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In the small river town of La Luna, Louisiana, Calla Lily Ponder bursts into being, a force of nature as luminous as the flower she is named for. Under the loving light of the Moon Lady, the feminine force that will guide and protect her throughout her life, Calla enjoys a blissful childhood—until it is tragically cut short. From her mother, Calla learns compassion and healing through the humble womanly art of "fixing hair." On the banks of the La Luna River, she discovers a sweet, succulent first love that is as enticing as the music, food, and dancing of her Louisiana home. When heartbreak hits, Calla leaves the familiarity of her hometown and heads downriver to the untamed city of New Orleans, where her destiny further unfolds.

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Ho Hum
I love Rebecca Wells and all the Ya-Ya books, but this one was a yawn. Calla seems so immature throughout the whole book, even when she is a grown up. I don't know. I could barely make it through the whole book, though I did. I did not like the ending. It was like, ok, this is what happened. Bye. The End. Really? Ugh. This story could have been so much better. But it is like Wells just hurried through it to finish it and get a book out.

Positive, uplifting, I loved the writing in this book!
I was shocked when I logged in and read all of the terrible reviews of this book. Really, truly shocked! I completely connected with the characters in the story and I loved the way it was written. I criend harder than I have ever cried in a book (and I'm not someone who cries when I'm reading...) and I was uplifed by the positive messages throughout the story. I was reminded of my oh-so-wise and wonderful late grandmother who spoke just the way this book was written. I loved "The Crowning Glory of Calla Lily Ponder" and I hope many others give it a try. I found it to be a truly wonderful book!

Disappointing
I was looking forward to settling in and reading this book but half way through I was completely bored. It was all I could do to finish it and even skipped the last 2 pages where the "Moon Lady" is talking. The book is juvenile and I have a hard time believing that Rebecca Wells actually wrote it, Lyme Disease or not. Pathetic.

Most excellent!
A very good read.I have read other Rebecca Well books.They are a "breathe of fresh air".

Anne

Incredibly disappointing.
It's REALLY hard to believe the same woman who wrote the Divine Secrets of the Ya Ya Sisterhood wrote this book.What happened?Sure, it's hard to equal, let alone top a book that was in the all time favorite category for so many readers.I wasn't expecting that, but one can hope.And I had reason to hope.Her first book, Little Altars Everywhere was not as good as the Ya Yas, imo, but was still a darn fine effort.But this book is a shocking fall from grace, if you think of a great book as a grace, and I do.

Many here have named its many faults correctly---thin characters, a pat story, bad dialogue, endless cliches and well worn metaphors, tells far more than shows.Sum up by saying it's all around bad writing.The prose in the Ya Ya's was exquisite, the perfect blend of craft and story.The prose in this book could be topped by a lot of students taking their first writing class.If this was Rebecca Wells' first book, it wouldn't get her an agent, let alone a publishing deal.

As I read it I found myself growing increasingly irritated till I wound up angry.It seems Ms. Wells phoned this book in, and if she couldn't see what a bad reflection of her talent it is, her agent should have told her. It is unfortunate that best selling writers often don't get edited because the agent/publisher cynically calculates it's not worth the investment with a best selling name, as it will sell anyway.Up till now Rebecca Wells' name was enough for me.No longer.I'll buy another of her books if and when it gets great word of mouth, and reviews. I'll never trust just her name again.

But I am still thankful to Ms. Wells for giving me such a fine reading experience with the Ya Yas and Little Altars.I have a memory of reading the last 50 pages of the Ya Yas on a Mexican Beach, my heart swelling with love for thatbook. I hope Ms. Wells will find her way back to the kind of writing that makes a reader feel that way. ... Read more

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Rebecca Wells's wonderful third book in her Ya-Ya trilogy, which includes Little Altars Everywhere and Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood, is sure to provide reading that makes you laugh and cry, a book that will break your heart and mend it again.

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Ya-Yas In Bloom by Rebecca Wells
Ya-Yas In Bloom is every bit as funny and irreverant as Rebecca Wells first two books, Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood and Little Alters Everywhere.I was not the least bit disappointed in this book that continued to fill in the gaps of how the Ya-Yas--Vivi, Necie, Teensy and Caro--first became friends at the age of four.Each chapter in the book was told from different perspectives and stages of life of the Ya-Yas and the petites Ya-Yas, their children.We learn even more details of the relationships they have with their husbands, their love/hate relationship with the Catholic Church, unconventional child rearing habits, racial tensions and tragedies.There were several places in the book that I was laughing out loud at the outrageousness that is so Ya-Ya!If you haven't had a chance to read this last book in the Ya-Yas story be sure to do so soon.It was a joy to read.

