Summer Sisters

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Summary: Perfect vacation reading
Review: I loved Judy Blume books as a young girl, and I enjoyed this book just as much. It was perfect vacation reading and I could not put it down. What a pleasant change from all the serious (and sometimes depressing) Oprah's Book Club offerings!

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Summary: As much depth and relevance as an I-Can-Read Book!
Review: I gave this book to my mother for her birthday foolishly relying on the best seller list as a guarantee of a good read. While I experienced a fairly typical childhood, I failed to recognize Caitlin and Vix as realistic adolescents. After I read this childish (The Power?!!), melodramatic drivel, I shared my disappointment with my mom. She told me that she, too, thought the book was for teeny boppers. She hadn't shared her assessment with me before because she didn't want to hurt my feelings. I imagine this book will make its way through the seventh grade with the "appropriate" pages dog-eared and the "hot" sentences underlined just like Blume's novels Forever and Wifey did when I was 13 years old.

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Summary: Judy Blume can still reel me in
Review: I, like many others greww up reading Blume's works and was excited she had written an adult novel. I can remember reading her books through class in Jr High and High school because I was so engrossed I couldn't stop. This book was the same, I would forgo laundry and cleaning to read until it was finished. I hope she writes more books for adults in the future. Anyone who liked her books as a teen will LOVE this as an adult.

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Summary: Excellent, I didn't want this book to end.
Review: Wow, while reading this book I could really relate to my own summers growing up. I often thought about my summer sister. My only regret is that the book had to end.

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Summary: will keep your attention
Review: especially if you've ever had a close friend or two . . . i found myself caring about the characters and wanted to see how things would work out at the end.

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Summary: I've outgrown this type of writing
Review: I, too, loved reading Judy Blume books growing up, but as I read Summer Sisters, I realized that I have outgrown this adolescent writing. I found that the "adult" books seem to still be written for a younger audience than an adult. I did read the book in about 3 days, but it didn't leave me wanting to continue a relationship with either of the main characters or wonder what she would do in real life situations. Yes, I did have a friend like Caitlin, but I outgrew her as well.

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Summary: What a waste of precious time!!
Review: I was totally disappointed with this book. My only hope was that the next page might be better, but it never came to pass. The reading level of Summer Sisters seems geared to young teens but yet the subject matter is trying to reach an older group. I am really surprised that so many people seemed to enjoy this mundane offering from Judy Blume.

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Summary: Now come on!
Review: Any woman who can't relate to the relationship of these two girls is hiding something. Everyone had a friend like Vix and you didn't tell your mother about her either did you?

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Summary: Was she at summer camp with me and I didn't know?
Review: Wow! I never thought other girls had friendships like the one I have with my 'summer sister'. We met when we were 6 years old campers at sleep-away camp and have since experienced every aspect of growing up together! We played the games Vix and Caitlin played, from the power (which had our own name for) to hours of jacks tournaments and frisbee by the lake. We shared our first kisses, shaving our legs for the first time together, and called each other when our heart was broken the first time in college. We have both grown up, and are working so we obviously have no time for camp anymore but we have kept our friendship as real and true over the past 18 years as best as we can, being in different states. Like the story, my friend has had her share of a lot of hard times and adversity, but she has come through and I have been there every step of the way! I am proud and honored to be one of the people that is taking part in her walking down the aisle next summer! Real LOVE, FRIENDSHIP, TRUST, and DEVOTION DO exist- I can vouch for that! Thank you Judy Blume for telling my story to others, I never could have put it into words like that!!!

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Summary: Engrossing reading - not for pre and young teens.
Review: I loved how Judy Bloom developed her characters. The approach really gave you insite into the "lives" and "thought patterns" of the characters. It was a different and re-freshing style. My 14 year old is anxious to read it, but I am discouraging her because I don't think she is ready for the level of detail of into the intimate relationships (not just the sex, but the whole concept of a growing, developing young adult romance)