{"id":12418,"date":"2011-07-13T06:00:28","date_gmt":"2011-07-13T12:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs2.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/?p=12418"},"modified":"2011-07-11T11:49:39","modified_gmt":"2011-07-11T17:49:39","slug":"sisterhood-everlasting-by-ann-brashares","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/sisterhood-everlasting-by-ann-brashares\/","title":{"rendered":"Sisterhood Everlasting by Ann Brashares"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>I was a teenager myself when Ann Brashares released her first Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants<\/a><\/strong><\/em> book.\u00a0 If you’ve never read them before, they’re a pretty fun set of novels geared towards teens.\u00a0 The series centers around four girls who\u00a0have been\u00a0friends since bith.\u00a0 When they’re in high school, they go\u00a0out shopping one day\u00a0and discover\u00a0a pair of seemingly magical pants that fit\u00a0all four\u00a0of them, despite their\u00a0very different body types.\u00a0 The girls have to spend the summer apart, so they ship the pants to each other as a way to keep in touch.\u00a0 The\u00a0first four books\u00a0find the girls falling in love, getting into college, struggling with their families, and most of all sticking together through thick and thin.\u00a0 I devoured all four books and found myself pretty attached to Lena, Bridget, Carmen, and Tibby by the end of the fourth book, not really wanting to part with them just yet.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>So imagine my\u00a0delight when, ten years after that first book, I find out that Ann Brashares has written a fifth book about the girls titled Sisterhood Everlasting<\/a><\/strong><\/em>.\u00a0 This time, they are in their late 20s and are experiencing life as adults.\u00a0 Carmen is an actress living in New York City, Lena is teaching art classes\u00a0at RISD, Tibby is in Australia with her longtime love Brian, and Bridget is constantly changing jobs and apartments in San Francisco.\u00a0 Though Carmen works hard to keep everyone together, the girls don’t see much of each other anymore.\u00a0 That is, until Tibby suddenly sends them all plane tickets for a trip to Greece, giving the girls a chance to finally come together\u00a0once again.<\/p>\n

Beyond that, I can’t say too much about the book because something\u00a0shocking happens, and I don’t want to spoil interested readers.\u00a0 All I will say is that this book has a really different tone from the other books (especially since it’s now geared more towards adults rather\u00a0than teens), and if you’re a longtime fan of the series, it might not be a bad idea to read this with a box of tissues nearby.\u00a0 It’s really a story about how even the closest of friends can drift apart, how much we change over the years, how little we really<\/em> change, and how we deal with tragedy.\u00a0 As someone who has read the previous books in the series, it was interesting to see where they all ended up and continue on with their journeys.\u00a0 Lena and Bridget have always been my favorite characters, and their stories in this book are especially compelling.\u00a0 If you’ve never read any of the other books, Brashares does a pretty good job at giving you the background information you need, but I’d still recommend giving the earlier books a try.\u00a0 They were even made into a couple of\u00a0movies, with the first book being made into the\u00a0movie\u00a0Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants<\/a><\/strong><\/em> and the second, third, and fourth books being combined into the movie Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2<\/a><\/strong><\/em>.\u00a0 Overall, I’m glad I got to revisit these old friends one more time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I was a teenager myself when Ann Brashares released her first Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants book.\u00a0 If you’ve never read them before, they’re a pretty fun set of novels geared towards teens.\u00a0 The series centers around four girls who\u00a0have been\u00a0friends since bith.\u00a0 When they’re in high school, they go\u00a0out[Read more]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,8],"tags":[681,679],"class_list":["post-12418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-staff-picks","tag-friends","tag-womens-friendships"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pd0CXx-3ei","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12418","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12418"}],"version-history":[{"count":42,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12418\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12465,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12418\/revisions\/12465"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}