When I’m in need for a read that doesn’t require mass amounts of brain power, but is still entertaining, I turn to The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants YA series by Ann Brashares.
I picked up the first book while browsing through Target last year (note to self - steer clear of the Target book section) and was even able to somehow sneak in some reading time on the second installment while traveling through China last summer (which reminds me - if I had time to read on a bus, in the middle of a foreign country, with a nine month old and a five year old who subsequently barfed all over me, well then there is no excuse for all those people who claim “I don’t have time to read” - just saying).
As with the first two books, Girls in Pants: The Third Summer of the Sisterhood follows four girls (Tibby, Carmen, Lena and Bee) now recently graduated from high school, while they navigate life and love their last summer before college. As in the first two books, the jeans (which magically fit all four girls even though they have very different body types) are shared through the summer and provide a clever plot device to link their stories together. All the characters have grown emotionally since the first and second book, in particular the one motherless girl of the bunch who is no longer a reckless teenager when it comes to matters of the heart. Even though I still believe the first book to be the strongest of the bunch, I did find it fun to return to the same characters.
I was pschyed the other day when I saw the fourth book, Forever in Blue: The Fourth Summer of the Sisterhood out in paperback (again, the evil which is Target). I think I’ll finish the series within the next month, since I would like to see the movie The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2 (click here to see the trailer), which is a mix of the second, third and fourth books and will be out this August. I watched the first movie after finishing the first book and was surprised, even though the screenwriter took great liberties with one of the story lines, how much I enjoyed it.
Each book, which can literally be read in a couple days, are as comforting as a well worn pair of jeans.
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