Ya-Ya Leftovers
I very much enjoyed the first two Ya-Ya books, so picked this one up expecting more enjoyable reading.

Unfortunately, it's only suitable for Ya-Ya fans who must have more stories of the Walker clan.This book amounts to nothing but left-overs.It appears to be charater sketches that were discarded for use in the first two books.Like the other books it's a collection of vignettes; but this book is more hodge-podge than its predecessors - and doesn't seem to have common plot. The third time Ya-Yas book seems boring; and has way too many characters; - you need the family tree on the book's cover to keep up with the story.

Tres blah...
I loved "Divine Secrets" and "Little Altars" and now I think I will have to re-read them in order to erase the memory of Wells' latest book.As the other reviewers said, there was no substance or depth of character. There were glimmers of the charm found in the other two books, such as Baylor's story, but these were few and far between. The Christmas pageant at the end was excrutiatingly bad. I have to wonder if the author dashed this book off at the publisher's request.

excellent
This third collection of Ya-Ya stories was as beautiful, poignant, funny and sad as the first two. I had to keep a pencil by my side in order to underline the especially beautiful turns of phrase and, believe me, there were many.

Vote for strange, not deranged.
Not nearly as good as the first two in the series. There's a bit of feminist hogwash and gun politics at the end which is distracting from the story. I also didn't like the way she made the original YaYas seem a bit on the deranged side. ... Read more

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The companion to the beloved bestseller Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood, here is the funny, heartbreaking, and powerfully insightful tale that first introduced Siddalee, Vivi, their spirited Walker clan, and the indomitable Ya-Yas.

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Set over a 30 years period
Luckily I read the DEVINE SECRETS OF THE YA- YA SISTERHOOD first and loved itso bought LITTLE ALTARS EVERYWHERE, which is a story set over 30 years.

What a let down. It is good but no where near the level ofDEVINE SECRETS OF THE YA- YA SISTERHOOD I felt it was missing detail and I wanted more in it.I hoped it would have answeredmorequestions about Sidda, Big Shep, Luluand ViVi and others.

Personaly skip this one go straight to DEVINE SECRETS OF THE YA-YA SISTERHOOD.What a read.!!!!!

A Welcome Visit to the 1960's Bayou
This was the first in the "Ya-Ya" series.We flash back and forth from the 60's to the 90's and learn of the Walker family through the eyes of the parents, Shep and Vivienne and their kids, Sidalee, Little Shep, Lulu and Baylor as well as their maid Willetta and her husband Chaney.All the adventure, dysfunction, local color, booziness and general mayhem is conveyed little by little, through memory or through present-day experience and we also learn of the Ya-Ya's - the girls Vivienne grew-up with and is still close to.

I must admit that I don't have a good memory of the movie.That could be a good thing because I loved the book - from the style of one chapter in a given person's voice to the the content of each chapter.You couldn't hate Vivi, but despised what she did to the kids.You pitied Shep, but wanted him to rescue the kids.All were believable, complex and well0developed, worthy of the sequel.

I read this books years before the Ya Ya movie hit the screen...
...and I was SO disappointed in it.I couldn't relate to it at all.I felt as though I just wasted my money with this little book.Years later when the Ya Ya Sisterhood movie made it big, I saw the movie and read the book.I enjoyed the movie but had a hard time thinking that the southern ladies in their 70s actually would use the F word as much as those ladies in the movie did!!Well, that's Hollywood for you, I figured.Save your money with this book.Unless of course your parent was an alcoholic and then you could relate to the narrator of this story.Maybe then you'd like reading it(?)Idk.I thought it was a big disappointment.The Ya Ya Sisterhood was better.I was totally surprised when I discovered that the two books were actually written by the same person.

Disgusting and Depressing
I along with many others read Divine Secrets of the Ya Ya Sisterhood first.I LOVED it!!! It was one of those books I didn't want to end!I was elated when I found Little Altars everywhere at my local thrift store. I can't believe the diffence between the two!
I was caught off guard immediatley with the lesbian chapter.I had no idea that's where R. Wells was taking it.I had to read and re-read where the mother molests Little Shep because I was sure I was taking it the wrong way.I felt sympathy for Vivi in DSYYS, but not after this.If you want my opinion, read Divine Secrets of the YaYa Sisterhood and forget about Little Altars Everywhere.It's trash, plain and simple!

