by Ann Brashares
I didn’t like her style of writing but I liked her story. She uses a lot of parenthesis which I find very stumblesome and trippy. I prefer the comma. The story is quite endearing. The story is of four friends who’ve been close since childbirth having their first summer apart. All of the four friends are girls. Tibby is the eldest daughter of parents who used to have simple tastes. She spent the summer in town earning money towards a vehicle. Lena is going to visit her grandparents in Greece with her sister Effie. Carmen is going to spend the summer with her dad only to find that he has a new family and Bee goes off to soccer camp.
The author did a good job characterizing the girls as teenagers by showcasing their childish and mature traits. It is a bit of a fairy tale summer. There are very few who can recount such memorable summer in their lifetime.
4/5
Loved the movie! balled my eyes out in the theatre, don’t know about the book though. AAAND, I, alhamdulillah, had the most amazing and most memorable YEAR in 1999. thank you very much, and about 3/4 of the ‘memorable’ occurred from june to september. But I think I already told you perhaps. :):)
Didn’t see the movie. I heard good things about the book and I was afraid the movie would suck. Perhaps I should see the movie now that it has been established that it didn’t completely destroy the story.
Hmmmmm the movie is slightly different from the book then..cause you see her go to greece alone..and what else…i didnt know that tibby was wanting to work towards a car but yea the movie wasnt bad I must admit..although i first didnt wanna watch it lol!!!
too much nudity for my taste.
let me guess, not enough horror?