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The Weird Sisters

de Eleanor Brown

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Unwillingly brought together to care for their ailing mother, three sisters who were named after famous Shakespearean characters discover that everything they have been avoiding may prove more worthwhile than expected.
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This is Ok as far as it goes, the story of 3 sisters who all end up back at their parents house having made a series of mistakes and needing to regroup. They're the daughters of a Shakespeare professor and their names as well as their conversation is peppered with quotes from the bard. Its not terribly adventurous, with the various conundrums being played out and tied up in a big bow at the end. The thing that really go on my nerves was thew style of the telling. It is written in the third person plural, as if being told by the sisters as a collective. but you'll have a paragraph about one sister and then suddenly a sentence or part sentence in the third person and it just read very oddly. The story wasn't strong enough to get over the grammatical quirk and I found it hard to get engaged with the sisters on that basis. ( )
  Helenliz | Feb 16, 2024 |
Quite good and reasonably well-written. Predictable, but I enjoyed it and will be on the lookout for the author's second book. ( )
  medwyn1066 | Nov 28, 2023 |
"You did bring a book, didn't you?" p 69

I liked the way Brown crafted her sentences. I also liked that I could relate to a character quite strongly.

There was a decided lack of pop-culture references, which was quite refreshing. Some of the actual plot points were unbelievable to begin with, though, and the ending tied things up too neatly and easily for everyone involved.

But it was an easy, light read that made me glad I'm a reader - and thankful that I get along well with my siblings.

Note: There is a fair amount of profanity and sexual references.

"Would [she always be] chasing some shadow of the way things were Supposed to Be? There were days, yes, when [she] felt as though she had been on this earth forever....but she knew she was young. It seemed so early to have signed her whole life away, but it seemed so exhausting to change anything." p 110 ( )
  RachelRachelRachel | Nov 21, 2023 |
A great story about family dynamics and expectations, the abrupt ending disarmed me - I was not ready to say goodbye to the Weird Sisters. ( )
  muffinbutt1027 | Apr 26, 2023 |
Three daughters of a Shakespeare professor come back home as adults when their mother is diagnosed with breast cancer. Living in the small Ohio college town and under the same roof again after so many years isn't not difficult, and all of their secrets start leaking out.

From the start I suspected that the imaginary small Ohio town was based on Gambier (home of Kenyon College), and lo, I was (half) right! The author has been quoted as saying that she based the town and the college within it on a mix of Kenyon and Oberlin! That made the book extra-fun for me, but it's also just a great read. The relationships between the sisters ring true, as do each of their own struggles and triumphs. The myriad nods to Shakespeare's plays throughout are a fantastic touch, too. Definitely recommended. ( )
  electrascaife | Mar 24, 2023 |
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"Indeed, The Weird Sisters is a book worth celebrating. Because their father is a renowned Shakespearean scholar, the Andreas family communicates largely through the words of the Bard. It is not unusual for them to drop Shakespearean quotes into a conversation about, say, wedding rings or what to eat for breakfast."
afegit per clamairy | editaBookPage, Amy Scribner (Mar 2, 2011)
 
There are times when the sisters are exasperated by the burden imposed on them. “Sometimes we had the overwhelming urge to grab our father by the shoulders and shake him until the meaning of his obtuse quotations fell from his mouth like loosened teeth,” they say. Readers may sometimes feel similarly about Ms. Brown but more often appreciate the good sense and good humor that keep her story buoyant. She does have storytelling talent. Or, to quote one of the Weird Sisters quoting you-know-who: “This is a gift that I have; simple, simple.”
afegit per CSMcMahon | editaNew York Times, Janet Maslin (Jan 16, 2011)
 
Eleanor Brown's likable debut novel is the story of three grown sisters who return home when their mother falls ill.....The first third of the book moves slowly, with too much explanation of who the sisters are, and too much insistence on how different each is from the other, and a sort of bulky setting-up of their rather implausible situations, and -- enough, already! Get the story moving! And when it does start moving, it is a delight.

 

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But we only called the fire brigade, and soon the fire engine came and three tall men in helmets brought a hose into the house and Mr. Prothero got out just in time before they turned it on. Nobody could have had a noisier Christmas Eve. And when the firemen turned off the hose and were standing in the wet, smoky room, Jim's Aunt, Miss Prothero, came downstairs and peered in at them. Jim and I waited, very quietly, to hear what she would say to them. She said the right thing, always. She looked at the three tall firemen in their shining helmets, standing among the smoke and cinders and dissolving snowballs, and she said, "Would you like anything to read?" —DYLAN THOMAS, A Child's Christmas In Wales
I dreamt last night of the three weird sisters. —WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, Macbeth
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She never managed to find herself in these books no matter how she tried, exhuming traits from between the pages and donning them for an hour, a day, a week. We think, in some ways, we have all done this our whole lives, searching for the book that will give us the keys to ourselves, let us into a wholly formed personality as though it were a furnished room to let. As though we could walk in and look around and say to the gray-haired landlady behind us, "We'll take it."
We were fairly certain that if anyone made public the various and variegated ways in which being an adult sucked eggs, more people might opt out entirely.
She narrowed her eyes and considered the array of potential answers in front of her. Because I don't spend hours flippping through cable complaining there's nothing on? Because my entire Sunday is not eaten up with pre-game, in-game, and post-game talking heads? Because I do not spend every night drinking overpriced beer and engaging dick-swinging contests with the other financirati? Because when I am waiting in line, at the gym, on the train, eating lunch, I am not complaining about the wait/staring into space/admiring myself in available reflective surfaces? I am reading!
What if the name you were given had already been lived in?
He was not a reader. And that was the sort of nonsense up with which we will not put.
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