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smarieg's review against another edition
emotional
inspiring
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.25
skyfall's review against another edition
adventurous
emotional
lighthearted
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0
brendalovesbooks's review against another edition
3.0
I have mixed feelings about this one. On the one hand, there was just way too much navel gazing going on here. Has it always been this way, and I've just finally had too much after four books? But then, I still want to follow along with their lives and find out what happens. So I guess I wasn't too annoyed with it all.
kleware22's review against another edition
adventurous
funny
lighthearted
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
5.0
adia_vannfrolo's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Loveable characters? Yes
3.5
natwc's review against another edition
5.0
When I first read this, I was still in high school so I didn't relate to it as much but I still cried at the end. Reading it again while I'm in college, I can really relate to how the girls felt in some the situations they had gotten into and how much they had to struggle to get out of it. I wasn't as sad when I finished reading it this time since I found out that there is 5th book that is set 10 years from the end of this book. I'm so excited to read it!
marieintheraw's review against another edition
3.0
November 2015: I feel like the series has gotten formulaic by the end but I am interested in how the later addition fits in.
July 2016: I forgot that the only thing I truly loved when I first read this was the ending to this book because I felt like it was a great end to the series, but it's no longer the ending and now I'm not sure how I feel about this book.
July 2016: I forgot that the only thing I truly loved when I first read this was the ending to this book because I felt like it was a great end to the series, but it's no longer the ending and now I'm not sure how I feel about this book.
blloyd13's review against another edition
adventurous
emotional
lighthearted
reflective
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.5
colleengeedrumm's review
5.0
Loved this series! One more to go I think...
The only true paradise is paradise lost. - Marcel Proust
One's real life is so often the life that one does not lead. - Oscar Wilde
...and down they forgot as up they grew - e.e. cummings
Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song.
A medley of extemporanea:
And love is a thing that can never go wrong:
And I am Marie of Roumania.
-Dorothy Parker
Pain is inevitable: suffering is optional. - Greta Randolph
Make friends with your sweat this summer. She had a kind of boot-camp mentality Bridget decided. She was excited about privation.
Well, Bridget could get excited about privation too.
Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not. - Epicurus
In the depth of winter. I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer. - Albert Camus
Most people when they sensed a crisis got despotically curious, needing to stake out the far boundary of trouble.
Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterward. -Vernon Law
A wife like you had in a real family. Kids like you had in a real family. Kids who jumped around and needed things.
An opera in Italian was playing over the speaker to the left of Effie's head.
You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad. - Aldous Huxley
Illusions are art, for the feeling person, and it is by art that you live, if you do. - Elizabeth Bowen
Love was an idea. Nothing more or less.
If you lost the idea, if you somehow forgot about it, the person you loved became a stranger. Love lives in the memory. It can be forgotten.
But she knew the darkest parts of growing up had become linked to him that night. Those dark parts had attached to him & somehow overwhelmed the fragile idea of love.
Where there is nothing, there is the possibility of everything. When you live nowhere, you live everywhere.
You have to be like a turtle; you have to figure out how to bring your home along with you.
Carmen felt the familiar reactions, outmoded and dislodged though they were. She felt the old pull of gratitude. She felt needy & uncertain. She still clung to the notion of a friend, even a crappy one.
Life's a voyage that's homeward bound. - Herman Melville
crazy is what crazy do - The Black Eyed Peas
Poor empty pants
With nobody inside them. - Dr. Seuss
At first cock-crow the ghosts must go
Back to their quiet graves below. - Theodosia Garrison
Ruins stood for what was lost, and yet they were beautiful - peaceful, historic, intellectual. Not tragic or regrettable. Why not celebrate what you had had rather than spend your time mourning its passing? There could be joy in things that ended.
How powerful it was to give up your desires. It was like bargaining for a rug. Your only leverage was being able to walk away.
So often the world was made of jumps & starts, but tonight it was round & continuous.
She looked out the window and saw the proud full moon hanging over the Caldera, seeming to enjoy its own perfect reflection below.
It seemed to Carmen they were putting off having to touch their feet to the earth again. The earth turned and time passed and then they would have to think about what it meant. But the hour did come, as all hours do.
Those are the places we grew up and the times we spent together, but they aren't us. If we think they are, then we're lost, because times end and places are lost. We aren't any place or any time.
That's the thing. We are everywhere.
"It is not enough for you to succeed; your friends must also fail" = toxicity = BOO!
The only true paradise is paradise lost. - Marcel Proust
One's real life is so often the life that one does not lead. - Oscar Wilde
...and down they forgot as up they grew - e.e. cummings
Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song.
A medley of extemporanea:
And love is a thing that can never go wrong:
And I am Marie of Roumania.
-Dorothy Parker
Pain is inevitable: suffering is optional. - Greta Randolph
Make friends with your sweat this summer. She had a kind of boot-camp mentality Bridget decided. She was excited about privation.
Well, Bridget could get excited about privation too.
Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not. - Epicurus
In the depth of winter. I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer. - Albert Camus
Most people when they sensed a crisis got despotically curious, needing to stake out the far boundary of trouble.
Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterward. -Vernon Law
A wife like you had in a real family. Kids like you had in a real family. Kids who jumped around and needed things.
An opera in Italian was playing over the speaker to the left of Effie's head.
You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad. - Aldous Huxley
Illusions are art, for the feeling person, and it is by art that you live, if you do. - Elizabeth Bowen
Love was an idea. Nothing more or less.
If you lost the idea, if you somehow forgot about it, the person you loved became a stranger. Love lives in the memory. It can be forgotten.
But she knew the darkest parts of growing up had become linked to him that night. Those dark parts had attached to him & somehow overwhelmed the fragile idea of love.
Where there is nothing, there is the possibility of everything. When you live nowhere, you live everywhere.
You have to be like a turtle; you have to figure out how to bring your home along with you.
Carmen felt the familiar reactions, outmoded and dislodged though they were. She felt the old pull of gratitude. She felt needy & uncertain. She still clung to the notion of a friend, even a crappy one.
Life's a voyage that's homeward bound. - Herman Melville
crazy is what crazy do - The Black Eyed Peas
Poor empty pants
With nobody inside them. - Dr. Seuss
At first cock-crow the ghosts must go
Back to their quiet graves below. - Theodosia Garrison
Ruins stood for what was lost, and yet they were beautiful - peaceful, historic, intellectual. Not tragic or regrettable. Why not celebrate what you had had rather than spend your time mourning its passing? There could be joy in things that ended.
How powerful it was to give up your desires. It was like bargaining for a rug. Your only leverage was being able to walk away.
So often the world was made of jumps & starts, but tonight it was round & continuous.
She looked out the window and saw the proud full moon hanging over the Caldera, seeming to enjoy its own perfect reflection below.
It seemed to Carmen they were putting off having to touch their feet to the earth again. The earth turned and time passed and then they would have to think about what it meant. But the hour did come, as all hours do.
Those are the places we grew up and the times we spent together, but they aren't us. If we think they are, then we're lost, because times end and places are lost. We aren't any place or any time.
That's the thing. We are everywhere.
"It is not enough for you to succeed; your friends must also fail" = toxicity = BOO!