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Ship to an address. Pick up in store. To see if pickup is available, select a store. Find In Store. Not sold in stores. Prices and offers may vary in store. Learn more about plum PLUS. The beloved New York Times bestseller from acclaimed author Eleanor Brown about three sisters who love each other, but just don''t happen to like each other very much. Three sisters have returned to their childhood home, reuniting the eccentric Andreas family.

Here, books are a passion there is no problem a library card can''t solve and TV is something other people watch. Their father—a professor of Shakespeare who speaks almost exclusively in verse—named them after the Bard''s heroines. It''s a lot to live up to. The sisters each have a hard time communicating with their parents and their lovers, but especially with one another. And as that story goes on, Ferris cleverly whittles down who the narrator s might be. Here, there is no such resolution--the author just decided to use the second person when referring to the characters collectively.

It seems like nothing more than an affectation. These are the two embellishments that are meant to distinguish this otherwise ordinary story of adult children coming home. The reason for their homecoming is not Christmas, but their mother's breast cancer treatments, which earns the novel another check on the book club list. And if I weren't already annoyed by this book's pretensions, the author decided to throw in a librarian character.

One of the sisters, who had hitherto distinguished herself as an alcoholic flirt, an adulterer, and an inept embezzler from the small law firm where she worked as a secretary, loved the library as a child, and the librarian suggests that she take over while the older woman recovers from hip replacement surgery.

The sister protests that she's unqualified, and the librarian says, "It's hardly rocket science, dear. I imagine that the author meant this as a loving tribute to the librarians who taught her to love reading, but really, with fans like these, who needs enemies? Aug 03, Trudi rated it liked it Shelves: books-about-books , mothers , prose-that-sings , twss , modern-lit , , rusa-reads , all-in-the-family , friendship-women.

My TBR pile has grown ridiculously huge of late my house is hoarding half my public library's precious cargo. Despite this ever-increasing mountain of unread promises, my reading pace has proportionately slowed. At a time when I should be blazing through the pages of every book I pick up, I find myself smelling the proverbial roses.

The faster I burn through a book, the more quickly I am to forget it anyway, even the real gems. Plus, life just gets in the way sometimes and it's been doing a da My TBR pile has grown ridiculously huge of late my house is hoarding half my public library's precious cargo. Plus, life just gets in the way sometimes and it's been doing a darn good job of pulling me away from the last few books I've picked up.

This one I was more than happy to spend a whole week with, sneaking short sweet moments with it every chance I got. Nothing really happens in this book, but it hums along at a wonderful pace. How could I not be pulled into a story about sisters and the dynamics of small town life, that celebrates books, the Bard, and new beginnings.

As Rose, Bean and Cordy show us, no matter how much a life seems utterly derailed, it's never too late to start over. Quite often only through complete failure can we find our way to where we're supposed to be.

If that all sounds a little too touchy-feely, hippy-do for you, I won't lie -- it is touchy-feely, hippy-do -- but it's a touchy-feely, hippy-do that's wrapped in staggeringly gorgeous prose and turns of phrase. I nearly drove my boyfriend crazy following him around the house to recite certain passages. I just couldn't resist, Brown uses language that's meant to be read aloud.

I'm a zombie-loving girl who needed a break from bleak dystopias and nerve-jangling apocalypses. This book totally fit the bill. Sep 15, Layla Strohl rated it liked it. Poor Eleanor Brown. I think from reading other reviews she unfairly gets a bad rap.

Yes it's true this book is is not high class literature but it is an interesting take on birth order roles and interactions of siblings. It's also true that the characters often are self absorbed malcontents as one good read reviewer put it but their struggles, while they may seem superficial to some, feel genuine and their pain real.

Also I think the idea of three sibling coming home to care for their ailing m Poor Eleanor Brown. Also I think the idea of three sibling coming home to care for their ailing mother would in fact cause all the tension, conflict, jealousies to boil over. Haven't we all at some point been home for the holidays and 48 hours in find ourselves back to being a moody teenager infighting with siblings over whose the favorite, who takes the most responsibly, and who is always able to get away with murder.

I know it happens in my house. So to me the Weird sisters represent a true family that may not be completely prepared, mentally or physically, to deal with their sick mother, let alone deal with each other, but they try and fail and try again, and thats how many families work, and there is nothing weird about that. Shelves: read-in , audiobooky.

Oh book how I hated thee. Let me count the ways. One detail that bothered me greatly was that these girls were constantly reading, but never does the author tell us what they are reading. I like books about books about books. A book about books this was not. Then there was the disappointing fact that these sisters were in no way weird. They WERE banal, cliche, boring, trite, annoying, and unrealistic.

