Little Altars Everywhere : CD

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Summary: MUST READ
Review: You must read Little Alters Everywhere and The Divine Secrets of the YA-YA sisterhood in that order or you won't get it. If you read them in this order you will really enjoy them. Otherwise, The Ya Ya's don't make much sense. Give them a try!

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Summary: Disappointing
Review: She does an excellent job of changing her style of writing to give a different feel to the read for each character. One of the best for this style however, it left me cold after reading the Ya-Ya Sisters. The Ya-ya sisters glowed with relationships and culture and this just read dark.

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Summary: MUCH BETTER THAN THE YA YA SISTERHOOD
Review: I read the Ya Ya Sisterhood first and thought it was entertaining, but nothing to shout about or recommend to my friends. Then I read Little Alters and really really liked it. Don't bother with the Sisterhood and go straight to Little Alters.

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Summary: Little Altars Everywhere
Review: Ms. Wells introduces us to the Walker family and various other players in the small town of Thornton, Mississippi. This book did not take me through the emotions that her second book The Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood did. I couldn't wait to read this book and was somewhat dissappointed in the less than captivating story. I gained tidbits of information about characters I already knew and that helped me enjoy this book a bit. Ms. Wells has the gift to create wonderful characters and make them real to life. Every emotion that the characters feel is there for you to see and feel. Personally I missed the refreshing sense of humor that the second book displayed. I am glad that I read the book but could not say it keep me enthralled like this author's other work. Ms. Wells please give us more about this interesting group of lost souls but please remember that humor is often nature's balm to a bad situation.

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Summary: Avoid it!
Review: Why I did this to myself, I will never know....I thought the Ya Ya was totally overrated and BAD...and then I decide to try this one...and it is equally a bad book. Is there a conspiracy out there to PRETEND these books are good? Both this and Ya Ya? Well....save yourself the time and find something worthwhile! BELIEVE ME!

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Summary: Good writer, rotten characters.
Review: This is a book with many of the same problems as Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood, except it is even less entertaining. This bunch of disfunctional people who form ugly family units and are surrounded by co-dependant girlfriends ...see themselves as the most popular and beautiful in town. Beauty is only skin-deep and I think the talented author could give the Ya-Ya's: courage, compasssion, and sober them up. They all lived charmed lives as pampered house drones and celebrate every blissful summer with swimming, song, sun, and Scotch while their kids watch in shame! You can write better than this...I'd bet you a dollar. Please try again!

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Summary: Southern Friends
Review: We should all have groups of friends like the Ya-Ya's. Being a southerner myself I admired the way the author wove the rich heritage of family and communtiy into her writing. Although the book may not be a "happy" take on life, most of us know that that's the way real life is. I recommend this and the sequel.

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Summary: As I said before...Love You Crazy Southern Women
Review: Wonderful book, makes me want for Ya-Ya's of my own. Read this and Devine Secrets. Makes you long for life long friends!

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Summary: couldn't stomach it
Review: I am not someone who only enjoys a book if it is about a functional and happy family; I loved ANGELA'S ASHES. But something about LITTLE ALTARS made me a little sick. I didn't care about any of the characters because they were so awful. From the first page to the last, I found nothing compelling about this book, only characters who are smug about their skewed world. Guess I won't be reading DIVINE SECRETS.

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Summary: Great but Disapointing
Review: Little Alters Everywhere by Rebecca Wells is a witty and tragic novel. The characters, Sidda, Shep, Little Shep, Viva, Willetta, and the others are each such profound characters with such diverse and distinct personalities. Wells begins the novel with a special style of humor that quickly turns to sadness. The reality of this southern dysfunctional family quickly overruns the humor at the beginning of the novel. She shocks the reader as she portrays, the mother Vivi, as an alcoholic and as a child molester. The father, Big Shep, is not man enough to stand up to his wife so he often just leaves the family to stay at his hunting camp. The problems the children face are heartbreaking. The black hired hands, Willetta and Chaney, are probably the most stable adults in the lives of the children. I found the book to be enjoyable but it left me with uneasy feelings as well. I'm anxious to read the sequel, The Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood, in hopes of finding out what led Vivi and Big Shep to their evil ways.