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3.75 AVERAGE
3.75 AVERAGE
As four friends spend their first summer apart from one another, they share a magical pair of jeans. Despite being of various shapes and sizes, each one of them fits into the pants perfectly. To keep in touch, they pass these pants to each other and the adventures they go through.
I loved this book. It was great to get four stories at once. It was a page turner. I read it in less than 24 hours. Recommended.
I loved this book. It was great to get four stories at once. It was a page turner. I read it in less than 24 hours. Recommended.
adventurous
inspiring
fast-paced
when you hear the words "modern classic," this book is what they're talking about.
if you overhear someone at a coffee shop having a pretentious conversation about Murakami, or whatever, and those words appear, ignore all other context and assume they are talking about the middle school-defining chef d'oeuvre from ann brashares.
this series is...everything to me.
the idea that someone can be hot just because they have really great blonde hair. the fact that what's her name starts with T (tabby? tibby?) got pregnant later in the series by the gamer boy whose teeth are earlier described as "mossy." america ferrera spying on her dad's new family. lena's greek fling. lena getting drawn / drawing naked.
A PAIR OF PANTS THAT FITS FOUR VERY DIFFERENT FRIENDS.
it rules. i don't have anything else to say. all of that lives in my memory after 11 years and if that doesn't constitute a modern classic, nothing does.
part of that project where i review books i read a long time ago and am either an asshole or want to reread them immediately
if you overhear someone at a coffee shop having a pretentious conversation about Murakami, or whatever, and those words appear, ignore all other context and assume they are talking about the middle school-defining chef d'oeuvre from ann brashares.
this series is...everything to me.
the idea that someone can be hot just because they have really great blonde hair. the fact that what's her name starts with T (tabby? tibby?) got pregnant later in the series by the gamer boy whose teeth are earlier described as "mossy." america ferrera spying on her dad's new family. lena's greek fling. lena getting drawn / drawing naked.
A PAIR OF PANTS THAT FITS FOUR VERY DIFFERENT FRIENDS.
it rules. i don't have anything else to say. all of that lives in my memory after 11 years and if that doesn't constitute a modern classic, nothing does.
part of that project where i review books i read a long time ago and am either an asshole or want to reread them immediately
I really enjoyed this book after being cautiously optimistic at first.
Silly & Cute (which is what I expected) and easy to read. The thing that cracked me up was the references to payphones/Discmans/Sega Dreamcast system - I wondered just how old the book was and laughed it's only 10 years old. My, how things have changed!!
This book has been sitting on my shelf for a young time and been on my to read list for while too. I did see the movie some time back before picking this up to read so I did find myself comparing the book and the movie. The book, as is the case when books get turn into a movie, is the better form but watching the movie before reading made it easier to picture characters and settings.
Four best friends are spending their first summer apart and they find magic pants that fit all of them. So they form a pact, a sisterhood of the traveling pants. The pants get sent around to all of them and events happen when they wear it. Death, divorce, love, family, relationship all appear as themes in this novel as the characters learn to grow as individual people.
I read this at the start of my summer vacation as I headed off for LA and it is a cute book. The premise of the pants and I found myself falling for the characters and anticipating their next moves. A perfect book for the start of summer vacation. Serious themes but light enough for it to be fun and enjoyable.
SOME SPOILERS, LOOK OUT UNLESS YOU DON'T CARE ABOUT RUINING A GOOD BOOK!
I read the whole Sisterhood series when I was about ten years old (still have no idea why) and this year I decided, since I owned the first and the fourth book, I should at least try again.
I went into it with a sense of care, I hadn't really liked it the first time around, and was wary to the wasting of my time.
However, I loved it, as much as I love the movie. Lena was my favourite, because Kostos is dreamy, obviously, and Greece sounds so beautiful and was described so well, I could imagine myself actually there.
Tibby is interesting, because I liked her family story (parents were hippies turned proper parents), but the whole freezing Mimi in the fridge thing freaked me out a little bit, however I did still like her whole 'left at home to work at a supermarket' thing, and Bailey is cute, but saddening.
Carmen annoyed me the most, because she was so rude to her stepfamily at first, but I was cheering internally when she threw that rock into the window. I liked the drama of the alcoholic previous husband of Lydia, and how that has affected Krista and Paul, and although Carmen was grumpy and snarky, I could see why she did that stuff, because they were infuriating at times.
Bridget was my favourite until the end of the book when she went a bit depressed because of her fling with Eric, and her mum (whose illness was so sad I nearly cried proper tears).
Overall, a cute story of close friendships, truthful, real, dynamic, and I liked it all. Can't wait to re-read all the other books, and I'd recommend the series for anyone who is a teenage girl with close friends, or has been a teenage girl with close friends like those in the Sisterhood of the Travelling Pants.
I read the whole Sisterhood series when I was about ten years old (still have no idea why) and this year I decided, since I owned the first and the fourth book, I should at least try again.
I went into it with a sense of care, I hadn't really liked it the first time around, and was wary to the wasting of my time.
However, I loved it, as much as I love the movie. Lena was my favourite, because Kostos is dreamy, obviously, and Greece sounds so beautiful and was described so well, I could imagine myself actually there.
Tibby is interesting, because I liked her family story (parents were hippies turned proper parents), but the whole freezing Mimi in the fridge thing freaked me out a little bit, however I did still like her whole 'left at home to work at a supermarket' thing, and Bailey is cute, but saddening.
Carmen annoyed me the most, because she was so rude to her stepfamily at first, but I was cheering internally when she threw that rock into the window. I liked the drama of the alcoholic previous husband of Lydia, and how that has affected Krista and Paul, and although Carmen was grumpy and snarky, I could see why she did that stuff, because they were infuriating at times.
Bridget was my favourite until the end of the book when she went a bit depressed because of her fling with Eric, and her mum (whose illness was so sad I nearly cried proper tears).
Overall, a cute story of close friendships, truthful, real, dynamic, and I liked it all. Can't wait to re-read all the other books, and I'd recommend the series for anyone who is a teenage girl with close friends, or has been a teenage girl with close friends like those in the Sisterhood of the Travelling Pants.
Oh to be 16 again!!!! What a throwback. This was like a breath of fresh air with a few unexpected gut punches. A bit heavier reading material than I remembered! The vibes I felt while reading this brought me right back to sneaking out of my house on warm summer nights to meet up with my besties at the beach, carrying our flip flops while walking down the middle of the road because we were the center of our own little world. Love love loved every minute of this. Do I finish the series?? TBD