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Summary: Really Moving, I LOVED IT!!!!!!
Review: I just finished Little Altars and I feel very sad that it had to end. I couldn't put the book down but at the same time I found myself reading very slowly as to savor every word. I read YaYa's first and I'm glad I did because this book is a continuationINTO the lives of the Walker's.I think we all can relate to their family along with all their dysfunction since our families share some also. It is a book of revelations for Siddalee where she can accept her family for all of the good and bad and realize that it made her the person she is.We as adults can only hope to do the same. Although in Part 2 Vivi goes too far. I lost my empathetic feelings towards her since there are somethings that are unforgiveable! I hope Ms. Wells writes again I really Like her style!!!!!
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Summary: Read Little Altars Everywhere BEFORE The Ya-Ya Sisterhood!!
Review: Little Altars Everywhere is one of those books you feel enter your person as soon as you glimpse the first paragraph, and you don't want to put it down for fear of losing something of yourself when you do. It sensitively explores both male and female perspectives, on childhood as well as adulthood. It provides the backbone, and background, for Wells's Ya-Ya Sisterhood; it comes FIRST chronologically, and to appreciate it fully you want to read it before you read the Ya-Yas. If you haven't read either book yet, both are 100%, heartfelt recommendations, but read Little Altars first, and you're bound to devour The Ya-Ya Sisterhood too, to continue your connection to all of these wonderfully crazy ladies.
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Summary: A sober story of a dysfunctional family
Review: I read the Divine Secrets first and throughly enjoyed it. Then I read Little Altars and was shocked to see how truly dysfunctional this family was. Vivi in Divine Secrets, while addicted to pills and drink, was at least a somewhat sympathetic character. She was totally hideous and unlikeable in Little Altars. I would be interested in knowing if the author plans on writing a third volume on the Walker family.
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Summary: Little Altars a let down after Ya-Ya
Review: I read Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood first and loved it. Little Altars was a let down. It was depressing but I kept reading to get to "the fun part". I never found it. Read "Divine Secrets" and enjoy the memory without botching it up with "Little Altars".
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Summary: All encompassing - I laughed, I cried!
Review: Little Altars Everywhere is tender, passionate and extremely real! It is true southern humor with a universal appeal. I saw many of my family and friends is Siddalee's world!
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Summary: Soul Scraping Story
Review: Just finished LAE. At first, it read like a series of heartwarming stories about a nice childhood w/ some sauced parents. Suddenly, it all takes a very dark turn and this was a difficult transition. It became very depressing and dark. I enjoyed the writers wordsmithing. She is somewhat poetic. I will read DSOYYS because I hope to read that something good happens to these poor souls. Wells certainly managed to extract emotions from my gut (some that I would rather keep tucked away).
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Summary: Absorbing dysfunctional family short stories.
Review: I was amazed with each child and their memories of the family growing up in the South. Each one had something that drew me to them and made me care about them. Vivi was a woman driven, driven to be the best but became the worst. Something or someone haunts her and she never becomes capable of dealing with it. She is strange and perverse yet somewhat very likeable at times. I recommend the book as a good read but be prepared that things are not always as they seem--just like normal life. One never knows what goes on behind closed doors or in the minds of others. I look forward to more ya-ya books. Let the story continue--pleeeease.
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Summary: Rebecca Wells was not subtle enough with her setting names.
Review: My sister-in-law gave me this book, and I immediately began trying to identify the people and places of my hometown in Louisiana. Since I grew up in about the same time period as the setting of the novel, it wasn't difficult to begin identifying the characters. Ms. Wells should be very careful about revealing present day "real life" characters.
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Summary: IF YOU LIKED THE "YA-YA'S" SKIP THIS BOOK
Review: I read the "Ya-Ya's" and enjoyed it for the most part. However if I had read this book first I would never have picked up the second book! I was shocked to find out that Vivi had molested all of her children. How could R.W. have written a second book that made Vivi a fun likable character, when she was an awful person. I think that R.W. must have had a terrible childhood and a mother who was also incestious to write a book like this. Also the story was disjointed and boring. I no longer like the "ya-ya's" anymore because of this book.
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Summary: STARTED ON A PLANE, FINISHED IN MY HOMETOWN...
Review: I started reading this book on a 10 1/2 hour flight from Los Angeles to London. I bought Little Altars Everywhere and The Divine Secrets of Ya-Ya sisterhood at the same time. I instinctively read Little Altars Everywhere first, which is the best way to read these two books. Vivi Abbott Walker is truly the star, the others must be content to simply be in her orbit. The minute you feel you know the characters, they totally surprise you. I really liked that. Also, the way you see the family through the innocent eyes of a child and the battle torn eyes of an adult is brilliant. Wish I could write like that!
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