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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) |
Eleanor Brown
Hardcover | Pages: 320 pages Rating: 3.36 | 43347 Users | 6358 Reviews
Describe Appertaining To Books The Weird Sisters
| 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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Watch a video A major new talent tackles the complicated terrain of sisters, the power of books, and the places we decide to call home. There is no problem that a library card can't solve. 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. 10 Hours and 26 Minutes Imprint: Penguin Audio Genre: Fiction - Family Life - General Release Date: January 20, 2011Rating Appertaining To Books The Weird Sisters
Ratings: 3.36 From 43347 Users | 6358 ReviewsEvaluate Appertaining To Books The Weird Sisters
Is every book set in Ohio?This is the second book in a row that I have read set here in Ohio. The first one,Knockemstiff, was most excellent; Weird Sisters Im sorry to say was shit. This book was just, beyond words, sucky. Gack! I even finished it because I wasnt going to let it beat me.Heres the clever premise. Three sisters by the names of Bianca, Cordelia , and Rose (short for Roselyn? I just dont care) are born to a family who cant stop reading..ever. They are born to parents whose names II can't even finish this piece of crap book; it's so juvenile it's insulting. Clearly Eleanor Brown just took some extended writing class and thinks she's an author because she's using every cliche and plot technique to prolong a story that's just not interesting. Here are the reasons I know she's an amateur writer: 1) She includes insignificant details that are supposed to make her characters round but really have nothing at all to do with the characters - why is it important to talk about
When I was in my 20s, for every three "literary" works I read, I would read one mystery and one romance novel, the latter for pure escapsism. When I began The Weird Sisters, I was hopeful that it could an ideal combination of fine writing but a fun/easier read. Indeed, Eleanor Brown has beautiful phrases and expressions sprinkled generously througout this book. Unfortunately, it just isn't enough to make The Weird Sisters work for me. In talking about a character's pre-determined fate vs what
I am dying of boredom trying to read this book. Life is too short to waste on this book.
This book sucked. It's about 3 sisters who all end up moving back home to "help" their mother while she's battling breast cancer. But they all moved back home at the same time because (as they will readily admit) they are failures. How nice for their mother. The oldest, Rose, is an obnoxious know-it-all who's convinced no one can do anything without her. Everyone else is a total screw up and she (and she alone) will save the day. She's ruining her life in the process but she likes being a martyr
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
Another unexpected read that I opened by chance and it hooked me, this tale of the three sisters from a reasonably normal small college town family who take quite different life paths only to reunite when thei mother's illness and some major happenings in their life (pregnancy, marriage but also messed up career and heartbreak) brings them back to their home.A fast and engaging read with well drawn characters
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