Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants Review
BY ABBY SYKES
"Based on a true story." If you've heard it once, you've heard it a zillion times, but how many of those zillion times is that true story about a bunch of girls sharing a pair of jeans?
Yeah, I didn't think so. The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants (2001) is a book about four best friends who are separated for the summer, and worried about being apart, they form an exclusive club based upon a favorite pair of pants. Every club has rules, and here are a few that the Sisterhood agrees upon: each girl must wear the pants, write a special memory from when they wear the pants, and then pass them along. The point? If they can't be there for each other physically, the pants will be there instead, helping them stay in touch as they seek various adventures in different settings.
Ann Brashares's first piece of fiction is a hit right out of the gate--The Sisterhood put her on the map as a writer. Her novel offers for 21st-century teens what Holden Caulfield did in J.D. Salinger's The Catcher in The Rye back in the 1950s and still today; the piece of fiction gives them a voice.
A New York Times bestseller, The Sisterhood is so wildly successful that readers want not one, not two, but three more novels (four, if you count the very last novel that takes place ten years later). If you still want more after you've read the entire series, 3 Willows (2009) is a Sisterhood spin-off. Readers just cannot indulge in enough of this literature.
Nobody’s perfect, but society tells the world to be, and to continue this confessional, sometimes people grow pretty sick of it. Wouldn't it be nice to look at a magazine, watch a movie, or read a book without feeling pressure to live up to unrealistic expectations?
Such is what's so great about The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants since the characters seem like real people with imperfections and all. Talking about big butts, flaring tempers, moodiness, and more, the female characters make some really stupid mistakes, yet it is pretty refreshing to read about such human characters. Additionally,
no matter how difficult life becomes for the girls, the pants are always there to remind them that there are people in the world who love them just the way they are. Cheesy? Yes, but that’s okay. This book implies how human the world is and how everyone is susceptible to some ugly history, but this very reason is why the young ladies are all the more lovable.
BY ABBY SYKES
"Based on a true story." If you've heard it once, you've heard it a zillion times, but how many of those zillion times is that true story about a bunch of girls sharing a pair of jeans?
Yeah, I didn't think so. The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants (2001) is a book about four best friends who are separated for the summer, and worried about being apart, they form an exclusive club based upon a favorite pair of pants. Every club has rules, and here are a few that the Sisterhood agrees upon: each girl must wear the pants, write a special memory from when they wear the pants, and then pass them along. The point? If they can't be there for each other physically, the pants will be there instead, helping them stay in touch as they seek various adventures in different settings.
Ann Brashares's first piece of fiction is a hit right out of the gate--The Sisterhood put her on the map as a writer. Her novel offers for 21st-century teens what Holden Caulfield did in J.D. Salinger's The Catcher in The Rye back in the 1950s and still today; the piece of fiction gives them a voice.
A New York Times bestseller, The Sisterhood is so wildly successful that readers want not one, not two, but three more novels (four, if you count the very last novel that takes place ten years later). If you still want more after you've read the entire series, 3 Willows (2009) is a Sisterhood spin-off. Readers just cannot indulge in enough of this literature.
Nobody’s perfect, but society tells the world to be, and to continue this confessional, sometimes people grow pretty sick of it. Wouldn't it be nice to look at a magazine, watch a movie, or read a book without feeling pressure to live up to unrealistic expectations?
Such is what's so great about The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants since the characters seem like real people with imperfections and all. Talking about big butts, flaring tempers, moodiness, and more, the female characters make some really stupid mistakes, yet it is pretty refreshing to read about such human characters. Additionally,
no matter how difficult life becomes for the girls, the pants are always there to remind them that there are people in the world who love them just the way they are. Cheesy? Yes, but that’s okay. This book implies how human the world is and how everyone is susceptible to some ugly history, but this very reason is why the young ladies are all the more lovable.