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Summary: Beyond words fabulous!
Review: To each his own, but can't understand why some people hate this book. I read it last July, but this weekend at a girls getaway at my lake place my friend brought it & I was once again transported to that magic ya-ya land just by looking at the cover. These girls became so real to me last summer that seeing the book again it was sad, like I saw my best friend after a long, long absence. It's one of the best books I have ever read. I used to be an avid reader but menopause or something prevents me from sticking with a book to the end now. It is the only book I have finished in a year. I will never forget the Ya-yas. Hurry sequel!!!!!
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Summary: If you grew up in the South...
Review: You'll absolutely adore Divine Secrets as I did. I grew up in Alabama in the 1960's, and I could relate to many of the things through which Sidda went. The story is amazing and Rebecca Wells is a gifted author. Read Divine Secrets...you won't be able to put it down. It's a beautiful novel.
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Summary: It grabbed my attention in the title and didn't let go!
Review: I have to say "Ya Ya" was one of the best books I have read in a long time! I felt like I was the fifth Ya Ya. Although I am not from the generations that Vivi or even Sidda are from, I could really relate to each of the events. I believe Wells did an excellent job in creating these truly southern women. I have recommended it to all my gal pals, and I'm sure I'll read it again too!
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Summary: I love it!!!
Review: Don't you think it's really hard to get such great books these days. It's pratically like livn' with a bunch of Ya-yas as you go on... The Ya-yas where tremendous friends which teaches you to appreciate good friends and the bonding of the mother and daughter was so touching at the end was a masterpiece made. I particularly like the small little thingsa and rituals that the Ya-yas do were so true to life that many writers didn't bother to include in their books, these are the things that made us laugh and cry. I love the book!
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Summary: Excellent!!!
Review: Beautiful book
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Summary: remember how fun it was to be a child?
Review: I did not read the book-I listened to the audio version.If your childhood was filled with magic and dreams you too will enjoy this story. Even with the dysfunctional family (been there-done that)it was a fun book and nice to be reminded that no matter what life brings we can soar in sweet memories. Read and enjoy.
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Summary: Disappointing
Review: I'm glad I'm not alone in my assessment of this disappointingly mediocre novel. While the author has her moments, I reached the conclusion that she just isn't that great a writer. She certainly lacks something in the character-development department. I'll give it this much, though, the book held my interest. There's always something intriguing about stories that gives clues in the present to what occurred in the past. But the characters just didn't hold up. The Ya-Ya's behavior, especially as children and teenagers, was too unrealistic. Well-raised Catholic southern girls of their era didn't raise hell in public, or bath naked together as teenagers. And the character of Sidda was too exasperating for words. She couldn't marry the man of her dreams because she "didn't know what love is". Give me a break!! And if I read one more sentence about these woman boozing it up... It's a promising story that could have been much better in other hands. The best thing about it is it's wonderful title.
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Summary: I really know these women
Review: I don't know what word I should use, its not sexist or racist, but I think only a child of the south could really understand these women and where they come from. I recognize these charactors, I grew up with women like these charactors. Growing up in central and south Louisiana is like growing up in a different world. Especially the Catholic south. Sidda and I are of the same generation. Can any of us boomers ever really know our mothers? We didn't live through the times they did. We don't know what made them the women they are. This is the first book I have ever read that gave me the feel of what it must have been like for my mother growing up in the south of the 30's and 40's. My mother still has friends she made in grade school and I have pictures of mother and her friends sharing pregnancies and first children, just like the YaYas. As for the drinking, smoking, and spanking children, you may not like it but it was accepted in those days. Those were the times they lived in.
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Summary: Depth?
Review: Entertaining at times, easy read, but I am not recommending it unless I can get rid of my copy of the book. I sure would like to think Southern women have more depth. The ones I know do.
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Summary: Like having to read a novel version of the sitcom "Alice"
Review: I haven't read the other 300 reviews in here, but I found this book very hard to get through. Wells wants her adult Sidda to be screwed up, but she can't seem to escape the romance novel convention that says heroines have to be glamorously screwed-up, i.e. confused despite fabulous careers and dark, handsome, beautifully one-dimensional boyfriends. I was quickly bored with Sidda's problems. I hate Southern novels that are infused with a yee haw sensibility that feels close to Petticoat Junction than Faulkner, and this book is rife with moments of teeth-clenching cutsie-pie. Not my cup of molasses.
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