Emotional Roller Coaster
This book was fabulous - not quite as groundbreaking as the "Divine Secrets.." but still fabulous nonetheless. It made me smile, it made me think, and it made me cry - all the things a good book should do and more. Buy it - read it! Enjoy. ... Read more

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When Siddalee Walker, oldest daughter of Vivi Abbott Walker, Ya-Ya extraordinaire, is interviewed in the New York Times about a hit play she's directed, her mother gets described as a "tap-dancing child abuser." Enraged, Vivi disowns Sidda. Devastated, Sidda begs forgiveness, and postpones her upcoming wedding. All looks bleak until the Ya-Yas step in and convince Vivi to send Sidda a scrapbook of their girlhood mementos, called "Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood." As Sidda struggles to analyze her mother, she comes face to face with the tangled beauty of imperfect love, and the fact that forgiveness, more than understanding, is often what the heart longs for.

Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood may call to mind Prince of Tides in its unearthing of family darkness; in its unforgettable heroines and irrepressible humor and female loyalty, it echoes Fannie Flagg's Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe.Amazon.com Review
Wells is a Louisiana-born Seattle actress and playwright; her loopysaga of a 40-year-old player in Seattle's hot theater scene who mustcome to terms with her mama's past in steamy Thornton City, Louisiana,reads like a lengthy episode of Designing Women written underthe influence of mint juleps and Faulkner's Absalom,Absalom!. The Ya-Yas are the wild circle of girls who swirlaround the narrator Siddalee's mama, Vivi, whose vivid voice is"part Scarlett, part Katharine Hepburn, part Tallulah." TheYa-Yas broke the no-booze rule at the cotillion, skinny-dipped theirway to jail in the town water tower, disrupted the Shirley Templelook-alike contest, and bonded for life because, as one says,"It's so much fun being a bad girl!"

Siddaleemust repair her busted relationship with Vivi by reading ahalf-century's worth of letters and clippings contained in the Ya-YaSisterhood's packet of "Divine Secrets." It's a contrivedpremise, but the secrets are really fun to learn. ... Read more

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Exhausting
I didn't realize this book was a sequel.I just read it on its own without any familiarity from prior reading.

It feels like the "strong Southern women with lots of secrets that are gradually revealed" plot has been done enough already.I got exhausted by these characters and the word "ya ya" was pounded into my skull like a spike.

If you are into these kinds of plots, you'll love it.If watching "Steel Magnolias" was all you needed to satisfy any craving for "strong Southern women" stories, don't bother.(I suspect that few men will enjoy this book.That could be part of my problem with it.)

One of my top three favorite books of all time
I loved this book! I've read it three times. I can see how others would say that the characters are feminist or mean (which I loathe normally), but they're so well-developed that I could really relate to both Vivi and Sidda.I don't have a great relationship with my parents and it really helps explain the story of a life and loss and how that can affect a person's ability to parent.Vivi is a horrible/wonderful mother depending on her state of intoxication. She can be silly and fun and creative or abusive and neglectful. I also love my girl friends and cherish our friendships, so that was something else I could relate to.

I found the relationship between the friends enviable and charming and sweet. Each character had their own personality that was so well described, I could actually picture them as people and relate them to friends in my own life.And the story and plot itself captivated me to the end. it doesn't try to defend the mother, its just the story of how she came to be.Highly recommend!

In my top ten favorite novels
I cried when I read a flashback of Vivi's childhood.I laughed out loud during some of the funny stories of the Ya-Yas.My heart ached for some of the trauma that poor Siddalee endured.I was angry at Vivi's mother for being just so terrible at it. I honestly can say that I've never actually felt as many emotions while reading a novel as I have during this one.I read a review of another reader that said she wasn't super excited to read this because the title is rather silly and I agree with that.However, titles can be deceiving. I had no idea what I was in for.

This book is anything but silly.It is an incredible drama with tales woven in of physical abuse, alcoholism, friendship, lost love, the kind of trauma that a mother can leave with a daughter, and trying to find a place in life when you feel damaged.

The author is a wonderful writer and storyteller.She also brilliantly went back and forth between different periods of time effortlessly. You must read this book.I've recommended it to nearly everyone in my life and I haven't heard one person say they didn't devour it and love every moment of reading it.

