It was a very good book, and i loved how that caitlin and victoria had different things about them that made them special.The book is mainly about 2 friends who find love and deception during there summers at a tropical place. ( )

I’d been meaning for awhile to read one of Judy Blume’s adult books, so a little bit ago I picked this one up at Costco. I finally got to reading it this weekend, and I have no idea why I waited so long! It was a great book – I laughed, I cried, I felt like I grew up with these girls.

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This is one of my favorite summer beach reads. I first read it as a older teen, and now at 25 after many re-reads i still love it.
Caitlin and Victoria spend every summer with Caitlins father on Martha's Vineyard. Each have their differences, Caitin is wild & outgoing and Victoria is more reserved. The novel follows them from adolescense into adulthood. They take spereate paths in life but still remain Summer Sisters. ( )

I am enjoying this book right now, let ya know how it ends.

Perfect summertime entertainment. Characters were likeable and honest. I even found myself routing for a happy ending. Fun to rediscover Judy Blume after 20 years. She still can write a very enjoyable book. ( )

I forgot I had read this until I saw it being promoted at a nearby local bookstore. I read a lot of Judy Blume books as an 11 year old and was really pleased that she had written a book for adults.

I really enjoyed this book, it must have been a good six or seven years since I read it but I remember that I really liked it and found it difficult to put down. ( )

This is my SSR book for Q 4. I have read 317 pages. The book is basically what it sounds like. It's a story of two girls of the same age, but being completely two different, opposite people. One of the girls,Caitlin,is more of an extrovert and is known as the popular one, while the other,Victoria, is completely shy, timid and looked upon as the poor loser. The two girls eventually become friends and Caitlin and her family invite Victoria (or Vix) to stay the summer with them at their summer beach house. After many arguments with her mother, Victoria is able to go and the two girls spend an amazing summer together there. From that summer on, VIctoria tags along with Caitlin and her family every summer at the beach house; thus where the name Summer Sisters came. The two share some of their most remarkable memories together,from boys to college, and they become inseperable. I really enjoyed the book because I felt I could relate in a lot of the situations that the girls were put in and because I felt it was really easy to understand rather than complicated. ( )

This is one of my favorite books. I love Vix and her voice but I also enjoy the snippets from the other characters, that fill out the story. This is a book I pick up periodically and never get tired of. ( )

First read this book when I was 13, and my best friend and I fell in love with it. We used to read it outloud to eachother over and over. It is a crazy teenage summer, everyone has one. Definately one of my most favorite Judy Bloom books. ( )

Written well.
I liked it. One of those total must-reads.
Slightly disturbed by their games as "Vixen and Cassandra", but it was good otherwise. ( )

this was a great easy read.

A fun summer read for women who were fans of the Judy Blume books when they were kids. ( )

I've loved Judy Blume's books since I was younger. This is my first adult fiction that I've read of hers, and I gotta say that she's just as amazing as ever. Her writing is just as captivating as ever. Her stories from the very beginning lure you in and you just want to get through the story. Her narration is genuine and personal. I also love how from time to time, she'll write in someone else's perspective to give a light on the situation.

It's a wonderful story about a poor girl meeting a rich girl. The adventures the two have seem real.. that having money or not having it, doesn't bring happiness. Happiness is something based on the person and what they make of their own life. The two girls, the summer sisters, Vix and Caitlin, are girls that you would learn to love and wish that you had a close friendship with someone yourself. The anecdotes of their summers together and apart are endearing and bittersweet. It's a perfect story about friendship, betrayals, first loves, lust, family, and everything in between. If you loved Judy Blume's writing as a child, you would love her writing in Summer Sisters. ( )

Helen

A quick read. Follows the same line as other summer friend books. A few situations are unnecessarily sexual. It's a good book, but I prefer SUPERFUDGE. ( )

I read this because it was highly recommended. Sorry, but the lesbian affair was a huge turnoff. Oops, this is actually no longer in my library. I didn't want anyone else to read it, so I threw it out. ( )

I was surprized by how much I liked this book. I had heard it wasn't great, but I had always enjoyed her YA books as a child so I decided what was there to loose. The book takes alot of rare twists and is definately for a mature audience but is overall a great read. ( )

One of the few best novels I've read in my life. It captivated me, and I could connect with the characters so completely. A definite must-read. ( )

The author of Superfudge and Blubber does a lesbian love scene?!?!? That alone should make anyone pick this one up. After the initial shock is over, we are left with a typical coming of age story. Nothing special. ( )

One of those summers where you muture so quickly you're a completely different person at the end of it. ( )

Caitlin (rich and spoiled) and Victoria (from a poor family) spend every summer with Caitlin's father (and later stepmother) on Martha's Vineyard. The book follows them from preadolescents to adulthood, with tons of drama along the way. The writing seemed very choppy at times, but the story was very good. Blume is one of my favorite children's authors. ( )

Wow. Best airplane book ever!

