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Summary: This book is a must-read for mothers and daughters.
Review: "Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood" is a beautiful book that deals with much of what's meaningful in life: love, death, friendship, and the complex relationship between mothers and daughters. It deals with the complexities of life itself and how our childhoods can affect our grown-up lives - and how to move beyond that to find the positive. The characters are fully developed and complex - Vivi, the mother, is beautiful and vivacious; she is also capable of ferocious jealousy and rage. But the flawed characters only serve to make this book and its characters more beautiful and more human. The Louisiana setting that dominates most of the book comes to life on the page. You can literally smell the shrimp cooking, the scent of flowers and cut grass, sweaty bodies and cool water. You can't read this book without being moved.
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Summary: A truly memorable book!
Review: I could not put this book down. I was instantly drawn into this family's world. Every page is precious!
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Summary: A worthy prequel to the wonderful "Divine Secrets... "
Review: If you liked the "Divine Secrets of the Ya Ya Sisterhood" you will surely enjoy this book as well. Ms. Wells gives us a vivid picture of what it is like to be a child of Vivi Abbott Walker, which is to say pure joy juxtaposed with pure hell. Vivi Walker is a woman of extremes. On one hand her day isn't complete unless she takes time to sit and enjoy the simple, yet sublime pleaure of viewing the sunset from her backyard, on the other hand she is as mean a drunk as you could ever hope to avoid.Be forewarned that if you fell in love with this character in "The Divine Secrets of the Ya Ya Sisterhood", that a dark and very disturbing facet of her personality is revealed in this book.
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Summary: If you are from the south, you MUST read this book.
Review: This book brought back very strong memories. In DEVINE SECRETS..., I was introduced to the Ya Ya's and I fell in love w/ them. LITTLE ALTARS is much darker. However, there was enough nostalgia that I was transported back to my southern youth. There is a Siddalee in every southern woman today.
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Summary: Buy it for a sister you love.
Review: Loved this and am buying it as a Christmas gift for 1 of my 6 , 5 of which are genuine, "ya ya" sisters. This book will catch you from page one, enthrall you with its descriptions and surprise you in the manner and the situations in which the sisters end up supporting each other.
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Summary: IN COMPARISON TO DIVINE SECRETS, IT DOESN'T STACK UP!
Review: I read Divine Secrets first and absolutely LOVED it. I was disappointed by Little Altars. It was depressing, too many points of view which led to poor character development compared to her 2nd book. Had I read this book first, I would not have chosen to read another of Wells' books, which would have been unfortunate.
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Summary: I decided to write my Junior Independant Study on it.
Review: Every line of the novel made me feel as if I had been an eye witness of the account. I was moved and went to each end of the spectrum with each member of the Walker family!
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Summary: If you love the yahoo sisterhood-do not read this book!
Review: I read this book anticipating the enjoyment that I received when I read the "Yahoo Yahoo Sisterhood.". It is written by the same author but has all the sadness of growing up in a childhood filled with alcholism & child abuse with very little humor within. The "Yahoo Yahoo Sisterhood" I passed to everyone to read & even bought as birthday presents! This book "Little Altars Everywhere" when I finished I threw in the garbage & told everyone do not bother reading.
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Summary: better than Divine Secrets
Review: WOW, read Divine Secrets in 3 days, Little Altars in one day. Had to call in sick to work so I could stay home and read it! I wasn't an abused child of alcoholic parents, but I identified with this book more than any other I have read. Be it southern roots, the Catholic church, the smell of bourbon, cotton fields, oak trees, front porches or catfish, this book hit HOME. Kudos to Rebecca Wells for capturing the voice of southern men, women and and children in a dignified manner instead of the typical slam we read by most authors.
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Summary: Wonderful bittersweet reminiscences about growing up
Review: I found myself laughing aloud at the children's stories in the first half of the book. The second part, however, was quite a story. I couldn't put it down. Like many other readers, I bought the Divine Secrets as soon as I finished this book.
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