up in a big family with my sisters. I'm sending a copy to each of my sisters. We're all getting together for Thanksgiving and I'm sure UnCommon Senses will be the talk of the table. Thank you Dolan Sisters.
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Summary: I want to be a satellite sister!
Review: I love this radio show so I went to a reading two of the sisters did in New York this week. Not only did I buy the book, based on their warm and funny presentation, but I bought three copies for my closest friends for Christmas. Having read my own copy in the last two days or so, I may need to stock up on a few more. This is the kind of book to share with friends - it's a very charming memoir about their childhood mixed with some observations about the importance of friendship and connection in their lives today. Each of the five sisters have a different point of view, but the overall message is about valuing the people in your life. This is stuff that's worth thinking about, especially if you can laugh a little while you do. There are lots of recent books about about women's lives, but they are all about one Bridget Jones-like individual. This one gets at the connections between female friends, which makes it much more original and memorable.
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Summary: Uncommonly easy reading
Review: I saw the cover of this book and picked it up not knowing anything about who these sisters were. I don't get the Satellite
sisters radio show in Denver but the cover intrigued me having
grown up in a big family myself. What I found inside was an unexpected treasure-- stories from grown-up women who have fond memories of when they were not so grown-up. This is exactly the kind of reading I love as I'm going to sleep each night. Thanks Dolans.
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Summary: Listen to the show
Review: I'm told the radio show is better, and I believe it. This is the story of the Dolan sisters and their somewhat unbelievable childhood growing up in a family of 10. As the oldest of seven, I can say that I found the story sugar-coated---note that the parents are largely absent, which probably wasn't the case but that's how it feels when you're part of a crowd. The "carry your skis" section certainly rang true, as is the assertion that in a large family one learns one is not the center of the universe. But the book is pretty superficial and a little too cute for my taste.
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Summary: If you have sisters or friends...
Review: If you have sisters or friends, I think this book will really remind you of what you love about them. I laughed a lot and found many essays very poignant. Especially since September 11th, I am conscious of the importance of the people in my life and this book made me see that in a positive way, not just a sad way.
The authors (all real sisters) have a point of view about life that I found really refreshing: It is important to nurture connections, laugh out loud, support and encourage your friends and see yourself as part of a larger community. Amen, sisters!
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Summary: Get over yourself
Review: The Dolans evoke an era (70s) and a place (somewhere in CT, Fairfield, Southport, I couldn't figure it out), that those of us in our 30s and 40s can all relate to (I had forgotten about rainbow belts until Sheila's lyrical pursuit of Landlubber hiphuggers in Westport brought it all back in one patchouli-scented wave with a James Taylor soundtrack) Too positive, too nice to their parents? I find it a refreshing change and a great gift suggestion for people who need to get over their inner child and learn how to make a family and live a life.
Go girls!
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Summary: celebrating sisterhood
Review: The Five Dolan sisters, known on public radio as the co-hosts of the popular radio program, "Satellite sisters", have produced a great book that celebrates sisterhood, and mixes insouciant fun together with hard-earned wisdom. Born into an era of the 50s and early 60s when one wage-earner could support large families, they along with their three brothers and parents, constituted a ten-member family. (It's interesting to note that among the eight siblings there are only, as of the present, eleven grandchildren. Times change.) The five sisters cover much territory in their book , writing of the various stages of their lives, of men, of careers and of jobs that paid the rent, of motherhood, of adventure, of time management, of holidays and sisters' weeks. You name the topic and you'll probably find it here. The central theme of this high-spirited book is connectedness, the invigorating bonding all women need to flourish and to find meaning in their life and work. Whenever a friend has to move, amid the wrenching goodbyes I have learned to tell her, "When you find just one good friend in the new area, it will begin to seem like home." Sisters are especially lucky because they have lifelong friends in each other, and as the five Dolan sisters can testify, that connection survives years and distance and whatever events life brings.
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Summary: celebrating sisterhood
Review: The Five Dolan sisters, known on public radio as the co-hosts of the popular radio program, "Satellite sisters", have produced a great book that celebrates sisterhood, and mixes insouciant fun together with hard-earned wisdom. Born into an era of the 50s and early 60s when one wage-earner could support large families, they along with their three brothers and parents, constituted a ten-member family. (It's interesting to note that among the eight siblings there are only, as of the present, eleven grandchildren. Times change.) The five sisters cover much territory in their book , writing of the various stages of their lives, of men, of careers and of jobs that paid the rent, of motherhood, of adventure, of time management, of holidays and sisters' weeks. You name the topic and you'll probably find it here. The central theme of this high-spirited book is connectedness, the invigorating bonding all women need to flourish and to find meaning in their life and work. Whenever a friend has to move, amid the wrenching goodbyes I have learned to tell her, "When you find just one good friend in the new area, it will begin to seem like home." Sisters are especially lucky because they have lifelong friends in each other, and as the five Dolan sisters can testify, that connection survives years and distance and whatever events life brings.
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Summary: Eagerly awaiting the next book!
Review: These sisters are hilarious. I read their regular column in Oprah Magazine and listen to their radio show, so when I saw the paperback in the store, I grabbed it. You know how you feel when you spend a fun night with your girlfriends? That's how you'll feel after reading this book. The five Dolan sisters are all very funny but their points of view about life are very different. It's organized into a series of separate essays about their lives growing up and their lives now. This book is a pleasure and I've already bought it for a couple of my friends for their birthdays and they agreed.
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Summary: I loved them in Oprah Magazine so I bought their book
Review: These sisters are hilarious. I read their regular column in Oprah Magazine and listen to their radio show, so when I saw the paperback in the store, I grabbed it. You know how you feel when you spend a fun night with your girlfriends? That's how you'll feel after reading this book. The five Dolan sisters are all very funny but their points of view about life are very different. It's organized into a series of separate essays about their lives growing up and their lives now. This book is a pleasure and I've already bought it for a couple of my friends for their birthdays and they agreed.
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