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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. Charming book...shows how women bond...light and an interesting read. (  )meadowmist | Jul 1, 2009 |   Meg Waite Clayton has definitely captured the essence of friendship among women and proved that while "blood may be thicker than water" you get to "pick" your friends while you "inherit" your relatives. We meet Linda, Ally, Kath, Brett and Frankie, the narrator, during 1969 in Palo Alto, California where they are all young married women. All but Ally have children and in fact, that is was attracts Ally to the group in the first place as she observed the others in the park each week with their kids. Slowly, this group of women decide they should meet every week to write. Write for writing's sake, you know, that burning desire to release that one "great book" that each of us has in us. The current events of the time have influence on the course that some of them take, but others are simply curious sideline observers. At one point in the book, I almost left the women in frustration, because this had been a prime time in my life. I was a young woman, not married, but on my own and experiencing first hand many of the issues i.e., Equal Rights for Women, Vietnam, Peace Movement, Racism that they wavered on because of the values that had been instilled in them by their families. I am glad to say that I hung in there with the "sisters" and they grew, matured, and learned that they could choose a different course than their parents, and the world would not come to an end. The depth of the friendship and bonds that developed for these women was heart wrenching at times, and heartwarming at others. This is a book that can be enjoyed by any generation but it is a wonderful read down memory lane for those of us that came of age during the 60's. (  )Donura1 | Jun 24, 2009 | excellent story to read. Frankie, Linda, Kath, Brett and Ally find themselves meeting every Wed. at a part in Calif. It starts with kids playing, then women confiding and then trying to write. The kids grow, lives have turmoils and the women become best of friends. Very very good. ( )hammockqueen | May 23, 2009 | I plan to read this one summer day by the beach JulsOnMars | Apr 10, 2009 |  I probably would have liked this book better, if not for the fact that I started reading _Angry Housewives Eating Bon Bons_ soon after starting to listen to this one. AHEB is soooooo similar to The Wednesday Sisters that I spent less time focused on the characters' lives than on how ridiculously (and eerily) similar the books and characters were. ***Beware spoilers below!*** Set in the sixties with Robert Kennedy's assassination one of the first bonding events in women's friendship? Check. Woman who's boisterous, says anything and unashamedly loves sex? Check. Ironically (I'm rolling my eyes), that sexy woman's husband is cheating on her? Check. Opinionated woman's lib-er, who happens to be a fitness fanatic? Check. Ironically (ditto), that incredibly health-conscious woman gets cancer? Check. Woman who wants desperately to have a child, while suffering through miscarriages and/or other deaths? Check. Woman does get a child (differing circumstances for each), who happens to be of mixed race, causing the expected prejudices during the sixties? Check. Ugh. The characters ended up seeming trite and predictable. I was annoyed by both. Sigh. (  )kayceel | Mar 11, 2009 | 0.095 seconds to build listing
Amazon.com Product Description (ISBN 0345502825, Hardcover)Friendship, loyalty, and love lie at the heart of Meg Waite Clayton’s beautifully written, poignant, and sweeping novel of five women who, over the course of four decades, come to redefine what it means to be family.For thirty-five years, Frankie, Linda, Kath, Brett, and Ally have met every Wednesday at the park near their homes in Palo Alto, California. Defined when they first meet by what their husbands do, the young homemakers and mothers are far removed from the Summer of Love that has enveloped most of the Bay Area in 1967. These “Wednesday Sisters” seem to have little in common: Frankie is a timid transplant from Chicago, brutally blunt Linda is a remarkable athlete, Kath is a Kentucky debutante, quiet Ally has a secret, and quirky, ultra-intelligent Brett wears little white gloves with her miniskirts. But they are bonded by a shared love of both literature–Fitzgerald, Eliot, Austen, du Maurier, Plath, and Dickens–and the Miss America Pageant, which they watch together every year. As the years roll on and their children grow, the quintet forms a writers circle to express their hopes and dreams through poems, stories, and, eventually, books. Along the way, they experience history in the making: Vietnam, the race for the moon, and a women’s movement that challenges everything they have ever thought about themselves, while at the same time supporting one another through changes in their personal lives brought on by infidelity, longing, illness, failure, and success. Humorous and moving, The Wednesday Sisters is a literary feast for book lovers that earns a place among those popular works that honor the joyful, mysterious, unbreakable bonds between friends. (retrieved from Amazon Fri, 24 Apr 2009 07:58:22 -0400) The first test round has been closed. Visit the Open Shelves Classification group for details. |
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