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Wednesday Sisters (2008)

by Meg Waite Clayton(Favorite Author)

3.48 of 5 Votes: 2

ISBN

0345507843 (ISBN13: 9780345507846)

languge

English

genre

Historical Fiction

publisher

Random House Publishing Group

series

Wednesday

review 1: I really wanted to like this book. It's about friendship, the 60's and 70's, motherhood and marriage, and writing. What's not to like? Well, for one thing, a book that tried too hard to promote a point of view (feminism) with somewhat wooden, cookie cutter characters and very stilted dialogue (who says "Heaven's to Betsy"???). There were some moments of good writing -- when the main character and narrator described a story she wrote that was based on her own experience of not being allowed to go to college because of her father's pride and her mother's weakness, it was moving and poignant. The author's description too of Frankie's marriage and it's ups and downs also rang mostly true. But the things that were supposed to be funny -- I only knew that because the charac... moreters laughed. They weren't really funny. And the ending was so rushed! Why is she writing about these years (which spanned the late 60s and the early to mid 70s) 35 years in the future? Especially because after the climactic event, nothing more ever happened? No other books were written? No more babies? And Kath's marriage? The resolution to that was just so incredibly unbelievable. It's almost as though Ms. Clayton simply got tired of her book and wanted to end it, which is incredibly rude to her readers who have invested their time and money in this book.
review 2: Although the story line was not complex, I found myself really wanting to be a part of this group of women....but then I started to get stressed about how I could fit one more thing into my life if I really tried to take up writing with the intent of publishing. It was a wonderful story of deep friendship that can carry you through any life trial. Think Ya Ya sisterhood with less crazy antics and more intellectual conversation. less

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