Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood: A Novel

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Summary: Bravo, Rebacca Wells!
Review: This book was reccomended to me by my mother and this book truly shows that "mom knows best"! I automatically fell in love with the ya-ya's and their fun loving attitudes, as well as their painstaking love for each other and their "petite ya-ya's". I found it hard to put down , and very rarely did as I explored the strange mother and daughter adventures and conflicts. This will without a doubt become a favorite of mine!!

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Summary: fantastic portrayal of sisterhood...
Review: I work at a small gift shop with an entirely female staff--we passed this book around between us like candy! An amazing tale of sisterhood and mother-daughter relationships, at times I cried for a whole chapter and then laughed my way through the next!

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Summary: get your hankies out folks
Review: If you are from a crazy family you will feel normal after this book.I stayed up all night and cried and laughed.In the end you will want your own ya ya sisterhood.I give this 10 stars .

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Summary: Very moving! A Friendship Book!
Review: This was a GREAT book! After I finished the first chapters, I made my best friends go out and buy it so that they could read it. My three best friends and I are almost exactly like the characters in the book! It's a little bit like Steel Magnolias, but not half as sad. It makes you feel that as long as you have girlfriends who love you, you can get through anything together. I am home for the summer from college, and I have been missing my best friends. After we all read this book together, it made it seem that we were all together again and not at four separate ends of the country!

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Summary: SUPERB!
Review: Having family in Louisiana, I was instantly captivated of how Rebecca Wells told her story in such a way that brought me back to the big houses with the porches and the "hey y'all" accents. This is such a great book for mothers and daughters and friends. Little Alters Everywhere is also a great book if you want some more of Siddalee and the rest of the Ya-Yas. After I finished this book, I wanted some Ya-Ya's of my own. A great, great classic and real book.

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Summary: Divine Indeed
Review: Reading this book made me think about my mother's life. It made me realize that by the time I met my mother she had lived 22 years that had absolutely nothing to do with me. She had a different last name...dreams about what and who she wanted to be and struggles much like I have in my very own life. The struggles most of us have in our 20's. In Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood Siddalee Walker learns these things about her mother's life though a scrapbook that carries the same name as the book. Vivi Walker and the Ya-Yas (her three dearest friends who basically make up her family) consider themselves the daughters of the moon. A lost indian tribe that plays by their own rules. Unfortunately, Vivi had more than the normal struggles and they deeply affected Sidda's childhood and adult life. I must say that although I enjoyed this book parts of me really wanted Sidda to confront her mother about the way her and her siblings were treated in childhood. I felt that Sidda was to accepting to a woman who was abusive. It made me very grateful for the mother I do have. It made me want to learn her divine secrets.

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Summary: Brilliant, yet somewhat disturbing!
Review: I was drawn to the book because of the cover! I thought it would be a great light-hearted escape! Well, it was that but so much more!! I was surprised at how easily Wells combined wonderful light-hearted stories that take us all back to our youth with the horrible tragedies that happen to so many children in this world! What a superb job of bringing through a positive message of love!! I was truly captivated!

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Summary: I live where the book is set.
Review: I live in the small Louisianan town where Rebecca Wells grew up and went to school. In fact, if I look out my window right now I can see the very house that she bases much of her writings. I was intrigued by this book, not only because the story line is captivating, but also because it is based- somewhat- on reality. There are Ya-Yas here, but they call themselves He-Hes. Believe it or not, many of the people mentioned in her books are alive and well today.

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Summary: Captiviating tale of understanding personal relationships
Review: After reading The Divine Secrets I am tempted to buy copies for all of my friends and have them read it. As a junior in High School, I read this book as a class project, and as most juniors, I was dreading it. From the time I finished the first page until I set the book down as I read the last page I was captivated by the story of this family. Not only the Walkers, but the Ya Ya family. A must read for all ages (well there are a few questionable parts for younger readers) The only downfall was the semi-predictable ending. ENJOY and HAPPY READING

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Summary: A true vision of the South filled with beautiful prose.
Review: Divine Secrets started off slowly for me. However I soon became fully entrenched in the picture painted so accurately by the author. I am from the South, and I could realistically perceive every action that occurred. Many of the reviews claim that this book is nonsense and fluff. Yet, I have witnessed the cotillions, the afternoon bloody marys, screened-in porches and the confederate uniforms, etc. I was rendered speechless by the descriptive nature of the prose. It was the first book I have read in some time that was truly an escape. It had my complete attention. Literature does not have to be heavy and morose to be brilliant. It does, however, have to tell a story of humanity. And YaYa excels on this level.