October 17, 2011

Sisterhood Everlasting by Ann Brashares

From #1 New York Times bestselling author Ann Brashares comes the welcome return of the characters whose friendship became a touchstone for a generation. Now Tibby, Lena, Carmen, and Bridget have grown up, starting their lives on their own. And though the jeans they shared are long gone, the sisterhood is everlasting.

Despite having jobs and men that they love, each knows that something is missing: the closeness that once sustained them. Carmen is a successful actress in New York, engaged to be married, but misses her friends. Lena finds solace in her art, teaching in Rhode Island, but still thinks of Kostos and the road she didn’t take. Bridget lives with her longtime boyfriend, Eric, in San Francisco, and though a part of her wants to settle down, a bigger part can’t seem to shed her old restlessness.

Then Tibby reaches out to bridge the distance, sending the others plane tickets for a reunion that they all breathlessly await. And indeed, it will change their lives forever—but in ways that none of them could ever have expected.

As moving and life-changing as an encounter with long-lost best friends, Sisterhood Everlasting is a powerful story about growing up, losing your way, and finding the courage to create a new one.

October 14, 2011

Forever in Blue by Ann Brashares

LOVE, LOVE, LOVE

Love is in the air as the Sisterhood attempt to come back together after their first year of College.

Bridget and Eric
Bridget and Hector
Bridget and her floor
Bridget and Peter
Bridget and her bed
Lena and Leo
Tibby and Brian
Carmen and Scones

Yep... Love is everywhere you look, well, maybe...

October 11, 2011

Girls in Pants by Ann Brashares

As with the first two summers of the Sisterhood, Each girl faces a new trouble. But each time, it's erily familiar to one of the past.

Tibby is still refusing to admit her feelings for Brian
Carmen is still pushing away the people she loves
Lena is still trying to get of Kostos
And Bridget is failing hard for Eric. Again.

What brings them back together? The pants of course.

October 5, 2011

The Second Summer of the Sisterhood by Ann Brashares

As the Second Summer of the Sisterhood comes around, the Sisterhood face traumas of the past.

Tibby- The Death of Bailey
Carmen- Her Step-Sister's obsession to be just like her
Bridget- Her Father's attemps to cut her off from her Grandmother
Lena- The desperation that follows a heart-throbbing break-up

Again, the pants not only bring each girl to where she needs to go, but they bring them back from the precipace of falling apart forever.

October 2, 2011

The Sisterhood of the Travelling Pants by Ann Bashares

Tibby, Bridget, Lena, and Carmen are best friends. The closest knit group known to man. They are sisters in every way but blood. They are each other's family when their families don't feel right.

But this summer, they're spreading out.

Lena is going to beautiful Greece
Bridget is going to hot Mexico
Carmen is going to South Carolina
Tibby, is well, she's staying home

It's only after they find a pair of pants that fits all of them. Bridget; tall and muscular, Lena; short and small, Tibby; skinny and lanky, and Carmen with her Puerto Rican butt. That they find a way to keep themselves together.

But is it enough?

September 29, 2011

Something Borrowed by Emily Griffin

Rachel has always done the right thing. Always been the perfect best friend. Always sacrificed something for herself, for Darcy. Including Dex. Dex has been Rachel's friend since their freshman year of Law School. Now, Darcy and Dex are engaged to be married, just when Rachel and Dex realize their feelings for each other. Sad Face.

As the Maid of Honor, Rachel deals with the brunt of the Wedding problems, stresses, and freak out moments. Not that she wants the wedding to happen, since she's in love with the groom.

As the scandelous relationship grows more serious, and more people find out, the more obvious the consequences become.

When does a budding romance overshadow a lifelong friendship. Where does the grey end, and the obvious black come into play.

Should you stop, even though it's the most alive you've felt in, well, forever?

September 26, 2011

Love Story by Jennifer Echols

I was walking through my local book store, just looking at random titles, when I saw Love Story. I picked it, being the loyal Taylor Swift fan that I am. After reading the first line of the back cover, I was hooked.

Erin Blackwell, like me, is an aspiring author. Unlike me, she has money. Well, she had money. After refusing to go to buisness school and take over her grandmother's famous, horse breeding, multi-million dollar farm, the woman, who raised her, cut her off. On her graduation night. Talk about tough love.

So now Erin is living in New York, taking all the right classes for a writing major, eating nothing but ramen noodles and crackers, and working 40 hours a week. She has friends, she has a goal, she has a job. Everthing is going fine. That is until a certain Mr. Hunter Allen, Erin's 'Stable Boy' turns up in her Creative Writing class. Coincidence? Considering he's the boy who stole her inheritance, she thinks not.

"She's writing about him. He's writing about her. And everybody is reading between the lines." Reads the back cover. And that is only the peak of a mountain of trouble.

September 23, 2011

I Am Number Four by Pittacus Lore

John Smith

You would expect him to be an unknown. A terrorist. A spy.

But an Alien? Never.

But the thing is. He is. An alien, that is, not a terrorist, or spy. Although, some think he is.

John Smith is from Lorien. And he is being hunted. Hunted by the same race that made him home planet uninhabitable.

Number One was killed in Malaysia

Number Two was killed in England

Number Three was killed in Kenya

John Smith is Number Four.

He is in Paradise Ohio. He is next.

September 20, 2011

The Sword in the Stone by T.H. White

Wart, who we all know as Kin Arthur, is just a raggedy little kid who is constantly overshadowed by his older, more handsome, stronger, and more liked brother, Kay. But when wart meets Merlyn, that's all changed. Merlyn teaches him things no one else could teach him. He turns him in to animals, insects, and inanimate objects for gods sake!

But Wart is constantly making the same mistake. He underestimates people, animals, and their abilities. Which gets him into a lot of trouble.

The main problem that I had with this book, was the repetition. Although he learns something new every time he in transformed, he never uses it. Which is a BIG pet peev of mine...

If you want an easy, summertime novel, don't read this. But if you want an intelligent, thought-provoking book, this is for you.

September 17, 2011

Entwined by Heather Dixon

Azalea is trapped. Just when she should feel that everything is before her . . . beautiful gowns, dashing suitors, balls filled with dancing . . . it's taken away. All of it.

The Keeper understands. He's trapped, too, held for centuries within the walls of the palace. And so he extends an invitation.

Every night, Azalea and her eleven sisters may step through the enchanted passage in their room to dance in his silver forest.

But there is a cost.

The Keeper likes to keep things. As a prisioner, the keeper is too dangerous to let live, yet too powerful to kill. But no one knows who or what he is.

Azalea may not realize how tangled she is in his web of lies and deciet until it is too late.