false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1179169787m/882352.jpg 137792 19 Those sassy southern belle-dames are back. Hallelujah. Fans of the <i>Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood</i> 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.<P>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. <P>Parts of <i>Ya-Yas in Bloom</i> 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. <P>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. ---<I>Carey Green</I> 1358863 3 5 2005 Ya Yas in Bloom total:2525|5:321|4:703|3:1007|2:399|1:95| 2525 8331 3305 216 137792 0007201095 9780007201099 2162 172 3.30 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172090848m/137792.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/137792.Ya_Yas_in_Bloom 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...]]> 137792 0007201095 9780007201099 2162 172 3.30 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172090848m/137792.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/137792.Ya_Yas_in_Bloom 1 2 false Sun Apr 08 21:08:31 -0700 2007 Sun Apr 08 21:10:50 -0700 2007 more...]]> 882355 0060195347 9780060195342 27 3 3.30 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1179169788m/882355.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/882355.Ya_Yas_in_Bloom 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...

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