I’ve been vacillating between rating this book poorly because it’s manipulative, or highly because its manipulation freaking worked on me. So we’re going with 3 stars — but I have thoughts! I’m also going to spoil the main thing that happens, but it happens towards the beginning and you can kind of see it coming so I think it’s not too spoiler-y. “You get older and you learn there is one sentence just four worlds long and if you can say it to yourself it […]
“She knew whose love she doubted. It wasn’t her parents’ and it wasn’t her friends: It was her own. ”
And here we are in the fourth summer! “We aren’t in high school. We aren’t really in our families and we aren’t in our houses. Those are the places we grew up and the times we spent together, but they aren’t us. If think they are, then we’re lost, because times end and places are lost. We aren’t any place or any time . . . We are everywhere.” Lina has a fling with a fellow artist from art school. I am all for Lena […]
“When you feel someone else’s pain and joy as powerfully as if it were your own, then you know you really loved them.”
Okay, book 3. This is the last summer before the girls go off to college, but of course they don’t spend it together because everybody has their own thing going on. “How sad it was, Carmen thought, that you acted awful when you were desperately sad and hurt and wanted to be loved. How tragic then, the way everyone avoided you and tiptoed around you when you really needed them. Carmen knew this vicious predicament as well as anyone in the world. How bitter it […]
“But then she hadn’t just learned to love this summer – she had also learned how to need.”
Yes I’m still reading these sappy ass books. “The word friends doesn’t seem to stretch big enough to describe how we feel about each other. We forget where one of us starts and the other one stops.” So the second summer of The Sisterhood allows the girls to split up into their own four little storylines again, with intermittent mingling as time progresses. Bridget goes to Alabama to hunt down her grandmother. Carmen gets jealous because her mom has started dating. Tibby’s making a movie that […]
“Wear them, they will make you brave.”
I have always loved The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants. It came out originally when I was probably (definitely) a little too old for it, but luckily my sister like the series too so I could borrow it (see also: the Georgia Nicolson books and The Lizzie Mcguire Movie). If you’re not familiar with the series, it’s about four girls who find themselves separated over summer for the first time in 16 years. Just before they leave for their summer vacations, they find a pair of […]
I really could use a pair of magic jeans myself sometimes
Four fifteen-year-old girls, life-long best friends, are about to spend their first summer apart. On the night before three of them go away, they discover a pair of second-hand jeans that Carmen, the original owner, was planning on getting rid of. They discover that despite their varying heights and body types, the jeans look awesome and super flattering on all four of them, and decide to use the jeans as a device to keep in contact throughout the summer. They make a pact that they […]