false 137791 41 Wells is a Louisiana-born Seattle actress and playwright; her loopy saga of a 40-year-old player in Seattle's hot theater scene who must come to terms with her mama's past in steamy Thornton City, Louisiana, reads like a lengthy episode of <I>Designing Women</I> written under the influence of mint juleps and Faulkner's <i>Absalom, Absalom!</i>. The Ya-Yas are the wild circle of girls who swirl around the narrator Siddalee's mama, Vivi, whose vivid voice is "part Scarlett, part Katharine Hepburn, part Tallulah." The Ya-Yas broke the no-booze rule at the cotillion, skinny-dipped their way to jail in the town water tower, disrupted the Shirley Temple look-alike contest, and bonded for life because, as one says, "It's so much <I>fun</I> being a bad girl!" <p> Siddalee must repair her busted relationship with Vivi by reading a half-century's worth of letters and clippings contained in the Ya-Ya Sisterhood's packet of "Divine Secrets." It's a contrived premise, but the secrets are really fun to learn. 1010054 1996 Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood total:58422|5:13251|4:18823|3:17435|2:6054|1:2859| 58422 208819 68189 1636 1 14 false false Sat Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2006 Fri Oct 05 07:32:46 -0700 2007 Sun Jan 27 08:02:26 -0800 2008 more...]]> 4 11 false false Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2002 Thu Apr 03 14:33:37 -0700 2008 Fri Apr 11 00:03:21 -0700 2008 more...]]> 1 9 false false Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2004 Sun Jul 13 12:20:54 -0700 2008 Sun Jul 13 12:28:15 -0700 2008 more...]]> 3 6 false false Mon Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Mon Oct 08 18:18:23 -0700 2007 Mon Oct 15 18:51:21 -0700 2007 more...]]> 2 3 false false Thu Jul 17 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Mon Jul 14 04:17:51 -0700 2008 Sat Jul 19 06:47:43 -0700 2008
There were some things that I liked about it. ...more...]]> 1 3 false false Wed Aug 29 17:50:32 -0700 2007 Wed Aug 29 17:50:32 -0700 2007 I found it disturbing that hord...more...]]> 5 3 false false Wed Jan 30 07:04:48 -0800 2008 Wed Jan 30 07:12:27 -0800 2008 more...]]> 1 2 false false Thu Jul 05 22:05:19 -0700 2007 Thu Jul 05 22:05:19 -0700 2007 more...]]> 2 1 false false Sun Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2002 Fri Nov 28 15:14:16 -0800 2008 Fri Nov 28 15:21:42 -0800 2008 1 more...]]> 4 2 false false Sat Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2000 Sat Jun 14 11:10:09 -0700 2008 Sat Jun 14 11:13:31 -0700 2008 1 1 false true Wed Dec 31 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Mon Dec 29 18:42:24 -0800 2008 Wed Dec 31 20:17:35 -0800 2008
I never manage to abandon books once I've started them, even when they're utter and to...more...]]> 4 1 false false Mon Mar 24 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sun Mar 16 19:47:43 -0700 2008 Tue Mar 25 12:00:31 -0700 2008
The entire book discuss' in detail the importance of few key character relationships. Getting to the MAIN relationship, in my opionion, and setting up the climax of the book is...more...]]> 5 2 false false Sat Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2002 Fri Jan 25 20:24:37 -0800 2008 Fri Mar 07 08:33:31 -0800 2008 more...]]> 3 1 false false Sun Sep 28 20:24:40 -0700 2008 Fri Jan 09 22:09:51 -0800 2009 more...]]> 5 1 false false Sun Mar 01 07:28:59 -0800 2009 Sun Mar 01 07:29:25 -0800 2009 2 1 false false Sat Feb 07 11:20:31 -0800 2009 Sat Feb 07 11:21:26 -0800 2009 4 0 false false Sun Mar 08 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sun Mar 08 19:07:06 -0700 2009 Sun Mar 08 19:07:06 -0700 2009 more...]]> 2 0 false false Wed Mar 04 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Tue Mar 03 18:19:41 -0800 2009 Tue Mar 03 23:01:25 -0800 2009 Siddalee Walker is a theater director in New York. The novel starts off with Sidda and her mom exchanging very harsh words, over the phone, on a recent newspaper article written about Sidda’s childhood experiences with Vivi walker as her mother. On an already strained relations...more...]]> 3 0 false false Sun Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2002 Sat Jan 03 11:53:11 -0800 2009 Sat Jan 03 12:16:05 -0800 2009 1 more...]]> 2 0 false false Sun Dec 21 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Mon Dec 22 10:53:47 -0800 2008 Mon Dec 22 11:03:26 -0800 2008 more...]]>