First we have Rose the stuffy, plain, type-A eldest sister who just needs to learn to give up h Oh book how I hated thee. First we have Rose the stuffy, plain, type-A eldest sister who just needs to learn to give up her dreams of having a career so that she can move on to much more important things like romance.

As soon as she can let go of those unladylike old-maidish dreams of hers WOW she can become a totally different person. Ta Da! She can be a happy housewife with new interests like dropping in to a tai-chi class and living with her perfect husband far far away from that annoying family of hers.

I would want to get away too. The other main characters Cordy and Bean are equally hate-able. Bean the stealing slut and Cordy the spacy hippy ho-bag. Luckily in Barnwell where this book takes place, men are just idealistic receptacles where the crazy thirty-something women of the world can dump their crappy personalities and find fulfillment and meaning. Yuck, barf, gag-me-with-a-spoon. I give this book one star because some of the references to the Immortal Bard were interesting and helpful in my goodreads trivia.

Also it gets points for the use of first person plural narrative style. That was a bit fresh. View all 3 comments. Feb 03, AennA rated it really liked it Shelves: love-love-love-it. A feel-good book, something that will burn your heart with affection to the characters, and at the end will warm your heart with its story. The story is simple - three sisters who were reunited in their home town to aid their ailing mother.

There's nothing fancy about the plot, except when you started to read it. What I love about the book is how expected each moment can be, yet there is a dash of twist in each way the story was told. Each sisters has their own story, which they tried to ran away A feel-good book, something that will burn your heart with affection to the characters, and at the end will warm your heart with its story. Each sisters has their own story, which they tried to ran away from, and they found refuge in their old home, where their childhood and fondest, simplest memories started and remains.

Being the youngest of a sisterhood of 5, I find the story close to my heart. I understand how hard it can be for the characters to have siblings and argue for attention. Fortunately for me, I'm the youngest, so it's not that hard to seek attention and affection.

I wouldn't talk much about the characters, since the reader has to discover each characters weakness and strength to appreciate their story. I love how the characters seems to be real, they aren't perfect, they're just like any ordinary human beings we get to meet everyday.

I love the simple but real dramas, the angst, and the pain of each character. If you love your family, or even if you don't, which I also doubt, you'll find this book a heartwarming read. After reading it, I found myself thanking God for sending me 4 obnoxious yet supportive older sisters. View all 6 comments. Feb 10, Tiffany PSquared rated it liked it Shelves: reading-challenge , bookmooch-giveaways.

Because sisters' secrets are swords. Bean, whose New York aspirations have ultimately grown into something nefarious and criminal. And Cordy, the youngest, whose Bohemian lifestyle has finally managed to catch up to her in one big long-term way.

Now she knew that, for her, it took no courage to leave; strength came from returning. Strength lay in staying. Brown does a fine job of weaving us through the present and past, nicely transitioning us through prom dates and managerial meetings, untraditional grade school classes and grown-up career choices without jarring us with abrupt chapter changes and awkward character shifts.

With so many main characters, you would think that one would take precedence or that another would fall by the wayside becoming a bit less developed than the others. However, that is not the case. Brown fleshes them all out equally. Brown made sure that these were sisters, but not triplets. I related most to Rose, the careful, mothering eldest sister who is always on time and can mend a hangover, but who also becomes irate over spilled water and lackadaisical attitudes.

Like Rose, the callousness of her sisters often irritated me too. And I sympathized with her dilemma of having to choose between her dream career and the man she loves. And, like her too, I always like to have a box of tissues on hand. Another reader may just as easily have been able to identify with one of the other sisters: The careless drifter who has just received a large dose of reality, or the middle child who was so sure that her escape from this small, sleepy town had been final.

Do you think that's the big secret adults keep from you? That you never feel like a grown-up? I so wanted to immediately like it. It was often a sad, depressing, and disheartening look at the uncertainty and complexity of life. It stood as a reminder to me as if I needed to be reminded that being an adult is often fraught with sadness, dissatisfaction, and dangerous decisions.

They read books hello. They quote Shakespeare could have been movies, or poetry, or Game of Thrones. And they have each made messes of their lives in some way, shape or form been there, done that. We think of someone who is weird as being strange, eccentric or a little off-kilter. So his three weird sisters were considered goddesses of destiny; and in Macbeth, it was of the sinister kind.

And though we have tried to escape their influence, they have seeped into us, and we find ourselves living their patterns again and again. Nonetheless, it is well-written and the unique narrative voice adds a special perspective.

