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Summary: Only the date of issue saves this trash
Review: To term this work dreadful may still be too complimentary. Here we have a work that tries to be Tennessee Williams and ends up with the depth of Green Acres (though, sadly, without its humour.) Scanning the reviews on this board, however, made me realise how it is selling so well - mental illness (real or counterfeit), exploring the "dysfunctional familes" and "chidlhood memories" and trite psychobabble are so popular that their adherents would give anything of the genre the status of Macbeth. Those reviewers who became defensive or accused those with contrary views of being "in denial" and the like had me laughing aloud - the book, which deals not with the trendy but with the truly sick, was far too tragic to do so.
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Summary: This One had many Memorable Moments!
Review: This book was part funny, part heart-breaking and all interesting. I was hooked! I thoroughly enjoyed all the characters and their hijinks, especially the Ya-Ya's, whose sisterhood was truly worthy of some jealousy. It made me long for the days when my friends and I used to hang out, loyal to one another and protective of each other. I completely loved the Ya-Ya's! ~*^*~
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Summary: Laugh Out Loud Funny! Cry in Your Wine Heart-Breaking!
Review: YaYa Sisterhood certainly touches on anyone with a complicated mother-daughter relationship. I know too many friends (including myself) who knows all to well the feeling of eternally being 12 yrs. old in your mother's eyes! The relationships depicted are real - including those within the family, and with the closest friends. Definitely worth it!
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Summary: More a 3 and a half rating.
Review: Either you love or hate this read and I only liked it. I think it was over-rated and over-hyped. I enjoyed the overall read, but some chapters made me go right to sleep and dragged on to the point that I was reading just to get through and finish. Half of the chapters in this book are worth reading. The funnest part are the sultry descriptions of the south, childhood descriptions and bits and pieces of Lousiana. I laughed and rolled my eyes alot while reading this story. The Ya-Yas were fluffy and so full of themselves. I know REAL people whose lives are more substantial and interesting than the Ya-Ya's. Worth the read to later bag on it. Don't buy, but borrow this book.
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Summary: A fairytale for feminists
Review: Ah, the Ya-Ya Sisterhood. Don't y'all wish you could be ya-ya's? But realistic? Give me a break! Somewhere in another dimension perhaps are women friends like the ya-ya's. And the ya-ya husbands? Quick, my fan! My smelling salts! In a perfect world this is how women would behave toward one another: no gossip,no back stabbing, no cattiness & no standing up your best friend for a guy you just met in a bar. We all loved this book because we all wish this were how it was or at least any one of us with a feminist bone in her body. Oh yes, those ya-ya husbands. Where were they when the ya-ya's were lounging creekside avec les petites ya-ya's? If they were real life husbands of that era they'd be home fuming that supper wasn't on the table yet. The plot of Sidda's romance was certainly contrived, trite & just plain lame, but think of it as a means to an end. It gives us an excuse for those lovely ya-ya stories which, although more fairytale than realism, give us something to strive for in our dealings with the women friends we love. The mother/daughter relationship in this story & Sidda's need to know what motivated her mother started me thinking about how we never really get to know our mothers as people. Once they were girls like us, being shaped by their experiences, for better or worse & maybe passing on some of their warped perceptions to us also. And so we pass our problems down from mother to daughter as well as out delights, & few of us ever gain the insight to stop the cycle of abuse or alcoholism or just plain warped perceptions before it carries on from mother to daughter to granddaughter. So why did I enjoy this book so much? Maybe I just needed a break from reality. I loved the Louisiana flavor & especially loved the thought that there might be somewhere, sometime, a group of true women friends like the ya-ya's. Oh well, maybe in my next life.
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Summary: An inspirational story of love and loss...
Review: I actually think I was jealous of the Ya-Ya's. I would love to have such an awesome friendship. I loved this book so much, I had to have my mother pick up "Little Altars Everywhere" right away. THis story attracts all ages- trust me, I am 13 and absolutely loved it. READ THIS BOOK!
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Summary: Dreadful!
Review: This inane book could only be a bestseller in this age of "self-help" and psycho-babble. Just as one today may find a book she found intensely relevant in the 1960s and blush at its nonsensical character, this dusty volume will be one to retrieve thirty years hence ... and wonder what peculiar turn of mind made it seem an exposition of friendship, much less a humourous work.
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Summary: Not as true to Louisiana life as some wish
Review: I am a native Louisianian (born and reared in Baton Rouge), and was really looking forward to this book. What a disappointment! Rebecca Wells has taken every cliche about Louisiana and the deep South and rolled them all into a not-so-very-well-written novel. It reads more like a screenplay than a novel -- similar to, but not nearly as bad as "The Horse Whisperer," which wins my vote for all-time worst book I've ever read. My family background is Cajun (my family tree is traced back to Nova Scotia in 1630) and I have not experienced the Acadian influence in central Louisiana, as described in this novel, where it purports to take place. Despite what Yankees and others not native to this area may wish, its scenes and characters are unrealistic. If you visit Louisiana and really want to experience the Acadian culture, don't go to Alexandria! Instead, move south towards Eunice, Ville Platte, Church Point, Lafayette, Opelousas, Morgan City, Houma and Thibodaux. Even New Orleans is not Cajun -- it's Creole, and a magnificent blend of French, Spanish, African and Caribbean cultures. And don't believe what you read in this silly book!
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Summary: A book to stir all of your emotions and memories
Review: I laughed; I cried. I was touched by the powerful emotion that Ms. Wells projected. This is a book about each and every one of us as women. It's our story. You will be taken back to your own childhood memories. Ms. Wells writes with such genius that you actually hear the child speaking to you.
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Summary: Simply Divine
Review: It is magical to actually read about bayou and hear it, smell it and feel the hot, sticky Louisiana air. I thought that Wells was pretty good at creating those pictures, as far as characters go, I thought Vivis behavior was a bit too "gala" at the times for a small southern town. Sidda made me think for a second how come she didn't know how to love, and I'm still wondering,.... Images, pictures, sounds and conditions of the scenery were very well created. I think it is one of the better books that I read so far this year. Shouldn't I mention that this book is a National Bestseller?
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