One other note - if you have seen the movie, please read the book!The book is so much better and has so much more detail.The movie compared to the novel was quite terrible.

Just Right
The book was in good condition and just as was described.Very reasonable price and was shipped very quickly.Will definitely buy from this dealer again.

Good Read
this book took me a little longer to read than Little Alters, but I still enjoyed it. I know I'm late in reading this series lol, but I'm off to Ya-Ya's in Bloom. How can anyone NOT like the YaYa's ... Read more

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A special Mother's Day boxed set of Rebecca Wells's two New York Times-bestselling novels of the Ya-Yas and the Walker Clan, including a new Note to the Reader.

Both Little Altars Everywhere and Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood, chronicling the touching, funny, beguiling Walker family of Thornton, Louisiana, have been phenomenal critical and popular hits. Little Altars Everywhere, the first book, began life as a small-press, word-of-mouth cult classic in 1992, went on to win the Western States Book Award, and was included in the anthology Five Hundred Great Books by Women (Penguin, 1994). It followed Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood onto the New York Times bestseller list in 1998. The 1996 sequel, Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood, sparked the creation of Ya-Ya clubs around the country, and inspired Terry McMillan (San Francisco Chronicle) to exclaim, "I read the first two pages and I said, 'I haven't heard a white woman talk like this in literature before.'"Amazon.com Review
Little Altars Everywhere first introduces readers to SiddaleeWalker, her mother Viviane, and Viviane's unforgettable pals, theYa-Yas--as wild a bunch of born-and-bred steel magnolias as you will everrun across in literature. Set in Louisiana and narrated by various membersof the Walker family, Little Altars tells the tragicomic tale ofSiddalee's magnificently dysfunctional clan. There is hard-drinking Viviane,who alternately adores her children and abuses them, and Daddy Big Shep,who is inarticulate, alcoholic, and can't quite say what he means and seldommeans what he yells. Sidda's siblings are a mess, the family servants arebadly treated, and though Rebecca Wells includes many hilarious set piecesthroughout, even the Ya-Yas can't completely overcome the dark core at thecenter of this novel.

Wells continues the saga of Sidda and Vivi Walker in her follow-up,Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood, and this time the mood isconsiderably lightened as she takes her characters back in time via acollection of letters, clippings, and scrapbooks--the "divinesecrets" of the title. Here a younger, more sympathetic Vivi shares thelimelight with her Ya-Ya pals, Teensy, Caro, and Necie. From skinny-dippingin the town water tower to boozing it up at the spring cotillion, theseSouthern-fried hell-raisers prove what everyone has always suspected--that"it's so much fun being a bad girl!"But you don't have to be badto enjoy Rebecca Wells's take on family, friendship, and the ties that bindfor a lifetime. --Margaret Prior ... Read more

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Great book set
I'm grateful to have the original and the sequel in one box set.Loved the original more than the sequel; however they are both great.

A Real GRITS Pleaser
You don't have to be a GRITS (Girl Raised in the South) to enjoy and identify with the strong, loving women characters in these novels.These books are as crazy as your drunk Uncle Rabon at a wedding and as poignant as the first anniversary of your favorite huntin' dog's death.We all should have friends like these - Ya Ya!

Go Ya-Yas!
Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya sisterhood and Little Alters Everywhere tell the tale of Vivi and her beloved girlfriends the "Ya-Yas" and about Siddalee, her daughter who she both physicaly and emotionaly abused. Sidda was beaten, slapped, and called names by her own mother who was a drunk. Vivi, though charming and fun, is also very selfish and cruel. Sidda goes from being a hurt, abused little girl to a tough and passionate young woman in her 30s who still fights with her mother over a Time magazine article in which she tells of her mother's damanging ways. As Sidda slowly comes to know more about her mother from a scrapbook, it forever changes her life as she starts to heal past wounds and being able to move on from her dark past. Sidda is a beautifuly written voice, and there's so much truth to these books. So many parents abuse their kids and all for selfish reasons and most of all because they don't love them. Sidda doesn't know how to love anyone, since her parents didn't love her enough. But Vivi, though an unfit mother, is sorry more then ever that she hurt her poor children and both women struggle to regain their realionship. I love this book. It's a great book. It made me cry and laugh. I love the South, so I loved this book and the child-abuse subject is a very universal subject matter which I'm sure a lot of people are very farmilar with and can understand and have been through.

Little Alters Everywhere
This was a most enjoyable easy read.It filled you will sense of the south and a life (both good and bad) that most of us only see in the movies.

