false 544472 <![CDATA[Ya-Yas in Bloom: A Novel]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1175663258m/544472.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1175663258s/544472.jpg 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.

Ya-Yas in Bloom reveals the roots of the Ya-Yas' friendship in the 1930s, following Vivi, Teensy, Caro and Necie through sixty 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 lead Vivi, Teensy, Caro, and Necie to become true sister-friends. Using as narration the alternating voices of Vivi and the Petite Ya-Yas, Siddalee and Baylor Walker, as well as other denizens of Thornton, Louisiana, Wells show us the Ya-Yas 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 Louisiana sass shine through.

But in the Ya-Yas' inimitable way, these four remarkable women also teach their children about the Mysteries: the wonder of snow in the deep South, the possibility that humans are made of stars, and the belief that miracles do happen. And they need a miracle when old grudges and wounded psyches lead to a heartbreaking crime...and the dynamic web of sisterhood is the only safety net strong enough to hold families together and endure.

After two bestsellers and a blockbuster movie, the Ya-Yas have become part of American culture -- icons for the power of women's friendship. Ya-Yas in Bloom continues the saga, giving us more Ya-Ya lore, spun out in the rich patois of the Louisiana bayou country and brim full of the Ya-Ya message to embrace life and each other with joy.

]]> 137792 19 1358863 3 5 2005 Ya Yas in Bloom total:2535|5:322|4:705|3:1013|2:400|1:95| 2535 8364 3316 216 3489 3.54 74654 2702 640582 26511 137792 0007201095 9780007201099 173 <![CDATA[Ya Yas in Bloom]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172090848m/137792.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172090848s/137792.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/137792.Ya_Yas_in_Bloom 3.30 2174 Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood will leap for joy. And, to be fair, if you didn't get swept along in the divine madness of the Ya-Yas first time around, there's still plenty to hold your interest in this latest look at the Louisiana lives of the four gals and their increasingly blooming offspring, dahling. That's if you like your words candy-coated and sweet enough to calm a honey-bee. For the rest of us, a good flossing afterwards won't go amiss.

Rebecca Wells quite rightly recognises where her bread is buttered and delivers another slice of the four ladies and their inimitable style of living, hot on the high heels of a Hollywood script. Find out how the Ya-Yas first met, way back when, and how they got all grown-up and married. There's kids a plenty--well, for the sisterhood anyway and, against some odds, most of them turn out pretty decent folk.

Parts of Ya-Yas in Bloom is told from the point of view of Vivi Abbott Walker's children, particularly Siddalee and Baylor. So while we swing back in time to the thirties and the early days of the sisterhood, we also travel through the sixties and the arrival in the good ol' USA of four lads from Liverpool and on into the present day and the modern trials of career women.

There's even a plot of a kind, although not much to speak of--you can see it coming from afar--and its outcome is as predictable as Vivi's lipstick. It seems that if you're not in the sisterhood, then you're out. And life will just never be as much fun. ---Carey Green

]]> 2005 1 2 false Sun Apr 08 21:08:31 -0700 2007 Wed Dec 16 17:44:18 -0800 2009 more...]]> 49006209 1874367 137792 0007201095 9780007201099 173 <![CDATA[Ya Yas in Bloom]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172090848m/137792.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172090848s/137792.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/137792.Ya_Yas_in_Bloom 3.30 2535 Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood will leap for joy. And, to be fair, if you didn't get swept along in the divine madness of the Ya-Yas first time around, there's still plenty to hold your interest in this latest look at the Louisiana lives of the four gals and their increasingly blooming offspring, dahling. That's if you like your words candy-coated and sweet enough to calm a honey-bee. For the rest of us, a good flossing afterwards won't go amiss.

Rebecca Wells quite rightly recognises where her bread is buttered and delivers another slice of the four ladies and their inimitable style of living, hot on the high heels of a Hollywood script. Find out how the Ya-Yas first met, way back when, and how they got all grown-up and married. There's kids a plenty--well, for the sisterhood anyway and, against some odds, most of them turn out pretty decent folk.

Parts of Ya-Yas in Bloom is told from the point of view of Vivi Abbott Walker's children, particularly Siddalee and Baylor. So while we swing back in time to the thirties and the early days of the sisterhood, we also travel through the sixties and the arrival in the good ol' USA of four lads from Liverpool and on into the present day and the modern trials of career women.

