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Loading... The Weird Sistersby Eleanor Brown
  
No current Talk conversations about this book. What a bore. Nothing really happened. A whole lot of fluff and childhood flashbacks and memories and odd complex descriptions and metaphors that ruined the flow of a stiff and boring book. Would have been 30 pages worth of a story long without all the boring narrative. Did not enjoy style at all. I have no idea how anyone could find this pleasurable. (  ) Shelby-Lamb-Author | Jan 17, 2017 |  It's a sisterly drama that is enjoyable enough, but could have used a bit more life. (  ) Birdo82 | Jan 16, 2017 | Just okay. The ending is too pat, and Brown could have cut out whole sections in which she spells out the point of the previous scene. The characters are appealing, though, and it held my interest. ( ) gayla.bassham | Nov 7, 2016 | Rose, Bean, and Cordy - the Andreas sisters (AKA the Weird Sisters) - are incredibility easy to relate to (at least for me). In fact, I'm thinking of adopting their family motto as my own - there is no problem a library card can't solve. And for about two-thirds of the novel, I was convinced Rose was some kind of literacy version of myself. Anyone who likes books should read this book! (  ) wagner.sarah35 | Sep 17, 2016 | Lovely warm story of a family with three sisters. Mom is fighting cancer and all three are under the same roof again. Their personalities are so well developed by the author that you feel like they are all good friends. Love this book that I picked up at a campground. (  ) LivelyLady | Aug 31, 2016 |
 "Indeed, The Weird Sisters is a book worth celebrating. Because their father is a renowned Shakespearean scholar, the Andreas family communicates largely through the words of the Bard. It is not unusual for them to drop Shakespearean quotes into a conversation about, say, wedding rings or what to eat for breakfast."  There are times when the sisters are exasperated by the burden imposed on them. “Sometimes we had the overwhelming urge to grab our father by the shoulders and shake him until the meaning of his obtuse quotations fell from his mouth like loosened teeth,” they say. Readers may sometimes feel similarly about Ms. Brown but more often appreciate the good sense and good humor that keep her story buoyant. She does have storytelling talent. Or, to quote one of the Weird Sisters quoting you-know-who: “This is a gift that I have; simple, simple.”  Eleanor Brown's likable debut novel is the story of three grown sisters who return home when their mother falls ill.....The first third of the book moves slowly, with too much explanation of who the sisters are, and too much insistence on how different each is from the other, and a sort of bulky setting-up of their rather implausible situations, and -- enough, already! Get the story moving! And when it does start moving, it is a delight.
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Unwillingly brought together to care for their ailing mother, three sisters who were named after famous Shakespearean characters discover that everything they have been avoiding may prove more worthwhile than expected.
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