TLC Blog Tour For "The Weird Sisters" by Eleanor Brown

The Weird Sisters by Eleanor Brown is being talked about everywhere I turn around, and guess what? It lives up to the hype and then some! It is fantabulous! (Totally made up word, I know, I had to resort to making up words for this one!)

Nothing I say is going to adequately describe it, but I'll try to at least give you some idea of how great it is. It's the story of three sisters, Rose, Bean, and Cordy. Well, those are their nicknames that they prefer to go by. Those aren't their names their father gave them. Their father, you see, lives and breathes William Shakespeare. So, the after mentioned sisters' real names are actually Rosalind, Bianca, and Cordelia. Each daughter feeling they have a name that has already been lived-in and owned, and that they must live up to. And, each one feeling they must live up their particular "sister" role.

Ok. I want to tell you so much more, but I want to stick with my rule not to give away too much plot detail. You need to read this book for yourself. You need to meet these sisters for yourself and get to know this family, because honestly, there is no real way to appreciate them without reading it for yourself! I hope you love them as much as I did!

I VERY highly recommend this book! It is one that outshines the rest and stands in a category all its own! I am an only child and don't have any sisters, but I feel like I do now, and I already miss the weird sisters. I grew so attached to them by the end of the book that I actually found myself teary-eyed when it was over just because I didn't want it to end, and just because it was just that good. And, that doesn't happen very often for me! It's one of those that you'll want to keep for your library and you'll want to tell everyone you know about it, but you won't want to give them your copy!  ;)

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Book Summary:

The Andreas sisters were raised on books – their family motto might as well be, ‘There’s no problem a library card can’t solve.’ Their father, a renowned, eccentric professor of Shakespearean studies, named them after three of the Bard’s most famous characters: Rose (Rosalind – As You Like It), Bean (Bianca – The Taming of the Shrew), and Cordy (Cordelia – King Lear), but they have inherited those characters’ failures along with their strengths.


Now the sisters have returned home to the small college town where they grew up – partly because their mother is ill, but mostly because their lives are falling apart and they don’t know where to go next. Rose, a staid mathematics professor, has the chance to break away from her quiet life and join her devoted fiance in England, if she could only summon up the courage to do more than she’s thought she could. Bean left home as soon as she could, running to the glamour of New York City, only to come back ashamed of the person she has become. And Cordy, who has been wandering the country for years, has been brought back to earth with a resounding thud, realizing it’s finally time for her to grow up.

The sisters never thought they would find the answers to their problems in each other, but over the course of one long summer, they find that everything they’ve been running from – each other, their histories, and their small hometown – might offer more than they ever expected.


Read an excerpt here.

Buy this book here.



Author Bio:

Born and raised in the Washington, D.C. area, Eleanor has lived in St. Paul, San Francisco, Philadelphia, South Florida, and Oxford, London, and Brighton, England. She works in educational technology and lives in Colorado with her partner, writer and new media superstar, J.C. Hutchins.


Eleanor’s writing has appeared in anthologies, journals, magazines, and newspapers. The Weird Sisters, her first novel, will be published by Amy Einhorn Books on January 20, 2011.

Connect with Eleanor:

On her website, blog, on Facebook, and on Twitter.




This book was provided for review by Amy Einhorn Books/Putnam Publishing.