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    <body><![CDATA[I loved this book when I read it because it reminded me so much of the weird relationship I had with my best friend growing up. We spent numerous summers together at her parents' cottage having the requisite summer flings with out of town boys who we would never see again (until the next summer), an...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2517915">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[All the presumably well-intentioned messages and general nostalgic goodwill notwithstanding, the fact remains that Judy Blume is the Larry Clark of young adult fiction, and her trashy &quot;adult&quot; novels belie this.  Without the hassle of having to walk twelve-year-olds through puberty, Blume i...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1551884">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I read this book every summer, mostly because it does such a great job of capturing the essence of the season. (I actually prefer to read it when it's still a little cold outside so I can be transported to warmer weather, but for the past few years it's been so hard to find time to get it in!) Anywa...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2392827">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[What shall I say... this book is candid.  I am enjoying it thus far and I am 100 pages in.  It is a hard book to put down because you want to know what happened back then.  This book is a look back at the lives of two young women together.  At the very beginning Vix gets a call from Caitlin that Cai...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/15883958">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I like that Vix and Caitlin were born the same years as me, it was easy to relate to that. I didn't come from a rich family nor a struggling blue-collar family. But I could understand the feeling of trying so hard but not quite fitting in. <br/><br/>And looking at the 2 of them and their families,...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/36228845">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Read this on the plane from Denver to Seattle.  It was a little odd, in that I haven't ever read any of her stuff for grownups.  I was a HUGE fan of <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://bookcrossing.com/journal/2151745/?title=margaret&author=&category=&isbn=&bcid=&status=0&screenname=&limit=1/book_Are-You-There-God?-Its-Me,-Margaret-JUDY-BLUME">Are You There, God?  It's Me, Margaret</a> -- so much that I recently bought another copy :)  Anyway, this book was ok.  Not exactly a romance novel, but d...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/42291442">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I decided to read <em>Summer Sisters</em> by Judy Blume because I wanted my final outside reading assignment to be a light read. This novel definitely fit that criteria, and what was also appealing was that the plot covered many years. I enjoy reading life-spanning books because I like to see the change in c...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/56644354">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[My boyfriend's sister gave me this book to read when we visited her in Eugene, OR. I read the whole thing on the plane between Portland and Norfolk. So, it's a fast read! I also had a friend when I was a girl who was like a sister to me, and although we didn't spent as much time exploring our &quot;...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/6576627">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Starting with the things I liked, I appreciated the book for it's nostalgic factor and being a quick, light read. It was seasonally appropriate and took me down memory lane in more ways than one...reminiscing about how complicated teenage female relationships can be and how people who know you in yo...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/65619998">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[Summer Sisters]]>
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    <![CDATA[Judy Blume first won legions of fans with such young adult classics as <em>Are You There  God? It's Me, Margaret</em> and <em>Forever</em>, in which she tackles the cultural hot button of  teenage sexuality. In <em>Summer Sisters</em>, her third novel for adults, the author again explores  the ramifications of love--and lust--on two friends. Initially, the differences between Caitlin Somers  and Victoria Leonard (or &quot;Vix,&quot; as Caitlin christens her) draw them together: privileged  Caitlin is wild and outspoken, beautiful but emotionally fragile, while working-class Vix is shy,  reserved, and plain in comparison. After Caitlin selects Vix to accompany her to her father's home  in Martha's Vineyard for the summer, the two become inextricably connected as &quot;summer  sisters.&quot;  <p> On the Vineyard, Vix and Caitlin first find love, then sex--and lots of it. Yet Blume soon moves  beyond hot fun in the summer sun, tracing the romantic and familial travails of the two from  pre-adolescence to adulthood. Solid Vix evolves into Victoria, an equally solid, Harvard-educated,  Manhattan public-relations exec. Unpredictable Caitlin opts out of college and travels to Europe,  where she has a string of short-lived affairs with a series of intriguing (in every sense of the word)  foreigners. It is only after she returns to the Vineyard that Caitlin does the unthinkable, forever  changing both her friendship with Vix and their lives. Blume once again proves herself a master of  the female psyche, and <em>Summer Sisters</em> is likely to entertain both her postadolescent and  more mature readers. </p>]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[Judy Blume is a guilty pleasure of mine. I think I read Tiger Eyes about 10 times the summer before I started Junior High. <br/><br/>I read Summer Sisters one weekend when I was  under the influence of vicodin, so my rating may be skewed because of that, but I do remember this book being highly en...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1986400">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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