I finished The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants by Ann Brashares. I love the whole series. I read each one when I was (almost) the same age as the characters. I think Ann Brashares does a great job of capturing what it is to be a teenage girl. I'm always amazed when adults get it right. I've already forgotten what it was to be a teenager (so much that I don't think I could convincingly write about being a teenager), but rereading The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants brought me right back to when I was 15. This is partly because of nostalgia but mostly because of Brashares's ability to convey both the joys and pains of being a teenager.
I'm now torn between what I should read next. As I was reading Sisterhood, I had the overwhelming desire to read the second novel and to read Stargirl by Jerry Spinelli (which also has a sequel). I think I'm going to try and squeeze in Stargirl tonight and possibly start another novel. We'll see how that goes.
MINI UPDATE
I think I have to give up the idea that I will finish reading The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants books. I got no reading done this morning. We took down our Christmas tree instead. And now I'm off to a basketball game (Stanford vs UConn... it's going to be big). Since that has basically eaten up my entire day, I'm going to try and finish Love, Stargirl by Jerry Spinelli and The Last Summer (of You and Me) by Ann Brashares before the new year. Two books seems manageable. Three might have been possible, but I also want to hang out with my family/do things other than read in the last two days of 2010.
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