There's even a plot of a kind, although not much to speak of--you can see it coming from afar--and its outcome is as predictable as Vivi's lipstick. It seems that if you're not in the sisterhood, then you're out. And life will just never be as much fun. ---Carey Green

]]> 2005 4 0 false Wed Mar 11 23:29:44 -0700 2009 Wed Mar 11 23:48:19 -0700 2009
It’s mostly a matter of tone. The books seem somewhat like a continu...more...]]> 45460327 1008236 882355 0060195347 9780060195342 3 <![CDATA[Ya-Yas in Bloom]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1179169788m/882355.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1179169788s/882355.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/882355.Ya_Yas_in_Bloom 3.11 27 For readers everywhere who are ga-ga for the Ya-Yas and clamoring for more and for those who are lucky enough to be discovering the Ya-Yas for the first time, comes a new book about the incomparable Sisterhood, bursting with life and funnier than ever....

An emotionally charged addition to Rebecca Wells' award-winning bestseller Little Altars Everywhere and #1 New York Times bestseller Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood, 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 sixty 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 lead Vivi, Teensy, Caro, and Necie to become true sister-friends. Told in alternating voices of Vivi and the Petite Ya-Yas, Siddalee and Baylor Walker, as well as other denizens of Thornton, Louisiana, YA-YAS IN BLOOM show us the Ya-Yas 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. Necies wise credo, "Just think pretty pink and blue thoughts," helps too...

But in the Ya-Yas' inimitable way, these four remarkable women also teach their children about the Mysteries: the wonder of snow in the deep South, the possibility that humans are made of stars, and the belief that miracles do happen. And they need a miracle when old grudges and wounded psyches lead to a heartbreaking crime...and the dynamic web of sisterhood is the only safety net strong enough to hold families together and endure.

After two bestsellers and a blockbuster movie, the Ya-Yas have become part of American culture -- icons for the power of women's friendship. YA-YAS IN BLOOM continues the saga, giving us more Ya-Ya lore, spun out in the rich patois of the Louisiana bayou country and brim full of the Ya-Ya message to embrace life and each other with joy.

]]> 2005 0 0 false Thu Feb 05 09:33:08 -0800 2009 Thu Feb 05 09:33:08 -0800 2009 Critics generally agree that the bloom may have left the Ya-Yas. The novel, a collection of vignettes about "the time that [insert: _´it snowed,' or _´we drove to Houston for the Beatles concert']," is more hodge-podge than its predecessors. The Ya-Yas' antics seem stale, their child-raisi...

more...]]> 6978965 413509 137792 0007201095 9780007201099 173 <![CDATA[Ya Yas in Bloom]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172090848m/137792.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172090848s/137792.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/137792.Ya_Yas_in_Bloom 3.30 2535 Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood will leap for joy. And, to be fair, if you didn't get swept along in the divine madness of the Ya-Yas first time around, there's still plenty to hold your interest in this latest look at the Louisiana lives of the four gals and their increasingly blooming offspring, dahling. That's if you like your words candy-coated and sweet enough to calm a honey-bee. For the rest of us, a good flossing afterwards won't go amiss.

Rebecca Wells quite rightly recognises where her bread is buttered and delivers another slice of the four ladies and their inimitable style of living, hot on the high heels of a Hollywood script. Find out how the Ya-Yas first met, way back when, and how they got all grown-up and married. There's kids a plenty--well, for the sisterhood anyway and, against some odds, most of them turn out pretty decent folk.

Parts of Ya-Yas in Bloom is told from the point of view of Vivi Abbott Walker's children, particularly Siddalee and Baylor. So while we swing back in time to the thirties and the early days of the sisterhood, we also travel through the sixties and the arrival in the good ol' USA of four lads from Liverpool and on into the present day and the modern trials of career women.

There's even a plot of a kind, although not much to speak of--you can see it coming from afar--and its outcome is as predictable as Vivi's lipstick. It seems that if you're not in the sisterhood, then you're out. And life will just never be as much fun. ---Carey Green

]]> 2005 1 2 false Fri Sep 28 22:30:48 -0700 2007 Fri Sep 28 22:31:49 -0700 2007
don't read it, don't don't don't

but if you DO read it, make sure you read and fall in love with the first two books first]]> 738181 60306 544472 0060953659 9780060953652 22 <![CDATA[Ya-Yas in Bloom: A Novel]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1175663258m/544472.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1175663258s/544472.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/544472.Ya_Yas_in_Bloom_A_Novel 3.23 248 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.