Mar 27, Jaylia3 rated it it was amazing. What bibliophile could resist The Weird Sisters, a story about three book-loving but otherwise very different sisters all named for characters from Shakespeare? My review from I loved this satisfying, hopeful, intelligent book from start to finish. Their mother has just been diagnosed with cancer and they are all back home to help.

When I read in reviews that The Weird Sisters has a first person plural narrator, a "we" that includes all three sisters, I pictured a homogenized Greek chorus and was extremely skeptical that the book could delve deeply enough into any of them to be interesting. That turned out to be far from true, and far from being interchangeable these sisters have stark differences that make it hard for them to get along sometimes.

Part of why the first person plural works so well though—and it would be worth reading the book for that alone—is that being family the sisters share the same history, have common understandings, and know each other very well.

And they all love reading. Instead, every moment in line, on the train, or eating she--and her sisters--spend reading. But their differences are as significant as their similarities and all three sisters have big decisions to make. Bianca, the middle child, has taken great risks, even breaking laws, because she longs for attention, glamour and the kind of cosmopolitan life that can only be found far from their Ohio hometown, but after being fired from her job she has to rethink everything.

I am hoping for another book from Eleanor Brown. Another unexpected read that I opened by chance and it hooked me, this tale of the three sisters from a reasonably normal small college town family who take quite different life paths only to reunite when thei mother's illness and some major happenings in their life pregnancy, marriage but also messed up career and heartbreak brings them back to their home. A fast and engaging read with well drawn characters Another unexpected read that I opened by chance and it hooked me, this tale of the three sisters from a reasonably normal small college town family who take quite different life paths only to reunite when thei mother's illness and some major happenings in their life pregnancy, marriage but also messed up career and heartbreak brings them back to their home.

A fast and engaging read with well drawn characters Eleanor Brown the author of this book spoke at our Staff Day this year. Turns out, she's a board member for our library district.

I had no idea. I think I only know 2 of the members on the board since I stopped attending the meetings a few years back. So much has changed. At any rate, Brown was delightful and hilarious as our keynote speaker and I decided we need to be BFFs. But I don't think that's going to happen so, instead, I read this, her first book and now we can't be BFFs because I'm no Eleanor Brown the author of this book spoke at our Staff Day this year. But I don't think that's going to happen so, instead, I read this, her first book and now we can't be BFFs because I'm not giving this a glowing five-star review and who wants to be friends with people who don't adore everything you do, right?

I mean, that can't happen twice in a lifetime, can it? Summary: Three sisters whose father was a Shakespeare professor and whose mother is a dreamer come home to Ohio. They all move back into their parents' house, Rose to help with her mother, Bean to get back on her feet and reconcile with her recent past, and Cordy because impending baby, and get along about as well as you'd expect while their mother goes to chemo and their father constantly quotes Shakespeare all the damn time.

I enjoyed this story but, man, it was a difficult journey because I felt like I was stuck with all these people I didn't like; seriously, I don't think there was one character in this book to whom I felt attached in any way.

I completely understand why none of these characters had any friends! None of them! The parents don't have friends, they only have each other and their daughters. The sisters don't have friends, they only have each other and their parents and the men-folk to whom they're attached. The menfolk don't have friends, the neighbors don't have friends, the librarian has no friends and it makes sense because none of them are like-able people.

So while this was well-written, it was also tedious. Every few paragraphs, I'd sigh and wonder just how these fictional people manage to survive this fictional world. There were things I did recognize, though, specifically three sisters coming together both because of personal issues and because their mother is diagnosed with cancer.

That hit close to home, having just been through the exact same thing this year, though with a dramatically different outcome. For instance, Noelle she would be the Bianca and I I'm the Rose found out this holiday season that we're not on speaking terms with the youngest the Cordelia when our step-dad told us we were the reason she wasn't in attendance for the festivities.

Noelle and I shrugged and were all nasty about it with things like, "Best Christmas present ever! But, really, it was nice to not have the drama at the table this past weekend and I am sure she was happier wherever she was because she would have been able to be herself and to have the spotlight that we consistently deny her.

You know what I did really like in this tale? The narrator the one in the story not the person reading this audiobook. The Weird Sisters collective, all three of them as an omniscient unit, tell this story and I was absolutely charmed by that, possibly because I often feel part of a sister triumvirate but also because it was fun to have a classical-type storyteller recounting a contemporary tale.

