Quarantine re-read. Still good.

I laughed. I cried. I read it in a few hours. Yay!

I loved this series. I have reread it multiple times at different times in my life and it always hits a cord.

I was in the mood of going back to a childhood favourite, since losing yourself in a story is different when you're grown up. A regular novel for adults cannot grasp me in quite the same way as a moving or exciting childhood pageturner - the kind of reading that's so easy you may as well have been watching a film. However, a new YA novel would not do. I would get too critical about something new, so it had to be a book or series that I really loved as a kid.

That's how I landed on The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants. It's interesting to compare the opinions of teenage me and current me. For example, as a teenager, I never thought that it is strange that a bunch of fifteen-year-olds get to run around with minimal parental supervision, booking flights by themselves and basically doing whatever they want when they want with seemingly limitless financial resources.

But of course, that's the point. Their stories would have been excruciatingly boring if they were four poor teenage girls stuck in their hometown doing nothing the whole summer. (God knows I've had enough experience with that myself). So although I did notice this rather obvious fact this time around, I took it with a grain of salt and just enjoyed the moving, warm, and fuzzy story that is The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants.

I read the entire series for the first time my junior year of college (my current status as of fall 2018). Let's state the obvious; the movie is SO different, so do not go off of the movie. I, of course, was too young to read these when they first came out, so I saw the movie first... big sin in the book world. But I took a class in YA Lit. and this was one of our books. I was so hooked. I ended up reading the rest of the series over the Christmas break (that's like a month, they are that good). This series was really refreshing and really made me value friendship.

This book is exactly what I expected it to be. Breezy and fun to read but also reaching into the value of strong, real relationships, love and understanding yourself.

This series is fun and the first book is the best one in my eyes.