Ya-Yas in Bloom reveals the roots of the Ya-Yas' friendship in the 1930s, following Vivi, Teensy, Caro and Necie through sixty 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 lead Vivi, Teensy, Caro, and Necie to become true sister-friends. Using as narration the alternating voices of Vivi and the Petite Ya-Yas, Siddalee and Baylor Walker, as well as other denizens of Thornton, Louisiana, Wells show us the Ya-Yas 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 Louisiana sass shine through.

But in the Ya-Yas' inimitable way, these four remarkable women also teach their children about the Mysteries: the wonder of snow in the deep South, the possibility that humans are made of stars, and the belief that miracles do happen. And they need a miracle when old grudges and wounded psyches lead to a heartbreaking crime...and the dynamic web of sisterhood is the only safety net strong enough to hold families together and endure.

After two bestsellers and a blockbuster movie, the Ya-Yas have become part of American culture -- icons for the power of women's friendship. Ya-Yas in Bloom continues the saga, giving us more Ya-Ya lore, spun out in the rich patois of the Louisiana bayou country and brim full of the Ya-Ya message to embrace life and each other with joy.

]]> 2005 1 1 false Sun Apr 15 20:30:40 -0700 2007 Tue Apr 17 14:32:47 -0700 2007 5290701 201413 137792 0007201095 9780007201099 173 <![CDATA[Ya Yas in Bloom]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172090848m/137792.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172090848s/137792.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/137792.Ya_Yas_in_Bloom 3.30 2535 Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood will leap for joy. And, to be fair, if you didn't get swept along in the divine madness of the Ya-Yas first time around, there's still plenty to hold your interest in this latest look at the Louisiana lives of the four gals and their increasingly blooming offspring, dahling. That's if you like your words candy-coated and sweet enough to calm a honey-bee. For the rest of us, a good flossing afterwards won't go amiss.

Rebecca Wells quite rightly recognises where her bread is buttered and delivers another slice of the four ladies and their inimitable style of living, hot on the high heels of a Hollywood script. Find out how the Ya-Yas first met, way back when, and how they got all grown-up and married. There's kids a plenty--well, for the sisterhood anyway and, against some odds, most of them turn out pretty decent folk.

Parts of Ya-Yas in Bloom is told from the point of view of Vivi Abbott Walker's children, particularly Siddalee and Baylor. So while we swing back in time to the thirties and the early days of the sisterhood, we also travel through the sixties and the arrival in the good ol' USA of four lads from Liverpool and on into the present day and the modern trials of career women.

There's even a plot of a kind, although not much to speak of--you can see it coming from afar--and its outcome is as predictable as Vivi's lipstick. It seems that if you're not in the sisterhood, then you're out. And life will just never be as much fun. ---Carey Green

]]> 2005 1 1 false Fri Apr 01 00:00:00 -0800 2005 Wed Aug 29 09:00:30 -0700 2007 Wed Aug 29 09:01:09 -0700 2007 11141656 698222 137792 0007201095 9780007201099 173 <![CDATA[Ya Yas in Bloom]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172090848m/137792.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172090848s/137792.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/137792.Ya_Yas_in_Bloom 3.30 2535 Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood will leap for joy. And, to be fair, if you didn't get swept along in the divine madness of the Ya-Yas first time around, there's still plenty to hold your interest in this latest look at the Louisiana lives of the four gals and their increasingly blooming offspring, dahling. That's if you like your words candy-coated and sweet enough to calm a honey-bee. For the rest of us, a good flossing afterwards won't go amiss.

Rebecca Wells quite rightly recognises where her bread is buttered and delivers another slice of the four ladies and their inimitable style of living, hot on the high heels of a Hollywood script. Find out how the Ya-Yas first met, way back when, and how they got all grown-up and married. There's kids a plenty--well, for the sisterhood anyway and, against some odds, most of them turn out pretty decent folk.