I generally don't read books whose descriptions are as lackluster as the blurb on the back, however this book came highly recommended to me by a friend, so I decided to give it a go. Blume sucked me into these girl's lives and I could hardly put it down.

One comment - although this book is often shelved in teen areas in libraries and bookstores, I would reserve it for older and more mature teens. It does have quite a bit of sex (mostly pre-marital) and some language which might be shocking to some more conservative parents. ( )

SUMMER SISTERS by Judy Blume
The story of a rather one-sided friendship is told in Judy Blume's SUMMER SISTERS. Victoria (Vix) meets Caitlin as young schoolmates, and for some reason although the two of them are worlds apart, Caitlin chooses Vix as her guest to summer with her family on Martha's Vineyard. Vix has always been the quiet one, and Caitlin is the wild and crazy one. And despite their differences, Vix seems to be attracted to Caitlin's life, including her family and Caitlin's' rather eccentric ways.

SUMMER SISTERS was a great summer read. The plot kept my interest throughout the book, and the characters felt real and I cared about what happened to them. Judy Blume did a good job with the story of two friends and their ever-changing relationship from childhood to adulthood. It was also a good character study about two girls from different backgrounds, and the events and people that can shape a child into the adult she is today.
http://www.amazon.com/Summer-Sisters-...

About 50 pages into this novel, I had two thoughts: "This is Judy Blume?" and "This is JUDY BLUME!"

I was a little taken aback by the book's raunchiness, but overall, I am glad I stuck with it. I like how Blume focused most of her story on Vix while weaving in perspectives from other characters (my favorite being Sharkey, whose chapters were short but poignant). Blume is a classic storyteller, and if you liked her kid literature, then give this story a try. ( )

Admittedly, I was afraid to even pick up this book. Like most young American girls, I grew up reading Judy Blume. I enjoyed introducing her to my niece too, when the time came. But reading her adult fiction? I didn’t know if I dared risk it. Not to be a glass-is-half-empty sort, but I was afraid of being disappointed. Afraid that my childhood love for Ms. Blume’s words, her stories, her jokes, would be easily and quickly dashed by a less than stellar endeavor at a book for the big girls (or boys). And without the good authority of my dear, bibliophilic friends, I never would have.

It was a little tricky to get right into the story. The circular narrative was a little choppy, but a clever take on third-person omniscience that I eventually embraced and now can’t imagine the book without it. I found myself surprised to come back around to the beginning in just past the middle, but it only served to heighten the story, the meaning, and my reaction to it all.

The novel spans more than a decade of summers between Caitlyn and Victoria (Vix) in Martha’s Vineyard as they explore the Power and giggle over Packages, discovering boys, love, sex--just not in that order. The story is peppered with laughs, adolescent and adult awkwardness; in an exploration of the dichotomy of rich and poor, the rights of the have and have-nots; the bonds of the family you’re given and the comfort of the family you find; first loves and first lovers; first loss; and, of course, what it means to be a Summer Sister.

The ending was somewhat tidy, like the closing of a Family Channel movie, where we get to see what happened to all the people we’ve met in the story, but, I fear, without that, the very end wouldn’t have the same vital impact.

In the end, I cried. I’m not ashamed. They were huge, tear-filled sobs. In fact, as I write this, I feel my throat tightening and my eyes fill again in the memory of it. Which is not to say that the end was actually sad. Even now, I can’t tell you for sure exactly what or who I am crying for. I suspect it’s for myself and what I found in myself while reading this book. I suspect it’s for the years of my life that I feel went un-treasured and undocumented, even in my own mind. And I suspect it’s because I never had a Summer Sister . . . and that maybe I am better for it. ( )