Boxed set allows reader to find out "all about the Walkers"
I was leant a well read dog-eared copy of 'Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood' a few years ago and came to know and love Rebecca Wells' style and story telling capabilities.

Ms. Wells has the ability to capture a particular era and region of the country (the South) and make her characters come alive.

The Ya-Yas are all about friendship, loyalty and some much darker and less admirable human traits as well.Some of the situations recounted in these two VERY different books about the Walker family will have the reader squirming with discomfort.For Rebecca Wells is intent on telling the whole story: the bad, the sad, the shocking, as well about the successes, the joys and a lot of giggles at the funnier side of human nature.

When you have finished both volumes in this boxed set, you will have a really good idea of what makes a very complex set of family members (the Walkers) "tick".What keeps them together, what may tear them apart.The journey isn't going to be boring in Ms. Wells' talented hands.

The story(stories) prove that being a "southern belle" isn't nearly as easy as you might think.

I'm happy to have my own lovely boxed set, combining both volumes 'Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood' and 'Little Alters Everywhere', so I can revisit these fascinating people any time I want.My particular recommendation for the reader would be to read 'Divine Secrets' first and then flesh out the history of the clan with 'Little Alters'.But I have wondered many times why Ms. Wells published the smaller, episodic 'Little Alters' first.So those uninitiated into Ya-Ya-hood, may wish to read them in order of the published date.If you do, PLEASE let me know what you think about the experience.I'd be interested in your opinions. ... Read more

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A #1 New York Times Bestselling Author

Ya-Yas in Bloom reveals the roots of the Ya-Yas' friendship in the 1930s and roars with all the raw power of Vivi Abbott Walker's 1962 T-Bird through 60 years of marriage, child-raising, and hair-raising family secrets. When four-year-old Teensy Whitman prisses one time too many and stuffs a big old pecan up her nose, she sets off the chain of events that leads Vivi, Teensy, Caro and Necie to become true sister-friends. In love and at war with convention, through crises of faith and hilarious lapses of parenting skills, brushes with alcoholism and glimpses of the dark reality of racial bigotry, the Ya-Ya values of unconditional loyalty, high style, and Cajun sass shine through. ... Read more

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This joint biography tells the story of the literary partnership between two unusually gifted and imaginative writers. The liaison between H.G.Wells and Rebecca West lasted ten years, from 1913 to 1923, during which time they influenced each other's writing and both produced fiction which re-imagined and drew creatively on their relationship. Wells and West first met when he was 46, already a famous novelist with "The Time Machine", "The War of the Worlds" and "Tono-Bungay" among his published fiction. She was 19, just making a name for herself as an outspoken writer on political and feminist issues. Ten years later their lives and achievements were markedly different. Wells had gained an international reputation as a popular educator with his best selling "Outline of History" and "A Short History of the World". He was happy with his wife and sons and increasingly occupied with politics and world affairs. West was still making her way as a literary artist. She had published two novels of considerable promise - "The Return of the Soldier" and "The Judge", but her career had been cut across by being the unmarried mother of Wells' child.The partnership between Wells and West finally crumbled because each wanted different things: she wanted security, reassurance, stability; but Wells wanted a goddess. These aims proved to be incompatible. Drawing on unpublished sources and on John Hammond's original and extensive research, this biography places the extraordinary relationship of Wells and West, and its effect on their creative lives, in its full literary context. Hammond's assessment of each writer's personalities, their differences of literary and intellectual opinion and their respective literary works breaks new ground, as does the emphasis on the way in which the partnership affected, in positive and negative ways, the work of these two writers. ... Read more

Customer Reviews (1181)

Exhausting
I didn't realize this book was a sequel.I just read it on its own without any familiarity from prior reading.

It feels like the "strong Southern women with lots of secrets that are gradually revealed" plot has been done enough already.I got exhausted by these characters and the word "ya ya" was pounded into my skull like a spike.

If you are into these kinds of plots, you'll love it.If watching "Steel Magnolias" was all you needed to satisfy any craving for "strong Southern women" stories, don't bother.(I suspect that few men will enjoy this book.That could be part of my problem with it.)

One of my top three favorite books of all time
I loved this book! I've read it three times. I can see how others would say that the characters are feminist or mean (which I loathe normally), but they're so well-developed that I could really relate to both Vivi and Sidda.I don't have a great relationship with my parents and it really helps explain the story of a life and loss and how that can affect a person's ability to parent.Vivi is a horrible/wonderful mother depending on her state of intoxication. She can be silly and fun and creative or abusive and neglectful. I also love my girl friends and cherish our friendships, so that was something else I could relate to.

