Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood : A Novel

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Summary: It makes me glad to be a woman and have best friends
Review: One of my closet friends Jenny lent me her copy - I have to buy my own so I can have it on my bookshelf and loan it to my sister and friends. I loved the characters, the phrases (I call my baby daughter a petite ya-ya now) and how the story turns out. I could relate to having a dysfunctional family, but was more that it happens and that you get past it. Best of all is how it makes you feel about your friends.

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Summary: This book was so cool
Review: I loved this book. If someone else has read this and hasn't read Little Altars yet then they should buy the book as soon as possible.Little Altars kind of fills in some of the blanks of Divine Secrets.When I was done reading all I could think was that I wanted all of Vivi's friends.

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Summary: My All Time Favorite!!
Review: I loved this book, but not as much as I loved the characters!! If only we could all posesss such dear and true friendships. Alcoholism aside, these women were bonded and so true to eachother! Sidda's life was in question because of her childhood. The three ya ya friends came to save Sidda and taught her that she is capable of love. And what about the dreamy Connor? How beautiful is his true love and devotion to sidda? Sidda and Vivi were headed for destruction and true love from Connor and the Ya Ya's showed Sidda that love is not judgemental and the book ended beautifully. (had me in complete tears) This book is true and it writes about the powers and questions of love!! Oh and I absolutely love all of the names!!! Rebecca, could you PLEASE write more about the YA Ya's and the petite Ya Ya's!!!!???

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Summary: I disliked this book very much
Review: I considered stopping about half way through but kept going and I should have gone with my original inclination. Too many details - too many characters - too many weird french expressions - too much of a time span covered - it made no sense that some time periods were covered in excruciating details and then decades were skipped. This was a truly awful book.

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Summary: Love conquers all despite absurdities and overindulgence
Review: Rebecca Wells has done it again! Created a wonderful book full of humor and the realities of human life in all its many complexities. The Yaya Sisterhood follows Little Altars Everywhere and continues the adventures of Vivi Walker and her three childhood friends--the Yayas. This book focuses on the mothers and their relationships since childhood in a small Louisiana town where they drove the nuns crazy at their Catholic school, not to mention the local police and their parents. Their antics will conjure up memories for those of us who loved to break the rules and have a good time growing up, and their lifelong friendships are something we all long for and miss if we don't have them. The Yayas is a lighter book than Little Altars and skims over much of the darker side of life that ran concurrently with the seemingly endless days of fun. The children who admitted, if only to themselves, the abuse that occurred, are found frolicking with and relishing in their mothers eccentricities and it's hard to keep from laughing and loving them all the way through the novel. Siddalee Walker, the narrator and Vivi's oldest daughter, is the instigator of uncovering the "divine secrets of the yaya sisterhood" in an attempt to heal the wounds between herself and her mother which were incurred when Sidda gave an interview and mentioned her mother and upbringing in an unflattering light. As the story unravels with Sidda's obtaining the Yaya scrapbook, we learn the secrets and insights that have shaped the four women whom Sidda has loved since childhood. The ending is full of healing and redemption and the love that often exists in families regardless of their destructive qualities.

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Summary: A great "Womans" book for anyone growing up in dysfunction!
Review: This book effected me deeply. I identified with Sidda being a adult child of an alchaholic mother, and I Identifed with her mother Vivi, being a mother of 3 little ones. Rebecca Wells hits on feelings and thoughts we all have but are to ashamed to discuss. I have a group of my own Ya ya's, and have bought them each this book! Excellant job for her second time out! A must read for this summer's sun worshipers!!!

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Summary: Good book about women bonding
Review: This book is a sequel which should be read first in retrospect. (It is understandable why sequel made the bestseller list)It is upbeat whereas the first book is a downer.

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Summary: The effects of alcohol on innocent bystanders
Review: I wish I had read Little Alters Everywhere before reading The Divine Secrets of the Ya Ya Sisterhood. I loved Ya Ya Sisterhood as a good read and although uncomfortable with the alcoholism of the Ya Yas I saw all of their faults as a way of showing the effects parents actions have on the lives of their children. I think as women we can all relate to the relationship of the freinds. We all cherished our childhood buddies and the silly things we did together. I am sad that I am not in touch with my past friends. After reading it we all wanted to be Ya Ya's on that level. Now that I have read Little Alters Everywhere I am uncomfortable with the "romanticizing" of a woman who not only abused her children emotionally and physically but also sexually I see Ya Ya Clubs springing up around the country and I do not think these woman are aware that what they are advocating is out and out "child abuse".. A very unsettling read but a worthwhile one taken in context.

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Summary: great!
Review: i thought that this book was great! i never heard of Rebecca Wells and now that i have, i will run out and read Little Altars Everywhere. i only wish i had heard of her sooner. what Rosie O'Donnell said yesterday to her on her show is correct. she said "Rebecca, will you do me a favor? Go home and write a book will ya?" i thought that i would probably say the exact same things if i met rebecca wells. i think that she is a wonderful writer, and many have yet to discover her.

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Summary: This book was a real good read.
Review: I'd recommend this story to anyone waiting out a blizzard in North Dakota