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Summary: AMAZING
Review: An absolutely AMAZING book. i enjoyed every minute of it, and read it in 2 days.
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Summary: summer sisters
Review: i loved this book, judy blume is so uncencerd i just couldnt stop reading. it's very taboo if you know what i mean.
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Summary: good
Review: i thought this was a fun interesting book its a good read if u wanna spend a few hrs hanging out by the pool on a chair reading
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Summary: I hated that it had to end!
Review: I picked up this book off of my mother's coffee table. I was assigned to read a book of my choice as an easy, end of the year AP English assignment and I was a little short on cash to go out and buy a book. I already had this one at home and I figured it didn't really matter how good or bad it was, just that I could get through it quick enough to get a decent grade to end the year. Once I started reading I couldn't put it down. I was instantly pulled into the story line and found myself falling in love with Caitlin and "Vix." I would HIGHLY recomend reading this book. It covers a whole era of these women and the different roads they travel in their journey to adulthood. There is truly something for everyone in Blume's novel - love, adventurous rebellion, heartbreak, betrayal in the most primative, girlish way, tears, laughter, and realization of the direction of an individual's life. In the end one may come to understand that some people are strong enough to live the life they create for themselves and that some are not; that everyone's actions are ultimately motivated by the desire for happiness.
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Summary: Girly Nonsense
Review: Full disclosure: I'm just beginning to read fiction again. I have been a hard-core nonfiction/periodical reader of late and the novel-reading thing is a bit wierd to get back into.This was VERY highly recommended to me. Because of the passionate exhortation I thought I might as well give it a shot. In a nutshell, this book is of a adolescent friendship that is both stronger and weaker than its two participants. Vix is the stoic from a splintering New Mexico family. Her mother, who struggled so hard to bring to term her four children, has basically abdicated her role because she simply can't handle the demands of four kids, a nearly-silent husband and being an aide to an old rich woman. Vix, the oldest, is dying to get away from an environment rank with disappointment and cynicism. What better way than as the 'summer sister' of the new girl in class, Caitlin? Caitlin is vibrant, beautiful, sharp and outspoken. She goes every summer to Marthas Vineyard to stay with her dad, Lamb. She needs a friend to go with her, and she picks the quiet Vix. Of course this book is filled with the type of summer adventures that can rock your world when you are a girl aged 12-18. That is the meat of the book, and I take my hat off to Judy Blume for replicating the type of situations that can be the highlight of being 13 years old. She shows the oddness of the friendship very well. We all know that each friendship we have is wholly different from all others we have, and in the this book we see that. They are summer sisters, no more or less. They are closer than imaginable during the summers at the Vineyard, and yet they move on with their lives when they are apart. You know the friendship is still there, but it's the type that only needs maintenance at scheduled intervals. My main problem with the book was the simplistic way that Caitlin's character developed over the years. She really didn't develop at all. Judy Blume just sort of drops a bomb on you near the end and your opinion of Caitlin totally changes. She becomes a different person to you because her motives have changed. I know the book is really from Vix's perspective, but it would have been nice to know more about Vix's summer sister. This book was easy to read, but I didn't feel the attraction to it that would have made it impossible to put down. When the movie shows up on Lifetime then maybe I'll watch it to see what has been done to it, but I don't think this book merits any more effort on my part than that.
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Summary: Great Summer Reader.
Review: I read this book in 24 hours. It was hard to put down. It is lite and easy to read. I love all Judy Blume books. I have also read Wifely and that was great also. I enjoy Judy Blumes books because they are great stories to get lost in becuase they are not heavy or serious.
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Summary: Only surface, no depth or insight
Review: My daughter gave me this book to read, tauting it as a good airplane book. My expectations weren't high but I'd read enough Judy Blume previously to know she has the capability of writing a good novel. This is not a good novel. The characters are so shallow that they're merely shadows, ideas of what characteristics a Barbie doll might have. There is 'rich girl with no conscience Barbie', 'smart, poor girl with no personality Barbie', 'Countess Barbie with a drinking problem and an upper class accent', ad nauseum. It was a true disasspointment and a waste of my time.
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Summary: Summer Sisters
Review: The book I read was Summer Sisters written by Judy Blume.
It was a good book. I liked the way the two girls formed such a good friendship and made it last even through the hard times. Some parts of the book I did not like, but most of it was good. During the parts in the book where they were at Marhtha's Vineyard, sounded like a very nice place that I would like to visit someday. I would recommend this book to anyone who enjoys reading about how frienndships can be valuable and survive through almost everything, good and bad.
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Summary: Judy, You're Better Than This!
Review: Reviewed June 13, 1998
The cover, two wooden beach chairs in the sand, tells it like it is: a book about two girl friends who spent summers together. It's a corny tale about friendship between girls vs. love between a boy and a girl. If you expect (as I did) more of the biting wit found in the author's 1988 novel Wifey, you'll soon learn that Summer Sisters is not nearly as clever or as good. But it is a book you might take to the beach, to read in your chair in the sand.
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Summary: Enjoyable read
Review: I was surprised by how much I liked this book, it was a lot better than I thought it would be. The characters are interesting, the story moves along at a quick pace, the author has a way of making you really care about the people in this book. I was a little disappointed by the ending, but I would still highly recommend this book.
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