I found the relationship between the friends enviable and charming and sweet. Each character had their own personality that was so well described, I could actually picture them as people and relate them to friends in my own life.And the story and plot itself captivated me to the end. it doesn't try to defend the mother, its just the story of how she came to be.Highly recommend!

In my top ten favorite novels
I cried when I read a flashback of Vivi's childhood.I laughed out loud during some of the funny stories of the Ya-Yas.My heart ached for some of the trauma that poor Siddalee endured.I was angry at Vivi's mother for being just so terrible at it. I honestly can say that I've never actually felt as many emotions while reading a novel as I have during this one.I read a review of another reader that said she wasn't super excited to read this because the title is rather silly and I agree with that.However, titles can be deceiving. I had no idea what I was in for.

This book is anything but silly.It is an incredible drama with tales woven in of physical abuse, alcoholism, friendship, lost love, the kind of trauma that a mother can leave with a daughter, and trying to find a place in life when you feel damaged.

The author is a wonderful writer and storyteller.She also brilliantly went back and forth between different periods of time effortlessly. You must read this book.I've recommended it to nearly everyone in my life and I haven't heard one person say they didn't devour it and love every moment of reading it.

One other note - if you have seen the movie, please read the book!The book is so much better and has so much more detail.The movie compared to the novel was quite terrible.

Just Right
The book was in good condition and just as was described.Very reasonable price and was shipped very quickly.Will definitely buy from this dealer again.

Good Read
this book took me a little longer to read than Little Alters, but I still enjoyed it. I know I'm late in reading this series lol, but I'm off to Ya-Ya's in Bloom. How can anyone NOT like the YaYa's ... Read more

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A feminist reading of Radcliffe Hall's international bestseller and her both inspiring and infuriating heroine Stephen Gordon. She includes a fascinating survey of readers' responses to the book. This book should be of interest to general readers and students and teachers in women's studies, literature, and sociology. ... Read more

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Trite and Preachy
I made the same mistake as a prior reviewer, thinking this author also wrote Little Altars Everywhere.THIS book is a very poor self-help book.To people suffering from illness it advises me to say, "Think positivethoughts" and "God doesn't always choose to heal us, but his planis best."To someone grieving the loss of a loved one this book says,"Heaven is a better place since your loved one has arrived" and"Experiencing the death of a loved one can enrich our earthlyrelationship with Christ."It's not all trite and preachy but a lotof it is.If you're already a thoughtful enough person to want to buy abook like this, then you're probably better off following your owninstincts than the advice in this book.

But I Don't Know What To Say by Rebecca Wells
This is a lovely book for what it is....a self help book.I was mistaken and thought it was by the author of Little Altars Everywhere and Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood, but alas this is not the same Rebecca Wells.Please be advised and do not make the same mistake.Same name but not the same person. ... Read more

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faithful translation
I ordered this book for my mother (who only speaks Spanish).I had read the English version.After she read her copy, I read it.It was pretty faithful to the English version.She enjoyed it a great deal.

SPANISH EDITION
I preordered this book, thinking it was a continuance of Little Altars and The Divine Secret of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood.I did not see anything that told what this book was about.I got it this week and was sick when I saw it was in Spanish.I was waiting for another sequal to the others.I was so disappointed.It is on its way back. I would recommend that someone put in the description that this is the Spanish Edition.Certainly someone that reads Spanish would love it.It would save the seller money.I don't think I am the only one that returned it at the seller's expense.

Not what I expected
This is a SPANISH translation of DIVINE SECRETS....The product description for this book or rather the lack of led me to believe that this is a newly written book which it is not.So unless you would like to read a book in SPANISH this one is not for you. ... Read more

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Contains the abridged versions of Divine Secrets of the the Ya–Ya Sisterhood and Little Altars Everywhere, in a fabulous slip case.

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Not just for mothers--best friends too.
The tragedy and love these four women shared amongst themselves creates a story that one will cherish forever and after.Each Ya-Ya is a prodigy of drama and humanity, and this cass. is recommended for all lovers of life,friendship, and family.

I laughed so hard, I wet my pants!
Sometimes you cry, other times you laugh. Over all , It is a pleasure to hear such a fine preformance by the author. Great for a trip. ... Read more