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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
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| Title | : | The Weird Sisters |
| Author | : | Eleanor Brown |
| Book Format | : | Hardcover |
| Book Edition | : | Special 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.
10 Hours and 26 Minutes
Imprint: Penguin Audio
Genre: Fiction - Family Life - General
Release Date: January 20, 2011
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Ratings: 3.36 From 43347 Users | 6358 ReviewsWrite-Up Epithetical Books The Weird Sisters
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 ailingWhat bibliophile could resist The Weird Sisters, a story about three book-loving but otherwise very different sisters all named for characters from Shakespeare? Ive succumbed to its charms twice, reading the book in 2011 and listening to the audio version in 2014.My review from 2011:I loved this satisfying, hopeful, intelligent book from start to finish. Its a sort of belated coming of age story about three twentysomething, verging on thirtysomething, sisters who grew up in the small college
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
What bibliophile could resist The Weird Sisters, a story about three book-loving but otherwise very different sisters all named for characters from Shakespeare? Ive succumbed to its charms twice, reading the book in 2011 and listening to the audio version in 2014.My review from 2011:I loved this satisfying, hopeful, intelligent book from start to finish. Its a sort of belated coming of age story about three twentysomething, verging on thirtysomething, sisters who grew up in the small college
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
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.
I really wanted to like this book, but when I found myself putting it down time after time I knew I was kidding myself. First, the sisters were not really weird. They were immature, self-centered, mean, shallow and undeserving. Having five sisters of my own, I really did not identify with any of the characters or relationships in the book. Eventually each sister just got on my nerves. I could see the ending from a mile away. The book was packed with gimmicks.Relationships between sisters can be
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