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Books Read in 2013 (639) Great Audiobooks (31) » 5 more No current Talk conversations about this book. I liked this book except I thought is was going to have a different ending! (The mom survives cancer). It was a quick read and I was shocked at how the sisters were so dysfunctional even though they came from very intelligent parents. They both dealt with childhood neglect in their own way.  camplakejewel | Sep 14, 2017 |  As the middle of 3 sisters (relatively speaking), I kept trying to figure out how similar or different my family is from this family. There was the sister who was an embezzler & fashion hound; the sister who was prim, responsible, professor; the sister who was a footloose hippie. However, our father was not a Shakespeare devotee. (  ) juniperSun | Aug 21, 2017 | The idea was intriguing -- the story of three sisters reunited in their small, hometown --- but I found myself perplexed, and unsettled, with the narrative point-of-view. It wasn't until I finished the novel and read the back-of-the-book author interview that I understood it was first person plural. (  ) dcmr | Jul 4, 2017 | A story of three sisters and their family drama after their mother is diagnosed with cancer. Not bad but kind of boring. I tried to make it more fun for myself by imagining the three characters as played by the three sisters from Downton Abbey (Rose=Edith, Bean=Mary, Cordy=Sibyl) but I started skimming because it just didn't hold my interest. (  ) sansmerci | Jun 28, 2017 | I really enjoyed this book. (  ) INorris | Jun 8, 2017 |
 "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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