Parts of Ya-Yas in Bloom is told from the point of view of Vivi Abbott Walker's children, particularly Siddalee and Baylor. So while we swing back in time to the thirties and the early days of the sisterhood, we also travel through the sixties and the arrival in the good ol' USA of four lads from Liverpool and on into the present day and the modern trials of career women.

There's even a plot of a kind, although not much to speak of--you can see it coming from afar--and its outcome is as predictable as Vivi's lipstick. It seems that if you're not in the sisterhood, then you're out. And life will just never be as much fun. ---Carey Green

]]> 2005 1 1 false Tue Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2005 Fri Dec 28 06:34:33 -0800 2007 Fri Dec 28 06:37:15 -0800 2007 63206982 719092 137792 0007201095 9780007201099 173 <![CDATA[Ya Yas in Bloom]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172090848m/137792.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172090848s/137792.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/137792.Ya_Yas_in_Bloom 3.30 2535 Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood will leap for joy. And, to be fair, if you didn't get swept along in the divine madness of the Ya-Yas first time around, there's still plenty to hold your interest in this latest look at the Louisiana lives of the four gals and their increasingly blooming offspring, dahling. That's if you like your words candy-coated and sweet enough to calm a honey-bee. For the rest of us, a good flossing afterwards won't go amiss.

Rebecca Wells quite rightly recognises where her bread is buttered and delivers another slice of the four ladies and their inimitable style of living, hot on the high heels of a Hollywood script. Find out how the Ya-Yas first met, way back when, and how they got all grown-up and married. There's kids a plenty--well, for the sisterhood anyway and, against some odds, most of them turn out pretty decent folk.

Parts of Ya-Yas in Bloom is told from the point of view of Vivi Abbott Walker's children, particularly Siddalee and Baylor. So while we swing back in time to the thirties and the early days of the sisterhood, we also travel through the sixties and the arrival in the good ol' USA of four lads from Liverpool and on into the present day and the modern trials of career women.

There's even a plot of a kind, although not much to speak of--you can see it coming from afar--and its outcome is as predictable as Vivi's lipstick. It seems that if you're not in the sisterhood, then you're out. And life will just never be as much fun. ---Carey Green

]]> 2005 2 0 false Sat Nov 15 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sun Jul 12 18:12:09 -0700 2009 Sun Jul 12 18:12:58 -0700 2009 more...]]> 47029436 2056062 137792 0007201095 9780007201099 173 <![CDATA[Ya Yas in Bloom]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172090848m/137792.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172090848s/137792.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/137792.Ya_Yas_in_Bloom 3.30 2535 Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood will leap for joy. And, to be fair, if you didn't get swept along in the divine madness of the Ya-Yas first time around, there's still plenty to hold your interest in this latest look at the Louisiana lives of the four gals and their increasingly blooming offspring, dahling. That's if you like your words candy-coated and sweet enough to calm a honey-bee. For the rest of us, a good flossing afterwards won't go amiss.

Rebecca Wells quite rightly recognises where her bread is buttered and delivers another slice of the four ladies and their inimitable style of living, hot on the high heels of a Hollywood script. Find out how the Ya-Yas first met, way back when, and how they got all grown-up and married. There's kids a plenty--well, for the sisterhood anyway and, against some odds, most of them turn out pretty decent folk.

Parts of Ya-Yas in Bloom is told from the point of view of Vivi Abbott Walker's children, particularly Siddalee and Baylor. So while we swing back in time to the thirties and the early days of the sisterhood, we also travel through the sixties and the arrival in the good ol' USA of four lads from Liverpool and on into the present day and the modern trials of career women.

There's even a plot of a kind, although not much to speak of--you can see it coming from afar--and its outcome is as predictable as Vivi's lipstick. It seems that if you're not in the sisterhood, then you're out. And life will just never be as much fun. ---Carey Green

]]> 2005 2 0 false Mon Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sat Feb 21 02:18:59 -0800 2009 Sat Feb 21 10:55:23 -0800 2009 more...]]> 65183999 2546107 544472 0060953659 9780060953652 22 <![CDATA[Ya-Yas in Bloom: A Novel]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1175663258m/544472.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1175663258s/544472.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/544472.Ya_Yas_in_Bloom_A_Novel 3.30 2535 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.

