Summer Sisters

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Summary: Must Read
Review: ... this summer I read this book. I thoroughly enjoyed it. Though some parts can be quite risque, the book is wonderful. It brings back so many memories of my best friend and I she has also now moved away. Blume is a great writer and obviously if you have read any of her books, she is not afraid to tell it like it is! Sharing this book with my friends they all related to each character at sometime or another in the story. Both characters make you love them, and you will see a lot of yourself in each girl. It will make you laugh out loud one minute at how genuinly funny and sad the thoughts children and teens can be! This book will bring back many memories for you and even a few tears! The two girls spend their lives trying to figure out boys, thier parents, siblings, and themselves though some of the toughest times in their lives and NEVER BE ORDINARY. The end will suprise you, make you cry, and who knows what else! Judy Blume has broken a lot of boundries with her writing and once again with this book has done it!! Enjoy!!!

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Summary: Summer Sisters
Review: Have you ever had a friend that you loved and hated all at the same time? How can two girls be completely opposites and run different lives, but still manage to be best friends? Well that is just the beginning of Vix and Cailin's relationship in the very entertaining book, Summer Sisters. Best friends are never supposed to betray each other either, right? Caitlin, on the other hand, has different morals. The heartbreaks of all the relationships going on all started when some boys get involved. This book goes through the stages of a girl's life and what becomes of it. Caitlin is in a phase in her life where she wanted to meet new people and travel around the world to explore, and this is when Vix and Caitlin grow further apart. Vix is in the stage of her life where she needs to know where is heading in life and Caitlin has trouble accepting that. If you like to read about conflicts between people this would be the number one book to read. This book will keep you focused on what exactly is going on. If you like soap operas, this is definitely the book for you. This is a book you will never want to set down. You will always want to know what is going to happen next. The ending is so unbelievable you will be shocked!

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Summary: Growing
Review: As Judy Blume as one of my favorite writers it was very easy for me to enjoy this book. Oh God are you there? It's me Margret was my all-time favorite book so reading another Judy Blume book was great fun. This book shows so much love and friendship and at the same time suspense. You begin the journey with Vix and Caitlin right from the beginning. From their first summer trip together you can see the closeness they hold in eachother. The times they share make them grow so much. But like all things times change and people sometimes grow apart. This example occurs between Vix and Caitlin although they hold their long distance friendship together til the end. They go through many difficult experiences and are challenged with sometimes wild adventures. This book is so vivid and descriptive that you are torn to put it down. I would recommend this book to anyone over the age of 13 because it is quite descriptive about certain topics. I absoultely loved this book and have read it again after I had to read it for class.

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Summary: A good read...
Review: ...but hardly great literature. I read it in one sitting, on a cross-country plane trip. An interesting, compelling story, with well-crafted characters many readers will find familiar. Sexual concepts too advanced for Blume's young adult fans.

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Summary: The best book I've read all year
Review: I absolutely loved this book, I couldn't put it down. Its one of those books that completely draws you into the story and keeps you wanting more. Judy Blume had dazzled me with her books since I was a very young, I can't wait to read more of her novels geared toward an adult audience.

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Summary: I loved this book!
Review: I absolutely couldn't put this book down until i had finished it. I am fourteen and I can totally relate to Vix when she was fourteen. I am a mix of vix and Caitlin because I can be naiive like Vix yet outgoing and silly like Caitlin. I read this book and both cried and laughed. I am surprised Judy Blume is not a teenager because she so accurately portrays the life of a young adult. I loved the characters like Gus and Lamb and Paisley! I totally predicted that Vix would fall in love with Gus and that Bru wouldn't work out. I recommend this book to anyone under 25 and over 12. It is a perfect book to read at the beach or on a cold day when you wish you could be at the vineyard with the charachters! Thank you Judy Blume for writing such an enjoyable book!

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Summary: the best book ive ever read!!
Review: omg, i LOVE this book. i actually started laughing out loud through alot of it, i got angry w/ the characters and sad with them. the only thing is that i got the title under young adult, and i sort of got in trouble because it was a little...graphic. anyways i lOVED it and i think everyone should read it!

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Summary: Loved her as a teenager...
Review: Judy Blume was my absolute favorite writer when I was under 19 (a dozen or so years ago) and I was thrilled when I saw that she had written what was marketed as an adult novel. However I was less than thrilled after I read it. I think "light" in every respect would be the best way to decribe this book. She should go back to writing what she does best: the angst of teenagers. Be it their first love, first boyfriends, all the juicy stuff that teenage girls love to read.

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Summary: Good Plane Book
Review: I wasn't looking forward to a business trip and said to one of my students, "I need something to read." She handed me SUMMER SISTERS. I have never read any of Blume's work and was impressed with her ability to portray the characters' feelings with the written word. She is a crafty writer in more ways than one. If you read this book while on a plane, you'll forget where you are. Blume's writing will enable your mind to leave your body and join Caitlin and Vix in their life adventures. HOWEVER, beware of the ending. It took me by surprise and filled me with emotion which is OK, but not in an airplane -- sitting next to a stranger. I was embarrassed.

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Summary: Not a young adult anymore
Review: I read on the Booklist review that this novel might have been marketed to appeal to Blume's young adult fans from the 70's, now all grown up. As of one those grown-up fans, I agree that the book is a young-adult book masqerading as a book for adults. Blume seems caught in a time warp of teenage mentality. She is a master at telling us what teenagers think and feel, but cannot seem to make the leap to give us similar insights for adults. I will never forget the joy Judy Blume gave me as a young girl, but this book proves once again that you can never go back.