Eleanor Brown
Hardcover | Pages: 320 pages Rating: 3.36 | 43347 Users | 6358 Reviews
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| Title | : | The Weird Sisters |
| Author | : | Eleanor Brown |
| Book Format | : | Hardcover |
| Book Edition | : | First Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 320 pages |
| Published | : | January 20th 2011 by Amy Einhorn Books/Putnam (first published January 1st 2011) |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Audiobook. Family. Literary Fiction |
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The Andreas family is one of readers. Their father, a renowned Shakespeare professor who speaks almost entirely in verse, has named his three daughters after famous Shakespearean women. When the sisters return to their childhood home, ostensibly to care for their ailing mother, but really to lick their wounds and bury their secrets, they are horrified to find the others there. See, we love each other. We just don't happen to like each other very much. But the sisters soon discover that everything they've been running from-one another, their small hometown, and themselves-might offer more than they ever expected.
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Imprint: Penguin Audio
Genre: Fiction - Family Life - General
Release Date: January 20, 2011
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| Original Title: | The Weird Sisters |
| ISBN: | 0399157220 (ISBN13: 9780399157226) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Characters: | Rose, Cordelia, Bianca |
| Literary Awards: | Colorado Book Award for Literary Fiction (2012) |
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Ratings: 3.36 From 43347 Users | 6358 ReviewsEvaluate Containing Books The Weird Sisters
Absolutely pitch perfect. (I would give this ten out of five stars if I could.)This is the first book I have read that uses a first-person-plural narrative style, and it was so completely appropriate; you get the sense that this book came together with these three sisters sitting around a Pensieve after the events of this book have transpired, looking at them playing out again, and dictating the story to the author, who has set up shop with a typewriter in the adjacent corner of the room.This is the story of three sisters who have returned to their Ohio home town to help care for their mother who's receiving treatment for breast cancer. But it turns out that their simultaneous return home is more coincidental than prompted by desire to nurse their mother. All three are escaping their failures in life, all of which are different. The sisters themselves are all very much different from each other, the oldest a controlling homebody, the middle one a promiscuous spendthrift, and the
My TBR pile has grown ridiculously huge of late (my house is hoarding half my public library's precious cargo). Despite this ever-increasing mountain of unread promises, my reading pace has proportionately slowed. At a time when I should be blazing through the pages of every book I pick up, I find myself smelling the proverbial roses. The faster I burn through a book, the more quickly I am to forget it anyway, even the real gems. Plus, life just gets in the way sometimes and it's been doing a
Up front, I have to say that when I discovered this novel, I went into it with the truest of intentions. I mean, I come from a family with three sisters--I'm the youngest and I know a little bit about Shakespeare--happen to love Othello and The Taming of the Shrew. But this story just seemed to go into places that I couldn't get into and didn't much care for. Only real quick, this wouldn't be a 'classic' Novelwit2000 review, if I didn't bring up the thing with the names. I thought it was a novel
Three sisters, three different outlooks on life, three different opinions about working, three different attitudes concerning just about everything, but they all had the same reason for coming home.....their mother needed help because of her breast cancer. Rose was the practical, organized sister, Bean was the attorney turned thief, and Cordy was still the spoiled child she always was. They all had some secret or concern as they returned to their childhood home. Their childhood home was one of
Poor Eleanor Brown. I think from reading other reviews she unfairly gets a bad rap. Yes it's true this book is is not high class literature but it is an interesting take on birth order roles and interactions of siblings. It's also true that the characters often are self absorbed malcontents (as one good read reviewer put it) but their struggles, while they may seem superficial to some, feel genuine and their pain real. Also I think the idea of three sibling coming home to care for their ailing
This book started out great! I loved the quoting Shakespeare and the story itself told by all three sisters. After a while I found the writing annoying. It wasn't always easy to understand what Brown was trying to say. I persevered and by the middle I just wanted to know what happened. I was relieved when I finally finished! I felt that this was basically a very juvenile story and I most certainly would not recommend it to anyone. By the way, this is the first time I am taking the time to review
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