Ya-Yas in Bloom reveals the roots of the Ya-Yas' friendship in the 1930s, following Vivi, Teensy, Caro and Necie through sixty 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 lead Vivi, Teensy, Caro, and Necie to become true sister-friends. Using as narration the alternating voices of Vivi and the Petite Ya-Yas, Siddalee and Baylor Walker, as well as other denizens of Thornton, Louisiana, Wells show us the Ya-Yas 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 Louisiana sass shine through.

But in the Ya-Yas' inimitable way, these four remarkable women also teach their children about the Mysteries: the wonder of snow in the deep South, the possibility that humans are made of stars, and the belief that miracles do happen. And they need a miracle when old grudges and wounded psyches lead to a heartbreaking crime...and the dynamic web of sisterhood is the only safety net strong enough to hold families together and endure.

After two bestsellers and a blockbuster movie, the Ya-Yas have become part of American culture -- icons for the power of women's friendship. Ya-Yas in Bloom continues the saga, giving us more Ya-Ya lore, spun out in the rich patois of the Louisiana bayou country and brim full of the Ya-Ya message to embrace life and each other with joy.

]]> 2005 4 0 false Mon Jul 27 16:21:36 -0700 2009 Mon Jul 27 18:29:11 -0700 2009 1
Ya-Yas in Bloom is told from multiple viewpoints, with some stand alone chapters. Other chapters offer multiple views of the same storyline. There is not a cohesive storyline tying everything together like there was in The Ya-Ya Sisterhoo...more...]]> 74821736 357673 882352 0007201109 9780007201105 8 <![CDATA[Ya-Yas in Bloom]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1179169787m/882352.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1179169787s/882352.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/882352.Ya_Yas_in_Bloom 3.26 23 Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood will leap for joy. And, to be fair, if you didn't get swept along in the divine madness of the Ya-Yas first time around, there's still plenty to hold your interest in this latest look at the Louisiana lives of the four gals and their increasingly blooming offspring, dahling. That's if you like your words candy-coated and sweet enough to calm a honey-bee. For the rest of us, a good flossing afterwards won't go amiss.

Rebecca Wells quite rightly recognises where her bread is buttered and delivers another slice of the four ladies and their inimitable style of living, hot on the high heels of a Hollywood script. Find out how the Ya-Yas first met, way back when, and how they got all grown-up and married. There's kids a plenty--well, for the sisterhood anyway and, against some odds, most of them turn out pretty decent folk.

Parts of Ya-Yas in Bloom is told from the point of view of Vivi Abbott Walker's children, particularly Siddalee and Baylor. So while we swing back in time to the thirties and the early days of the sisterhood, we also travel through the sixties and the arrival in the good ol' USA of four lads from Liverpool and on into the present day and the modern trials of career women.

There's even a plot of a kind, although not much to speak of--you can see it coming from afar--and its outcome is as predictable as Vivi's lipstick. It seems that if you're not in the sisterhood, then you're out. And life will just never be as much fun. ---Carey Green

]]> 2005 3 0 false Sat Oct 17 09:30:18 -0700 2009 Sat Oct 17 09:46:29 -0700 2009
I enjoy books like this, written from a perspective I can't even imagine by someone who grew up in a time and place so different from anything I'm familiar with, regardless of the plot. Which ...more...]]> 31742594 1483301 137792 0007201095 9780007201099 173 <![CDATA[Ya Yas in Bloom]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172090848m/137792.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172090848s/137792.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/137792.Ya_Yas_in_Bloom 3.30 2535 Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood will leap for joy. And, to be fair, if you didn't get swept along in the divine madness of the Ya-Yas first time around, there's still plenty to hold your interest in this latest look at the Louisiana lives of the four gals and their increasingly blooming offspring, dahling. That's if you like your words candy-coated and sweet enough to calm a honey-bee. For the rest of us, a good flossing afterwards won't go amiss.

Rebecca Wells quite rightly recognises where her bread is buttered and delivers another slice of the four ladies and their inimitable style of living, hot on the high heels of a Hollywood script. Find out how the Ya-Yas first met, way back when, and how they got all grown-up and married. There's kids a plenty--well, for the sisterhood anyway and, against some odds, most of them turn out pretty decent folk.

Parts of Ya-Yas in Bloom is told from the point of view of Vivi Abbott Walker's children, particularly Siddalee and Baylor. So while we swing back in time to the thirties and the early days of the sisterhood, we also travel through the sixties and the arrival in the good ol' USA of four lads from Liverpool and on into the present day and the modern trials of career women.

