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Title: The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants
Author: Ann Brashares
Genre: YA
Rating: 9/10
# pages: 310
Date read: November, 2006
Summary: They were just a soft, ordinary pair of thrift-shop jeans until the four girls took turns trying them on--four girls, that is, who are close friends, about to be parted for the summer, with very different sizes and builds, not to mention backgrounds and personalities. Yet the pants settle on each girl's hips perfectly, making her look sexy and long-legged and feel confident as a teenager can feel. "These are magical Pants!" they realize, and so they make a pact to share them equally, to mail them back and forth over the summer from wherever they are. Beautiful, distant Lena is going to Greece to be with her grandparents; strong, athletic Bridget is off to soccer camp in Baja, California; hot-tempered Carmen plans to have her divorced father all to herself in South Carolina; and Tibby the rebel will be left at home to slave for minimum wage at Wallman's.
Review: I've recently seen the movie based on this book and LOVED it, so when I found that the library had all three books, I naturally had to read them, and see if they were as well worth my time as the movie was. Fortunately they were :-) For the first one I'm not sure that I don't think the movie was marginally better, but that may just have been because so little time went between me seeing it and me reading it. When that's the case, I tend to like whatever I encountered first, best.
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Author: Ann Brashares
Genre: YA
Rating: 9/10
# pages: 310
Date read: November, 2006
Summary: They were just a soft, ordinary pair of thrift-shop jeans until the four girls took turns trying them on--four girls, that is, who are close friends, about to be parted for the summer, with very different sizes and builds, not to mention backgrounds and personalities. Yet the pants settle on each girl's hips perfectly, making her look sexy and long-legged and feel confident as a teenager can feel. "These are magical Pants!" they realize, and so they make a pact to share them equally, to mail them back and forth over the summer from wherever they are. Beautiful, distant Lena is going to Greece to be with her grandparents; strong, athletic Bridget is off to soccer camp in Baja, California; hot-tempered Carmen plans to have her divorced father all to herself in South Carolina; and Tibby the rebel will be left at home to slave for minimum wage at Wallman's.
Review: I've recently seen the movie based on this book and LOVED it, so when I found that the library had all three books, I naturally had to read them, and see if they were as well worth my time as the movie was. Fortunately they were :-) For the first one I'm not sure that I don't think the movie was marginally better, but that may just have been because so little time went between me seeing it and me reading it. When that's the case, I tend to like whatever I encountered first, best.
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