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Summary: Good chick book
Review: Normally I go for Clancy, Vince Flynn and Nelson DeMille but this is a good, light summer read. Guys shouldn't bother - this is definitely a chick book - but the ladies will enjoy it. I got annoyed by the ending - it was pretty abrupt and you never find out what happened to Caitlin. However, the Somers' were a good portrayal of a rich, eccentric family and Vix's family was dead-on realistic. And sometimes extraordinary girls like Vix do fall for shallow boys like Bru.
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Summary: Emotional Rollercoaster!!!
Review: Summer Sisters was an amazing book! I had trouble putting it down! The book was a little wierd at times especially when the subject of "the power" was brought up. Minus the parts about "the power" that the girls shared between them I thought this book related well to girls because most of us girls have a close friend that we spend lots of time with and whom we never get sick of. I read this book during the summer and I really felt like I was a part of Vix and Caitlin's summers, their memories and the fun times they shared reminded me of times well spent during my past summers. Judy Blume captures the lives of these two teenagers at an awkward stage in their lives yet she displays their characters beautifully in a way that she makes them feel real to the reader. Everyone I believe goes through a stage in their lives where they want to be someone else, Vix has always been fond of Caitlin and she loves her summers on the Vinyard because she gets to live in the world that Caitlin lives in everyday, Vix is able to escape her everyday pressures by sliping into Caitlin's care free world. This novel makes the reader feel a little of evey emotion, from laughter and crying to jealousy and anger, I find that the emotions a reader feels while reading a novel is what makes a book so enjoyable.
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Summary: Beautiful, nostalgic book
Review: This book spans the relationship of two girls -- the wealthy Caitlin and the underprivileged Vix. This follows them from the summer of 1977 to the summer of 1996. Cait and Vix meet in school when Cait asks Vix to accompany her to her father's house in the Vineyard. After that, Caitlin's life was never the same again. Vix is smart, observant, maybe even a little shy while Caitlin is vivacious, outgoing, and opinionated.Most of the book is told from Vix's POV with subchapters from some of the supporting characters POV. However, Caitlin never gets a subchapter. We're left to figure her out from Vix's reactions to her and the reactions of the other characters. Caitlin gets a lot of reaction for her "don't care" attitude. This book is about so much more than the relationship between two friends. It also focused on the complexities of relationships between women, women and men, between parents and children, etc. And then, there's the usual growing pains mixed into this story making it an excellent read. A few things that annoyed me with this story was the contrived ending. It seemed almost as if Blume was trying to make her readers feel sorry for Caitlin. I didn't. I felt more sorry for Vix. And another personal grievance was the way that Vix kept on forgiving even when Cait did the unthinkable. I think this irked me because I know firsthand what it's like to keep forgiving a person who keeps breaking your heart. Other than that, loved this book. I read it in one sitting. This book made me nostalgic for some of my own friends.
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Summary: Seemingly Simple... But Not! A Story of Deep Friendship.
Review: This book started off as a simple 'beach book' romance type for me. However, as I read I realized it was following my own 'junior high' school life. The music and style reflected in the book took me back in time; and that is what kept me reading. I really felt this story ; this time in life. Two friends of very different backgrounds spend many summers together on Martha's Vinyard. They are from New Mexico ... a very different world. Caitlin who lives with her divorced Mom in NM meets Vix, the oldest of a hard-working blue collar family. Caitin invites Vix to the shore for the summer; Vix's parents, reluctanctly agree. The 'summer sisters' continue their summer world together for years to come. This is the beginning and crux of this novel. These two young women sharing their adolescence, their young adulthood, their struggles and their accomplished adulthood... all the while maintaining their childhood bond. A story that makes one think of their own ties.... ties that forever live ... regardless of lifes turning points.
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Summary: Summer Sisters....
Review: This book was great from page one until the end. I was hooked. It is about a friendship and when you learn more about Catlin the more you ask yourself why is she and Vix are even friends. Their friendship is full of adventure, heartbreak, love and the family situtation is just created by amazing writing. I don't want to say much about this book because it is best to read it yourself. I will say that Judy Blume's book is brilliant!
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Summary: Who spends that much time with their ankles behind her ears?
Review: This is typical fluff. Stolen boyfriends with a bit of lesbianism thrown in to boot. (I wonder if the author was trying to tell us that she had had such relationships earlier in her life by dedicating the book to her "summer sister.")
The reading was very light and very easy.
I don't think that the experience that people have with "moth to the flame" human relationships is quite as dramatic as all that.
This is something good to do on a rainy afternon when you don't feel like going out or want to be challenged by overly deep characters and plots of great complexity.
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Summary: Very moving, impossible-to-put-down book!!!!
Review: This was a great book, obviously intended for the adult reader. I found the relationship between Vix and Caitlin both very special and wonderful, yet incredibly heart-breaking at the same time. As someone in the book says, I honestly believe most of us have had a friend like Caitlin. While there was no real insight into why Caitlin turned into such an irresponsible, cruel adult, we can indeed speculate. She had no real family unit, as her mother was so free-spirited and flitting from boyfriend to boyfriend. Her father she only saw during the summers. Thus, there was a definite lack of parental attention and supervision. This story is also about why people hold on to that one friend who keeps breaking your heart. The story doesn't explain why Vix doesn't break ties with Caitlin, and there doesn't seem to be an answer to this question in real-life relationships such as this. I found this book hard to put down, and really hated for it to end. Judy Blume has always had a special place in my heart, as I read her books growing up and it's obvious that she really understands all the pain and different emotions people experience in life, from childhood through adulthood.
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