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The Last Summer (of You and Me) by Ann Brashares #1 Because it's a beautiful story
I love this book and was interested to know if others did.
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I read this book a while back and loved it. It's really different from her Sisterhood of the traveling pants books. I loved the storyline.
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I read this a few months ago and loved it too. I had heard mixed reviews but I knew it'd be more adult than her Traveling Pants series. I think mainly because I was around the same age as the characters but I related to so much of it and just absolutely adored it. It's one of my favorite books now. It had so many good lines and such a good story line.
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I have this book a while ago. It's been so long. It's definitely a lot different than the Sisterhood of the travelling pants.
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The first chapter I found to be slow, and I actually thought about not even continuing with it. But I'm so glad I did. Since then, I've re-read it twice. All of the relationships are interesting and relatable.
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Oh it really is a beautiful book. I think my favorite part is her explaining why she had set it up (to where she's waiting on Paul) because she was always waiting. I don't know it was just really lovely.
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Ain't there just something so poetic about waiting?!
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I agree totally, the waiting was so beautiful and romantic.
I just read this in December but I'd love to re-read it soon lol.__________________
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It is sort of torturous to read in the winter... when you're reading the book, you're so into that feeling of summer. Coming out of it is rather depressing!
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I know, and it was such an awful wintry day the days I read it (snow and brutal winds). I've been ready for spring and warmer weather since I read it!
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Winter can leave!
 Good question. I like how its more about relationships than a specific story. I found it easy to relate to, particularly to Riley's character. You? __________________
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I liked the relationships aspect of it too, everyone has at least a bit of complication with another character it seemed like. I related a lot to characters too, I think mainly because of our ages. I really related to Alice though, we had a lot in common personality wise.
ETA: I just read that the rights to make this into a movie have been bought by Warner Brothers and Ann Brashares is going to be one of the executive producers. That gives me hope that it will be great.  __________________
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Its nice when you can actually relate to a character.
Hopefully they don't butcher it! Now I'm all wondering who will play who. __________________
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I hope they don't mess things up either.
They did fairly good with the two Traveling Pants books though. I'll definitely have to re-read now so I can pick out some ideas for who should play everyone. __________________
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Hmm did they say when they were going to start production? My biggest fear is that they make it a triangle when it clearly was very far from that.
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