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Summary: Get ready for a ride!
Review: A wonderfully entertaining book about the magical friendships between women, and the wild roller-coaster, love/hate relationships between mothers and daughters. You will laugh yourself silly, and cry buckets of tears your didn't know needed to be cried.
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Summary: Best book I have read in a long time
Review: This book is awesome, I can't put it down. I will run right out and buy Little Altars when I finish this one.
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Summary: So much more than Nostalgia...
Review: This book flows much more deeply than the previous reviewer must have realized. This isn't just a "Grandma telling stories" type of novel. I admit that the three viewpoints Wells uses to tell the story (narrator, Sidda and Vivi) had me swirling at first, but the depth and emotion of the book held it together. It was intended to be a look at why a forty year old woman acts the way she does and feels the way she does, not a mere walk down memory lane, though it entails the neccesary memories to help the woman realize why she is the way she is. There is too much pain within the characters to consider is plainly nostalgic. Divine Secrets is a well written novel with wonderful,intricate characters. I adored the book, and would recommend it to all of my (female) friends.
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Summary: A book I will save for my daughter to read....
Review: The negative reviews are obviously from Yankees who have no idea about the complex & competitive relationships between mothers and daughters in the South.While my expeirences were not exactly the same, I found that page after page I could relate and take comfort in knowing that the drama was not only in my life but a common bond to the sisters of the South. Additionally, the book was almost theraputic in helping me to understand how my mother's own dysfunctional relationship with my Granny combined with her own life experiences made her the woman that she is. This is a wonderful book especially for any woman who has a turbulent relationship with her mother.
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Summary: Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood
Review: A Southern classic! This is just plain great fun to read. I bought a gazillion copies for my family and friends and they loved it so much they did the same. It's a wonderful story that made me laugh one minute and cry the next. I must say that I think you have to be a Southerner and especially a Southern woman to really appreciate this book, which is one reason why I am writing this review---unfortunately I noticed a few of the reviews of this book were written by people from New York, and well, they can't possibly relate to or understand the genuine nature of the characters or the story. Rebecca Wells has depicted the South and its women so very well. "Little Alters Everywhere" is also a must-read, and if you like these books, you'll really enjoy "Sweet Potato Queens' Book of Love" by Jil Conner Browne. Very funny and also very Southern!
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Summary: makes you realise the true value of friendship..
Review: This book was truly the best one i've ever read before in my life.. believe me, i've read TONS! It'll make you laugh, and cry.. and wish you were part of the ya-ya rabilia.. a must read.. and the movie's coming out too!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Summary: Ugh--
Review: A rich, selfish and spoiled southern woman who loves her bratty childhood friends more than her husband and kids is not a very appealing lead character nor is she particularly complex or interesting -- but the author seems to think we should admire her and find her fascinating. Not! Dont believe the hype-- Dont buy the book
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Summary: My Favorite of All Time
Review: This is truly a soul searching book!For those of us raised in the south and no longer able to live there Wells takes us back.She also makes you realize you don't always have to understand life just accept it with all the good and bad.
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Summary: what a great book
Review: it was an amazing story. and i think that it teaches that you have to let go of the past and move on with your life, else you'll be misrible.
it made me long for the type of friendship the ya-yas have. i wanted to live my childhood over in the hope of finding friends like that.
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Summary: A great story, a great read
Review: Well written AND a good plot line! Say no more. I picked up the Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood from a friend's bookshelf and read it in a night. Think "Fried Green Tomatoes" meets "Thelma and Louise". This book has everything; it chronicles (in part) a mother's dysfunctional relationships between her and her mother, and her and her daughter. Wells develops her characters superbly, and manages to reveal a place beyond the dysfunction-- where we see two people who really care about each other. The characters are dynamic, funny (painfully so at times), and reveal a tragic side of life that many of us are all to familiar with. I know it's cliche'd, but this is just one of those books that will make you laugh, cry and feel everything in between.
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