Speaking of contemporary, though, I'm not sure when this was supposed to have taken place. I don't remember mention of cell phones or other mobile devices and there were things that happened that would not fly in these enlightened years but I also never picked up any hints at other decades, either. That caused bemusement now and again. Before I finish, I want to clear up a couple of misconceptions, should someone not realize this story is not representative if the way the world works.

When they are, the hours are quite limited, unlike the library in this book that seemed to have been open all the time. In addition, especially nowadays, it would be exceedingly rare for a person off the streets, someone who "loves the library", to be given a head librarian job with no prior experience other than spending time in the library as a child.

That part is pure fantasy, people, so don't expect it to happen to you. Just one of those things is hard to bounce back from. All three? Yeah, it takes awhile before moms can be up and moving for such long stretches of time. And if this did take place 20 years ago? She'd have taken months to heal and bread-baking would not have been on her list of things to do for quite awhile. However, despite those little unrealities and despite the slew of irritation-inducing characters, I enjoyed the story as a whole, especially the narrator.

I understand Brown's second novel has been better received so I'll probably listen to that sometime this summer. In the meantime, I'm going to have to start stalking her and convincing her she really wants to be my BFF despite this non-glowing review. Aug 30, Lauren rated it did not like it Shelves: reads. Middle sister, Bianca, ditched her small town to live the big city life in New York, embezzled lots of money from her company for designer clothing, skipped out on rent, and charged up her credit cards.

Her return to home is a result of being broke with the threat of legal action hanging over her. The kids, growing up with Shakespeare in their blood, quote the Bard regularly throughout the book, and the father speaks almost exclusively in prose. This is kind of the one thing that makes the family unique: all they seem to care about is Shakespeare and themselves. I hated this book. The first few chapters are interesting enough, but then things just get painful.

The characters are undeniably flat and seem to be cast from cookie cutter shapes of how sibling rivalries are supposed to play out. Oldest sister - control freak - shocker! Middle sister - desperate for attention - how novel!

The author tries to make up for the crappy plot by long, flowery descriptions, which to me, mean very little when nothing is really happening. The voice that this is written in, too, is weird - first person plural. This book got some positive reviews on Goodreads, which boggles my mind entirely.

I mean, if you enjoy flowery descriptions with a boring plot or are really really really into Shakespeare, maybe you might find some redeeming qualities in it, but for me, I only finished this book so I could write a long review bitching about it for all you lovely followers.

This is the story of three sisters who have returned to their Ohio home town to help care for their mother who's receiving treatment for breast cancer. But it turns out that their simultaneous return home is more coincidental than prompted by desire to nurse their mother.

All three are escaping their failures in life, all of which are different. The sisters themselves are all very much different from each other, the oldest a controlling homebody, the middle one a promiscuous spendthrift, and the This is the story of three sisters who have returned to their Ohio home town to help care for their mother who's receiving treatment for breast cancer. The sisters themselves are all very much different from each other, the oldest a controlling homebody, the middle one a promiscuous spendthrift, and the youngest a wandering hippie-dropout and pregnant.

They all disapprove of the failings in the other two, but only dimly comprehend their own failings. Their interaction takes place within the influence of their upbringing much inculcated by the spirit of their father, a college Shakespearean professor.

Their father responds to all situations with an applicable quotation from The Bard. His daughters often do the same. The author has included a positive disinterested role for a church pastor--something many secular authors fail to do. This is a well written book that made the story of three young women interesting to even an old man such as myself.

Aug 23, Roxanne rated it it was ok. I really wanted to like this book, but when I found myself putting it down time after time I knew I was kidding myself. First, the sisters were not really weird. They were immature, self-centered, mean, shallow and undeserving.

Having five sisters of my own, I really did not identify with any of the characters or relationships in the book. Eventually each sister just got on my nerves. I could see the ending from a mile away. The book was packed with gimmicks. Relationships between sisters can be I really wanted to like this book, but when I found myself putting it down time after time I knew I was kidding myself.

Relationships between sisters can be multi-layered and complex. Hwel stages the play in Lancre, but the production is a disaster. The witches interfere, forcing the actors to speak the truth. The Fool, moving to protect Magrat from arrest, bears witness against the lord, accusing him of murder. Lord Felmet becomes entirely unhinged, flees, and dies to an accidental fall. Lady Felmet, the instigator behind Lord Felmet, is arrested and imprisoned. Tomjon refuses the throne of Lancre. He wishes to return to his theatre troupe in Ankh-Morpork.

The Fool, who happens to be Tomjon's illegitimate older brother Verence, ascends to the throne instead and continues his relationship with Magrat. Nanny and Granny reveal to Magrat that, while Verence is indeed Tomjon's half-brother, they share a mother, not a father.

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