Summer Sisters

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Summary: NOT a good book!
Review: The characters were so underdeveloped, and the plotline was unbelievable in several places. How did Caitlin make it to Harvard? Unless she was unbelievably intelligent (which was never brought out or mentioned), I doubt this would've happened. Also, some details were simply not correct -- for instance, Victoria's Secret had not even become a store yet in the early 80's, much less started putting out a catalog! The story seemed obsessed with sex, and I just got tired of it.

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Summary: awsome book
Review: As a teenager of 16, i related to this book very very well. i have a summer sister of my own and this actually reflected our childhood together. This story of 2 best friends, living two totally different lives, grow up together and find time for eachother once a year, at the Vinyard. They meet guyz, meet friends, and is basically the only time they ever talk. One is a popular snob at school, the other a "brain" of knowledge. If you enjoy novels with comedy, love, hardships and intense/sexual moments, then you will definately enjoy this book, "Summer Sisters".

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Summary: I wish i shouldn't buy it
Review: No character depth.Style in prose is totally plain.Deal with sex obsession a lot.If you want to read something like romance fiction, i reccomend you to go for this book.but if you want some thing more real and "growing-up" like the book seem to be, don't ever trade your falling eyesight with this one.

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Summary: It leaves you wanting more
Review: this is my favorite book, the best book i've read to date, i highly recommend it, you really get attached to the characters! i want a sequal!

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Summary: The Best of Friends
Review: The Best of Friends

Judy Blume' s Summer Sisters is a book I would read over and over again. I give this book a rating of five stars. It is a book that will make you realize how important best friends are to a person. The book is about two girls who become the best friends over the summer and who spend every summer on the vineyard. They go through love and lust. They have the best of times and help each other through the worst, yet hate each other at times. Anyone who has a best friend and knows how hard it is to hold on would like to read this book. A young person or an adult would like this book. It is a book that can help you through some hard times and make you realize how important friends can be. The theme of this book is that you have to cherish the friends that you have and don't take advantage of them. You have to respect people and treat them like gold.

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Summary: Amazing
Review: I read Summer Sisters when I was having a hard time with my best friend. Reading the book helped me get over my friendship that was falling apart. This book is amazing, and out of all the books I 've read it's one of the best. The characters are well developed and interesting. I see a lot of my former friend in Vix and a lot of myself in Caitln. Summer Sisters is an amazing book that everyone should read.

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Summary: Girls, women, sisters & everyone who wants2 believe in "NBO"
Review: I gave a copy to my best friend, my sister, my cousin and my other friends--all of them loved it and this is no surprise! Sure, this may not be 'literature' but it's a nostaligc, romantic memoir about two women, Vix and Caitlin, both so different who are both very close until Caitlin comes up with a manipulative ploy which has Vix wondering just who is this girl? Fast forward eight years and Caitlin is marrying Vix's 'man'...what's with this? Sad, funny and poignant, i enjoyed this book immensely.

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Summary: A Disappointment
Review: I should start out by saying that my memories of reading Judy Blume's books as a child are some of the best memories I have. I've reread some of her books as an adult and still feel the same way about them (e.g., Are you there God, it's me, Margaret). With that said, I did not enjoy this book. Although it appears that I am in the distinct minority on this, I found the plot and characters to be uninteresting and unbelievable. Even worse, I didn't like any of the characters, especially Vix. The story of Caitlin and Vix read more like Lifetime Television for Women than engrossing fiction for the adult part of us in need of the insight and perfect characterization of Judy Blume. Initially the story was engaging and I enjoyed the depictions of the girls' friendship and the well-drawn characterizations of their very different families as these two girls became summer sisters. Unfortunately, as these girls became women, I couldn't help but be a little suspicious about their development. I just didn't buy that Vix, a Harvard-educated, overachieving, mature (as evidenced by her sensitivity towards Nathan and her family), New York City career girl would give a hoot about a high school/college romance she had with a veritable beach bum. I can't believe that all that Vix had experienced and achieved since those summers spent on the Vineyard wouldn't color her perceptions at all. Sure, I can believe that old roles, expectations and hurts from childhood play on and on into adulthood, but she deserved to develop more as a human being. As for Caitlin, I found her character to be boring, poorly drawn and desperately in need of a job (people who've got to make the bacon can't afford to be so damn dramatic). In the end, I guess I feel a little cheated because the characters here deserved better than to remain summer sisters forever.

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Summary: Another great book by Judy Blume!!
Review: On a family trip I found myself without a book. We made a special trip into the nearest store to grab something for me to read. My family barely saw me again for the next 48 hours! What a wonderful book I truly couldn't put it down and when I tried to I found myself running back to it as fast as I could.

Summer Sisters is one of the best books I've read in a long time. You get to follow these two women who start life on much different paths yet have them converge for a time only to spread apart again. In the beginning they are scared adolescents who explore their curiosities about life together. You follow their discovery of their deep and unending love for each other that lasts through times and trials. In the two decade time span they search for their own identity only to find it intertwined in the others. It illustrates how one simple act can change the life of another forever and how that change can affect those around them.

I know there has to be many of us that can identify with the friendship Vix and Caitlyn have. Even as adults when our lives have taken different paths there is that one special friend that you can call in the middle of the night and they will be as glad to hear your voice as if you called in the middle of the day. This book will make you want to call that friend just to hear her voice again.

As a child Judy Blume never let me down when it came to my need for a good read or a good lesson and as an adult she still hasn't! Just one warning read the ending alone with a healthy supply of tissues handy!

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Summary: An honest, mature, and careful handling of difficult themes
Review: As superb as Blume's young adult ficition is, 'Summer Sisters', aimed at a more adult audience, is even better. I would recommend it to anyone. For men to understand women, for women to understand themselves, for children to get a glimpse of adulthood, for adults to remember adolescence... the list goes on. While some reviewers did not recommend this novel for younger readers (under fourteen or so), I do. Children are introduced to sex at an extremely early age, much earlier than most people realize. Since this exposure is constantly occurring, children form unusual and sometimes unrealistic ideas about sex, adolescence, and adults. 'Summer Sisters' is a honest, mature, and careful handling of difficult, adult subjects. Perhaps, for some children, it could answer some hidden questions and dispel untold myths. Therefore, if a child or young adult is able to handle the reading level then I feel they can handle the content. If they cannot handle the reading then there is no reason to worry; they will put down the book in confusion or boredom before any content issues surface. Anyone who wishes to gain insight on adolescence, especially female, will enjoy and appreciate this novel.