OK OK so the title is Ya-Yas in Bloom, I like my version better, don’t you? Other than the title, which I thought was kind of dumb, I loved the latest Ya-Ya installment. Can I really call it an installment since these aren’t the sort of books that pick up where the others left off? Whatever, I liked it.
I hated Little Altars and spent a lot of time thinking Rebecca Wells should have quit while she was ahead. Well I’ve changed my mind, she should have written in Bloom and skipped the darn Altars instead! The Ya-Ya’s are a dysfunctional group of women and that stems from dysfunctional family life and leads to dysfunctional family life – we know that, we don’t need the darkness of a book like Little Altars Everywhere to tell us that.
Oops, I’ve rambled off into a rant about the Altars – that happens anytime someone mentions the Ya-Yas to me. I need to practice rambling about how much I loved Ya-Yas in Bloom instead. Because I did. Love it.
(And I loved that Wells including my pal Brenda in her acknowledgements. Cool.)
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Hmmm I read this sometime over the summer. I did in fact skip over Little Altars. I remember I liked it but can’t remember if I loved it. It was pre-book blogging.
I had passed this one by, it didn’t get the greatest reviews. But since you loved it, I picked up the audio version with Judith Ivey reading it. It’s a little harder to follow listening rather than reading when time jumps, but I’m still loving it a little ways in. I’m getting a better sense of who Vivi and all the yayas are.