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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.
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Summary: The Best book i have ever read-absolutly loved it!
Review: Summer Sisters was the most amazing book i ever read. I am a very slow reader and i read it on a trip and finished it with in 5 hours. Blume makes the charcters so real you think you are actully living on the island. The book made me laugh, cry, and defintally always wanting to know what is going to happen next. Caitlin and Vix are best friends. Caitlin invits Vix to spend a summer with her in Marthas Vinard with there family. There caitlin is opened up to the whole world of caitlin. The share everything togther from sexuality to secerets. Their bond is something that you think can not be broken by anything until caitlin does something to hurt vix, something that she will never forget. This starts the beginng of the end. Through all the struggles of friendship both of their love for eachother never leaves and it will always last forever. This book has many life learing lessons that i will never forget. This is defintally the best book ever written. I read it twice in the last 6 months. Defintally read it or you are missing a lot!
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Summary: My ALL-TIME favortie book!!!!!
Review: I read this book over the summer. My sister begged and begged me to read it! I personally hate reading (being that i'm only 16)! I finally said ok and to hand the book over just so she'd get off my back! Well it turns out that i could not put the thing down!! I finished it in to days flat. It really touched me and even made me cry at the end!! I think Judy Blume did a great job and I recommend this book to anyone!! I got all my friends to read it and that was all we talked about for a week! Hey talking about it makes me wanna go read it again!
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Summary: Wasted Time Reading About Wasted Lives
Review: I hate when I read a book that left me with nothing and I ask, "Why did I bother reading this?" This book is about two girls who escape their real lives. One escapes a so-so family life for an "adopted" family and one escapes her more stable family to waste herself in hot pursuit of excitement and men. No one seems to deal with what they have been dealt with in life, but look for substitutes. It is written from an immature teen perspective and no one seems to actually grow up even though they age in years. The sex began with the two young girls doing it with each other and then basically doing it with anyone else as they grew older. There were also too many characters to keep up with and I grew tired of trying to remember why someone was important to the story. I am disgusted that I let these characters occupy a part of my life.
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