Comments on: Sisters on pages

By: Bethany

Bethany — Fri, 30 Apr 2010 17:13:26 +0000

I just got off skype with one of my sisters, lol. My tiny big sister and I cowrote horrible twin sister capers when we were really young. Those are rightfully not on the list. But I almost thought putting Little Women was lazy, lol, because it's so obvious. And I think the #1 for me would be The Color Purple.

By: Joelle

Joelle — Mon, 05 Apr 2010 23:44:25 +0000

I don't have a sister, but I love the YA by Aimee Friedman THE YEAR MY SISTER GOT LUCKY.

By: DGLM

DGLM — Mon, 05 Apr 2010 14:51:54 +0000

Emily, I've had a copy of THE OPPOSITE OF ME waiting for me to read for a while now. Thanks for the thumbs up! ~ Rachel

By: Alli

Alli — Mon, 05 Apr 2010 10:09:37 +0000

THE ALPHABET SISTERS by Monica McInerney – make sure you have tissues handy for the last sixty pages (and you're not reading in public).

By: Emily Winslow

Emily Winslow — Mon, 05 Apr 2010 07:33:04 +0000

"THE OPPOSITE OF ME" by Sarah Pekkanen. It's fantastic!

By: Carol Grannick

Carol Grannick — Mon, 05 Apr 2010 06:48:13 +0000

Oh, I would have Jane Austened my list, completely: Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility – they'd have to be on.

By: arlee bird

arlee bird — Mon, 05 Apr 2010 00:03:35 +0000

Have you checked out what's happening at the Blogging From A to Z April Challenge. We have some really creative participants who have joined us!

Lee

By: Mary Witzl

Mary Witzl — Sat, 03 Apr 2010 18:51:44 +0000

Liz Jensen's 'Egg Dancing' has a wonderful couple of sisters in it, all the more believable because they were close, but always squabbling.

By: M. M. Justus

M. M. Justus — Fri, 02 Apr 2010 22:22:22 +0000

I have three (much) older sisters, and, unfortunately, our relationships are the opposite of yours and your sister's. I used to try, but I've pretty much given up.

As the youngest of four girls, though, I've always been fascinated with families of girls in fiction, mostly children's fiction -- the Marches, the Ingallses, the Bennetts...

What always intrigued me is that it was almost inevitable for the second daughter to be the viewpoint character.

There's a thesis in there for some grad student, I'm sure. But not for me [g].

By: Sarah N Fisk

Sarah N Fisk — Fri, 02 Apr 2010 22:09:57 +0000

My sister (3 years younger) and I didn't get along very well when we lived with our parents but we started living together after she graduated college (we had a trial period first - she came to live with me for an internship during college) and we get along great now. In fact, I'm considering joining the Coast Guard and she wants to follow me.

I also have to agree with the relationship in Hunger Games. There aren't too many scenes between the sisters, but let's put this in perspective - Katniss volunteered to fight in a DEATH MATCH for her sister.

In one of my novels, the MC is an only child and in the other she has an older brother who more or less raised her after their parents died.