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No current Talk conversations about this book. I really enjoyed this book. (  ) INorris | Jun 8, 2017 |  Weird Sisters by Eleanor Brown turned out to be a surprisingly good book. I don't usually read chick lit and so had put off listening to this one for a long time and, honestly, had set the bar quite low for this title. This was a pleasant surprise when I did get around to it. This is a story of three sisters who love each other, but don't want to spend the rest of their lives in close proximity. Circumstances, however, have other plans, and the sisters find themselves all back at home living with their parents due to one thing or another. All of them use their mother's cancer and subsequent illness as the excuse, but they are back because they have unfinished business with their siblings. How this quandary is resolved is the story, and the author does a nice job in the telling. The narrator for this recorded version was also very good and did a great job of bringing this twist on the genre to life. It was a great commute book. And, I loved all the Shakespeare quotes and references. (  ) benitastrnad | Apr 16, 2017 | Just okay. Struggled to finish it. Didn't like the 1st person narrative as all three sisters. (  ) MicheleMG | Feb 1, 2017 | 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 |
 "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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