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Summary: whOa!
Review: Summer Sisters, is not only inspirational, but also a book that every girl, women, teen, can relate to. I first read this book when I was actually in the 7th grade, and I feel instantly in love with it. I felt that this book really takes you onto a journey through your childhood AND the future that you are about to experience. Everyone of us, at one point in time, played the role of Victoria... idolizing a girl such as Caitlin Sommers. Beautiful, enchanting, spontaneous... the envy of every female. Judy Blume, does an amazing job letting each and every one of the readers live vicariously through Vix, Caitlin... any of the characters in the book. Since the 7th grade, I think I have read this book about five to six times, and to my surprise, every single time I read this book, not only do I refuse to set the book aside, but I learn something new about myself.. about life. This is a simple book about two girl's friendship, but yet it is so much more...
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Summary: Far from shallow: absolutely wonderful
Review: Alice Merchant, June 2001, no! Shallow? I'm disheartened to read such a review. I guess the book is just so special to me. I didn't read it until a few years ago when I got it out of the library on an impulse. It's remained in my head ever since. (I've bought copies for all of my friends as well) I'm no literary fool...i've read everything, I read a book a week, three books a week sometimes...I've read classics and horror and pure literature. I've read Pulitzer Prize winning novels, romance novels...and nothing comes close to how wonderful and charming "Summer Sisters" is. It's not a "PC" book, or a book about a breakthrough, or abuse or magic or a mid-life crisis. It's about thirteen summers, two amazing women and amazing friends and family who leap off the page. Read it...you might not adore it as much as I do, but you'll be glad you read it. Recommended to young women 15-25, 35-60!
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Summary: Blume in Adulthood
Review: As someone who enjoyed Judy Blume's books growing up, I also felt until recently that her writing would never appeal to me now. I picked up this book at the airport out of desperation, a flight delay followed by four hours in the sky awaiting me, with slim-pickings at the terminal bookstore. It really captured me - the references, music & styles of my teen & pre-teen years - and reminded me of who I was then & the things I've gone through in my life. A fun & quick diversion, perfect for the plane, beach and as an entertaining before-bed read.
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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: Judy Blume !?
Review: I didn't know July Blume wrote stories like this! Oh my, this story made me blush! Good read, interesting...lots of fun
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Summary: Easy read.
Review: I really enjoyed this book. It's an easy read and a great escape. I gave it 5 stars, however, I would not read it twice. Once is enough.
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Summary: Good, classic Judy Blume!
Review: I have read this book three times, and each time I find another minor imperfection, but overall I find it entertaining and a genuinely great book for any woman that has ever had a best friend. All of us that have know that many women are guilty of being jealous of their best friend and often wanting what their best friend has. Vix and Caitlin are both classic examples of the typical best friend, but the reader empathizes more with Vix. She lives a more realistic life style, and also it is hard to sympathize with Caitlin after she makes some bad choices that hurt Vix. All in all this book will make any woman long for a childhood summer vacation all over again. Very entertaining.
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Summary: A more intelligent Jackie Collins/Danielle Steele type book
Review: Like most women who grew up in the 70s, I was a huge fan of Judy Blume's children's books. This is the first time I've read one of her adult novels. I didn't think it was bad, and yet I excpected more from her. I liked the main characters of Vix and Caitlin. The book is really about female friendship, belonging, family, and love. I could relate to how Caitlin treated Vix - I felt like I knew these girls. Their envy of each other made perfect sense, and I did sympathize with both of them. They were people I could identify with. The situations they found themselves in, the fears, the concerns, the hopes, all rang true. The dialogue was realistic and the novel was fast paced. Blume started to explore family dynamics, but only on a surface level. And that is the key problem. There were too many characters, and I didn't like the shifting points of view at various points in each chapter. I know she did it to try to give the reader a better sense of the family dynamics at work; I don't think it was effective. I never quite understood Tawny, Abby, or Vix's need to replace Tawny with Abby. I felt let down by the event that is considered the big betrayal of the final summer -- there's a secret that Blume holds on to until the girls are adults that I think she should've revealed sooner. Yes, this book has alot of sex in it, and some of it is unnecessary. I didn't find it as offensive as some other readers, however. Overall, this was a decent book that was easy to read. It won't challenge you, and you likely won't want to read it twice, (hence the rating of 3 stars as opposed to 4) but it will keep you engrossed. I wouldn't reccommend it to anyone under 15 or so. I also don't think it's likely to appeal to many people over the age of 35ish.
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Summary: funny and fun
Review: It was such a fun novel, that I read it in 2 days
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Summary: Excellent book! I loved every word!
Review: This was a fantastic book! I never realized that Judy Blume wrote adult fiction, but once I saw this book I had to pick it up - memories of Superfudge and her other children's book bring back great memories!
Summer Sisters is a great story of friendship, betrayal and love. It is about jealously between girl friends and how they chose to deal with it. I loved both Vix and Caitlin and although I identified with each at times, I really felt close to both of them.
I really enjoyed the small blurbs at the end of some of the chapters that were written from the points of view of some of the other characters in the book - Abby, Lamb, Bru, Von, etc. It was a neat little glimpse into their lives from their own point of view and that added tremendously to the book!!!
All and all, this was a great book about relationships and what shapes us as people, friends, lovers and even husbands/wives! Don't miss it!
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