I have been living in a closet, or maybe just consumed by the never-ending world of potty training, because I had never heard of The
Weird Sisters until being selected to review it for the Blogher Book Club.
Living under a rock allowed me to read this novel about three sisters, Rose, Bean, and Cordy, who return to live in their family home in Ohio upon learning of their mother's cancer diagnosis with fresh eyes.
Peppered with one too many italicized Shakespeare quotes, which served to pound into the readers brain that the weird sisters were brought up with a father who communicated through literature, the book was a very beautiful story of the relationship between three uniquely different sisters.
It really analyzed the familial relationship. The father seemed so absent, the mother, off in the world of her mind the sisters seemed to have been raised by books. Pounded throughout is that fact that while the sisters were at one point close, they no longer like each other. At the core is a sense of envy each feels towards the other.
Brought back together to deal with their mothers cancer they do reconnect and mend there issues while finding themselves. Pretty convenient if you ask me.
I did like this book. It was an endearing read and I loved finding out more about the sisters, but I really felt thrown off by all of the Shakespeare quotes to the point where I would skip over them. This was not the authors intention, but about half way through the book I couldn't do anything else.
Bottom Line: Enjoyable, but I probably won't be hoping for a movie to come out.
This post was sponsored by Blogher Book Club, but the opinions and ideas expressed are all my own.
Living under a rock allowed me to read this novel about three sisters, Rose, Bean, and Cordy, who return to live in their family home in Ohio upon learning of their mother's cancer diagnosis with fresh eyes.
Peppered with one too many italicized Shakespeare quotes, which served to pound into the readers brain that the weird sisters were brought up with a father who communicated through literature, the book was a very beautiful story of the relationship between three uniquely different sisters.
It really analyzed the familial relationship. The father seemed so absent, the mother, off in the world of her mind the sisters seemed to have been raised by books. Pounded throughout is that fact that while the sisters were at one point close, they no longer like each other. At the core is a sense of envy each feels towards the other.
Brought back together to deal with their mothers cancer they do reconnect and mend there issues while finding themselves. Pretty convenient if you ask me.
I did like this book. It was an endearing read and I loved finding out more about the sisters, but I really felt thrown off by all of the Shakespeare quotes to the point where I would skip over them. This was not the authors intention, but about half way through the book I couldn't do anything else.
Bottom Line: Enjoyable, but I probably won't be hoping for a movie to come out.
This post was sponsored by Blogher Book Club, but the opinions and ideas expressed are all my own.
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