There's even a plot of a kind, although not much to speak of--you can see it coming from afar--and its outcome is as predictable as Vivi's lipstick. It seems that if you're not in the sisterhood, then you're out. And life will just never be as much fun. ---Carey Green

]]> 2005 4 0 false Mon Sep 01 12:30:13 -0700 2008 Mon Sep 01 12:30:28 -0700 2008
Then Teensy and Vivi ...more...]]> 11445367 40672 137792 0007201095 9780007201099 173 <![CDATA[Ya Yas in Bloom]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172090848m/137792.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172090848s/137792.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/137792.Ya_Yas_in_Bloom 3.30 2535 Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood will leap for joy. And, to be fair, if you didn't get swept along in the divine madness of the Ya-Yas first time around, there's still plenty to hold your interest in this latest look at the Louisiana lives of the four gals and their increasingly blooming offspring, dahling. That's if you like your words candy-coated and sweet enough to calm a honey-bee. For the rest of us, a good flossing afterwards won't go amiss.

Rebecca Wells quite rightly recognises where her bread is buttered and delivers another slice of the four ladies and their inimitable style of living, hot on the high heels of a Hollywood script. Find out how the Ya-Yas first met, way back when, and how they got all grown-up and married. There's kids a plenty--well, for the sisterhood anyway and, against some odds, most of them turn out pretty decent folk.

Parts of Ya-Yas in Bloom is told from the point of view of Vivi Abbott Walker's children, particularly Siddalee and Baylor. So while we swing back in time to the thirties and the early days of the sisterhood, we also travel through the sixties and the arrival in the good ol' USA of four lads from Liverpool and on into the present day and the modern trials of career women.

There's even a plot of a kind, although not much to speak of--you can see it coming from afar--and its outcome is as predictable as Vivi's lipstick. It seems that if you're not in the sisterhood, then you're out. And life will just never be as much fun. ---Carey Green

]]> 2005 2 0 false Sat Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Wed Jan 02 09:10:36 -0800 2008 Wed Jan 02 09:20:42 -0800 2008 more...]]> 75588642 2467151 137792 0007201095 9780007201099 173 <![CDATA[Ya Yas in Bloom]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172090848m/137792.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172090848s/137792.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/137792.Ya_Yas_in_Bloom 3.30 2535 Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood will leap for joy. And, to be fair, if you didn't get swept along in the divine madness of the Ya-Yas first time around, there's still plenty to hold your interest in this latest look at the Louisiana lives of the four gals and their increasingly blooming offspring, dahling. That's if you like your words candy-coated and sweet enough to calm a honey-bee. For the rest of us, a good flossing afterwards won't go amiss.

Rebecca Wells quite rightly recognises where her bread is buttered and delivers another slice of the four ladies and their inimitable style of living, hot on the high heels of a Hollywood script. Find out how the Ya-Yas first met, way back when, and how they got all grown-up and married. There's kids a plenty--well, for the sisterhood anyway and, against some odds, most of them turn out pretty decent folk.

Parts of Ya-Yas in Bloom is told from the point of view of Vivi Abbott Walker's children, particularly Siddalee and Baylor. So while we swing back in time to the thirties and the early days of the sisterhood, we also travel through the sixties and the arrival in the good ol' USA of four lads from Liverpool and on into the present day and the modern trials of career women.

There's even a plot of a kind, although not much to speak of--you can see it coming from afar--and its outcome is as predictable as Vivi's lipstick. It seems that if you're not in the sisterhood, then you're out. And life will just never be as much fun. ---Carey Green

]]> 2005 2 0 false Wed Jan 24 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Sat Oct 24 09:49:48 -0700 2009 Sat Oct 24 09:49:48 -0700 2009 more...]]> 38925722 1509104 882352 0007201109 9780007201105 8 <![CDATA[Ya-Yas in Bloom]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1179169787m/882352.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1179169787s/882352.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/882352.Ya_Yas_in_Bloom 3.30 2535 Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood will leap for joy. And, to be fair, if you didn't get swept along in the divine madness of the Ya-Yas first time around, there's still plenty to hold your interest in this latest look at the Louisiana lives of the four gals and their increasingly blooming offspring, dahling. That's if you like your words candy-coated and sweet enough to calm a honey-bee. For the rest of us, a good flossing afterwards won't go amiss.

