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anne978 's review for:
Summers of the Sisterhood: The Sisterhood of the Travelling Pants
by Ann Brashares
I was in the mood of going back to a childhood favourite, since losing yourself in a story is different when you're grown up. A regular novel for adults cannot grasp me in quite the same way as a moving or exciting childhood pageturner - the kind of reading that's so easy you may as well have been watching a film. However, a new YA novel would not do. I would get too critical about something new, so it had to be a book or series that I really loved as a kid.
That's how I landed on The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants. It's interesting to compare the opinions of teenage me and current me. For example, as a teenager, I never thought that it is strange that a bunch of fifteen-year-olds get to run around with minimal parental supervision, booking flights by themselves and basically doing whatever they want when they want with seemingly limitless financial resources.
But of course, that's the point. Their stories would have been excruciatingly boring if they were four poor teenage girls stuck in their hometown doing nothing the whole summer. (God knows I've had enough experience with that myself). So although I did notice this rather obvious fact this time around, I took it with a grain of salt and just enjoyed the moving, warm, and fuzzy story that is The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants.
That's how I landed on The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants. It's interesting to compare the opinions of teenage me and current me. For example, as a teenager, I never thought that it is strange that a bunch of fifteen-year-olds get to run around with minimal parental supervision, booking flights by themselves and basically doing whatever they want when they want with seemingly limitless financial resources.
But of course, that's the point. Their stories would have been excruciatingly boring if they were four poor teenage girls stuck in their hometown doing nothing the whole summer. (God knows I've had enough experience with that myself). So although I did notice this rather obvious fact this time around, I took it with a grain of salt and just enjoyed the moving, warm, and fuzzy story that is The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants.