The Weird Sisters
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Add a SummaryAn interesting story but I found it a bit contrived; the father is a Shakespeare prof at a small college and there are a number of references to Shakespeare's works throughout. His daughters are all named for Shakespeare characters. The youngest daughter stretches credulity with her vagabond wanderlust—and pregnancy—and the way she then comes home to a mother undergoing chemo for breast cancer. The three daughters are an interesting study; it would have been interested for the author to have developed the parent/child relationships more.
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Add a Quotewhen she discovered how to sneak out of the house on Friday and Saturday nights and follow the sounds of hysteria and beer, she had learned to flirt through the haze of smoke and noise, how to kiss without making any promises, and how to reel a man across the room with only a look.
when I am waiting in line, at the gym, on the train, eating lunch, I am not complaining about the wait/staring into space/admiring myself in available reflective surfaces? I am _reading_!
she’s with Lyssie (short for Lysistrata – whenever we complain about our unfashionable names, we remember that we could have been the daughters of a classics professor)
Cordy was sorely underprepared for the fact that her smile and her ability to get an entire room full of Shakespearean scholars to do the Macarena (true story) would not necessarily guarantee her perennial success.
This is our mother. The four horsemen of the Apocalypse could be bearing down hard and fast upon us, and she would want to make sure our father had eaten. So he wouldn’t, you know, get hungry in the afterlife or something.
She read her way through Nancy Drew and the Hardy Boys, and looked for clues everywhere she went, noting them down in her _Harriet the Spy_ notebook, though she found their unwillingness to add up to anything a perennial disappointment.
she knew it was crazy and stupid, and completely unlike her, and conceivably that is why she agreed to go along with it.
"There is no problem that a library card can't solve." Great quote from THE WEIRD SISTERS by Eleanor Brown. twitter.com/@eleanorwrites
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Add a CommentAnother cottage read. It isn't a challenge and would make a good Hallmark movie.
Early on I almost gave up on this novel. I found the first person plural narration awkward and distracting. The characters drew me in, though, and I kept turning the pages to see what would happen to them. I was charmed by the end of it.
could not get into this book.
An enjoyable read and I enjoyed the Shakesperian theme throughout. Look forward to more books by this author.
Three sisters return to their childhood home in order to care for their sick mother, bringing lots of unresolved issues with them. I enjoyed the family's love of books but I found the first person plural narrative confusing and it kept me from really liking this book.
Really enjoyed this debut novel. I'm sure many authors like reading, but none I recall have ever captured so well how those of us who love reading truly feel about it. Shakespearean quotes did not feel forced; interesting use of second person.
Yawn. Boring chick lit.
This has all the components needed to make a terrific comfy read: university town, book-loving family, great coffee shop and yes even baked bread. It also brought back many nostalgic feelings of growing up in a family of sisters that also included a mother's battle with breast cancer. Family dynamics are always fascinating - and Eleanor Brown made this study a very believable one.
A fine debut novel about three grown-up sisters and their parents in a small town in Ohio who find themselves under the same roof again, and realize that change is called for.