Rebecca Wells quite rightly recognises where her bread is buttered and delivers another slice of the four ladies and their inimitable style of living, hot on the high heels of a Hollywood script. Find out how the Ya-Yas first met, way back when, and how they got all grown-up and married. There's kids a plenty--well, for the sisterhood anyway and, against some odds, most of them turn out pretty decent folk.

Parts of Ya-Yas in Bloom is told from the point of view of Vivi Abbott Walker's children, particularly Siddalee and Baylor. So while we swing back in time to the thirties and the early days of the sisterhood, we also travel through the sixties and the arrival in the good ol' USA of four lads from Liverpool and on into the present day and the modern trials of career women.

There's even a plot of a kind, although not much to speak of--you can see it coming from afar--and its outcome is as predictable as Vivi's lipstick. It seems that if you're not in the sisterhood, then you're out. And life will just never be as much fun. ---Carey Green

]]> 2005 4 0 false Sun Nov 30 01:51:46 -0800 2008 Sun Nov 30 02:01:03 -0800 2008 more...]]> 47911761 1364259 6685 069452574X 9780694525744 9 <![CDATA[Ya-Yas in Bloom CD]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1165604301m/6685.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1165604301s/6685.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6685.Ya_Yas_in_Bloom_CD 3.41 51 An emotionally charged addition to Rebecca Wells' award-winning bestseller Little Altars Everywhere and #1 New York Times bestseller Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood, Ya-Yas in Bloom reveals the roots of the Ya-Yas' friendship in the 1930s and roars through sixty years of marriage, children, 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 lead Vivi, Teensy, Caro, and Necie to become true sister-friends. Ya-Yas in Bloom shows us the Ya-Yas 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 at a time when the dynamic web of sisterhood is the only safety net strong enough to hold families together and endure.

Performed by Judith Ivey

]]> 2005 2 0 false Thu Apr 02 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Mar 01 13:16:23 -0800 2009 Thu Apr 02 13:32:35 -0700 2009 demanding that we LOVE the characters as much as she did, does that make sense? I found many of them h...more...]]> 20627583 1036503 137792 0007201095 9780007201099 173 <![CDATA[Ya Yas in Bloom]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172090848m/137792.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172090848s/137792.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/137792.Ya_Yas_in_Bloom 3.30 2535 Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood will leap for joy. And, to be fair, if you didn't get swept along in the divine madness of the Ya-Yas first time around, there's still plenty to hold your interest in this latest look at the Louisiana lives of the four gals and their increasingly blooming offspring, dahling. That's if you like your words candy-coated and sweet enough to calm a honey-bee. For the rest of us, a good flossing afterwards won't go amiss.

Rebecca Wells quite rightly recognises where her bread is buttered and delivers another slice of the four ladies and their inimitable style of living, hot on the high heels of a Hollywood script. Find out how the Ya-Yas first met, way back when, and how they got all grown-up and married. There's kids a plenty--well, for the sisterhood anyway and, against some odds, most of them turn out pretty decent folk.

Parts of Ya-Yas in Bloom is told from the point of view of Vivi Abbott Walker's children, particularly Siddalee and Baylor. So while we swing back in time to the thirties and the early days of the sisterhood, we also travel through the sixties and the arrival in the good ol' USA of four lads from Liverpool and on into the present day and the modern trials of career women.

There's even a plot of a kind, although not much to speak of--you can see it coming from afar--and its outcome is as predictable as Vivi's lipstick. It seems that if you're not in the sisterhood, then you're out. And life will just never be as much fun. ---Carey Green

]]> 2005 3 0 false Sat Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2005 Mon Apr 21 05:30:39 -0700 2008 Sat Jun 07 12:45:02 -0700 2008 more...]]> 45101579 1983572 137792 0007201095 9780007201099 173 <![CDATA[Ya Yas in Bloom]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172090848m/137792.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172090848s/137792.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/137792.Ya_Yas_in_Bloom 3.30 2535 Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood will leap for joy. And, to be fair, if you didn't get swept along in the divine madness of the Ya-Yas first time around, there's still plenty to hold your interest in this latest look at the Louisiana lives of the four gals and their increasingly blooming offspring, dahling. That's if you like your words candy-coated and sweet enough to calm a honey-bee. For the rest of us, a good flossing afterwards won't go amiss.

