Summer Sisters
3 journalers for this copy...
I am sure I must have read this at one time. I know I read all of her children's books back when my daughters were devouring them.
Reserved for cyber-librarian, one of the winners in TracyShannon's Happy Birthday BC contest. I'll be packing it up and sending it on just as soon as I can find it.
The sisters left today on their trip to Illinois. May 6/06.
I received this yesterday from Pooker3 in Canada ... for winning the Bookcrossing birthday contest. Thanks so much!
c. 1998 -- 301 pages -- Hardcover -- 17 weeks on the USA Today top-10 Bestseller list:
#1 on 5/23/99 and 5/30
#2 on 5/16/99, 6/6, 6/27, 7/4 and 7/25
#3 on 6/13/99
#4 on 7/11/99, 7/18 and 8/1
#6 on 6/20/99
#7 on 5/9/99 and 8/8
#10 on 8/15/99, 8/22 and 8/29
Jacket Flaps: No writer captures the seasons of our lives better than Judy Blume. Now, from the NY Times bestselling author of Wifey and Smart Women, comes an extraordinary novel of reminiscence and awakening -- an unforgettable story of two women, two families, and the friendships that shape a lifetime.
When Victoria Leonard answers the phone in her Manhattan office, Caitlin's voice catches her by surprise. Vix hasn't talked to her oldest friend in months. Caitlin's news takes her breath away -- and Vix is transported back in time, back to the moment she and Caitlin Somers first met, back to the casual betrayals and whispered confessions of their long, complicated friendship, back to the magical island where two friends became summer sisters.
Caitlin dazzled Vix from the start, sweeping her into the heart of the unruly Somers family, into a world of privilege, adventure, and sexual daring. Vix's bond with her summer family forever reshapes her ties to her own, opening doors to opportunities she had never imagined -- until the summer she falls passionately in love. Then, in one shattering moment on a moonswept Vineyard beach, everything changes, exposing a dark under-current in her extraordinary friendship with Caitlin that will haunt them through the years.
As their story carries us from Santa Fe to Martha's Vineyard, from New York to Venice, we come to know the men and women who shape their lives. And as we follow the two women on the paths they each choose, we wait for the inevitable reckoning to be made in the fine spaces between friendship and betrayal, between love and freedom.
Summer Sisters is a riveting exploration of the choices that define our lives, of friendship and love, of the families we are born into and those we struggle to create. For every woman who has ever had a friend too dangerous to forgive and too essential to forget, Summer Sisters will glue you to every page, reading and remembering.
c. 1998 -- 301 pages -- Hardcover -- 17 weeks on the USA Today top-10 Bestseller list:
#1 on 5/23/99 and 5/30
#2 on 5/16/99, 6/6, 6/27, 7/4 and 7/25
#3 on 6/13/99
#4 on 7/11/99, 7/18 and 8/1
#6 on 6/20/99
#7 on 5/9/99 and 8/8
#10 on 8/15/99, 8/22 and 8/29
Jacket Flaps: No writer captures the seasons of our lives better than Judy Blume. Now, from the NY Times bestselling author of Wifey and Smart Women, comes an extraordinary novel of reminiscence and awakening -- an unforgettable story of two women, two families, and the friendships that shape a lifetime.
When Victoria Leonard answers the phone in her Manhattan office, Caitlin's voice catches her by surprise. Vix hasn't talked to her oldest friend in months. Caitlin's news takes her breath away -- and Vix is transported back in time, back to the moment she and Caitlin Somers first met, back to the casual betrayals and whispered confessions of their long, complicated friendship, back to the magical island where two friends became summer sisters.
Caitlin dazzled Vix from the start, sweeping her into the heart of the unruly Somers family, into a world of privilege, adventure, and sexual daring. Vix's bond with her summer family forever reshapes her ties to her own, opening doors to opportunities she had never imagined -- until the summer she falls passionately in love. Then, in one shattering moment on a moonswept Vineyard beach, everything changes, exposing a dark under-current in her extraordinary friendship with Caitlin that will haunt them through the years.
As their story carries us from Santa Fe to Martha's Vineyard, from New York to Venice, we come to know the men and women who shape their lives. And as we follow the two women on the paths they each choose, we wait for the inevitable reckoning to be made in the fine spaces between friendship and betrayal, between love and freedom.
Summer Sisters is a riveting exploration of the choices that define our lives, of friendship and love, of the families we are born into and those we struggle to create. For every woman who has ever had a friend too dangerous to forgive and too essential to forget, Summer Sisters will glue you to every page, reading and remembering.
I finished reading this on 7/11. It was an interesting read ... although quite graphic and blunt about two girls coming of age. I've heard Judy Blume's adult books on this way ... quite adult. ;-) I found it interesting that the girls switched characters in the end. Caitlin who comes across as the agressive, forward girl is actually running (hiding) from herself and others. Whereas, Vix who is shy, inferior and follows Caitlin in her worldly ways is really stronger than she knows and able to go forward and make a good life for herself. Do we really know people when we're growing up? Do we really know ourselves?
Journal Entry 6 by ReadingGal79 at RABCK in a RABCK, By Mail/Post/Courier -- Controlled Releases on Monday, July 23, 2007
Released 16 yrs ago (7/23/2007 UTC) at RABCK in a RABCK, By Mail/Post/Courier -- Controlled Releases
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I'm mailing this today to MandaJo in MN ... as a surprise RABCK with some help from Cliff's wishlists and www.rabck.com websites. Happy Reading!!!
I'm mailing this today to MandaJo in MN ... as a surprise RABCK with some help from Cliff's wishlists and www.rabck.com websites. Happy Reading!!!
Thanks so much for the RABCK!! Sorry this took so long to register... I'm playing catch up on about 2 years of missing books. I did read it in the meantime, and was very impressed with how Judy Blume grew up after all the books of hers I read when I was younger. I hope to find someone to pass this along to soon!