Rebecca Wells quite rightly recognises where her bread is buttered and delivers another slice of the four ladies and their inimitable style of living, hot on the high heels of a Hollywood script. Find out how the Ya-Yas first met, way back when, and how they got all grown-up and married. There's kids a plenty--well, for the sisterhood anyway and, against some odds, most of them turn out pretty decent folk.

Parts of Ya-Yas in Bloom is told from the point of view of Vivi Abbott Walker's children, particularly Siddalee and Baylor. So while we swing back in time to the thirties and the early days of the sisterhood, we also travel through the sixties and the arrival in the good ol' USA of four lads from Liverpool and on into the present day and the modern trials of career women.

There's even a plot of a kind, although not much to speak of--you can see it coming from afar--and its outcome is as predictable as Vivi's lipstick. It seems that if you're not in the sisterhood, then you're out. And life will just never be as much fun. ---Carey Green

]]> 2005 2 0 false Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Sun Feb 01 20:39:36 -0800 2009 Mon Feb 02 07:36:47 -0800 2009 more...]]> 72343005 2623473 137792 0007201095 9780007201099 173 <![CDATA[Ya Yas in Bloom]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172090848m/137792.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172090848s/137792.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/137792.Ya_Yas_in_Bloom 3.30 2535 Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood will leap for joy. And, to be fair, if you didn't get swept along in the divine madness of the Ya-Yas first time around, there's still plenty to hold your interest in this latest look at the Louisiana lives of the four gals and their increasingly blooming offspring, dahling. That's if you like your words candy-coated and sweet enough to calm a honey-bee. For the rest of us, a good flossing afterwards won't go amiss.

Rebecca Wells quite rightly recognises where her bread is buttered and delivers another slice of the four ladies and their inimitable style of living, hot on the high heels of a Hollywood script. Find out how the Ya-Yas first met, way back when, and how they got all grown-up and married. There's kids a plenty--well, for the sisterhood anyway and, against some odds, most of them turn out pretty decent folk.

Parts of Ya-Yas in Bloom is told from the point of view of Vivi Abbott Walker's children, particularly Siddalee and Baylor. So while we swing back in time to the thirties and the early days of the sisterhood, we also travel through the sixties and the arrival in the good ol' USA of four lads from Liverpool and on into the present day and the modern trials of career women.

There's even a plot of a kind, although not much to speak of--you can see it coming from afar--and its outcome is as predictable as Vivi's lipstick. It seems that if you're not in the sisterhood, then you're out. And life will just never be as much fun. ---Carey Green

]]> 2005 4 0 false Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Thu Sep 24 09:18:48 -0700 2009 Thu Sep 24 09:23:20 -0700 2009 more...]]> 26694588 320154 137792 0007201095 9780007201099 173 <![CDATA[Ya Yas in Bloom]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172090848m/137792.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172090848s/137792.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/137792.Ya_Yas_in_Bloom 3.30 2535 Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood will leap for joy. And, to be fair, if you didn't get swept along in the divine madness of the Ya-Yas first time around, there's still plenty to hold your interest in this latest look at the Louisiana lives of the four gals and their increasingly blooming offspring, dahling. That's if you like your words candy-coated and sweet enough to calm a honey-bee. For the rest of us, a good flossing afterwards won't go amiss.

Rebecca Wells quite rightly recognises where her bread is buttered and delivers another slice of the four ladies and their inimitable style of living, hot on the high heels of a Hollywood script. Find out how the Ya-Yas first met, way back when, and how they got all grown-up and married. There's kids a plenty--well, for the sisterhood anyway and, against some odds, most of them turn out pretty decent folk.

Parts of Ya-Yas in Bloom is told from the point of view of Vivi Abbott Walker's children, particularly Siddalee and Baylor. So while we swing back in time to the thirties and the early days of the sisterhood, we also travel through the sixties and the arrival in the good ol' USA of four lads from Liverpool and on into the present day and the modern trials of career women.

There's even a plot of a kind, although not much to speak of--you can see it coming from afar--and its outcome is as predictable as Vivi's lipstick. It seems that if you're not in the sisterhood, then you're out. And life will just never be as much fun. ---Carey Green

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