So be it. Meanwhile, here's the YA book I finished last weekend, Sister of the Bride by Beverly Cleary
Unlike Judy Blume's YA books, I'd read some Beverly Cleary before and one of her books, Ellen Tebbits, was on my comfort reads list for years. This one was a little less endearing but still a book I couldn't put down. It's honest, and it's eternal.
While Cleary's bride of the sixties disdained the China registry and preferred instead to buy dishes from some friends who ran a pottery studio, the bride of the eightees would have preferred gift cards to Chili's and the bride of today, extra memory cards for small electronics. Time goes on but the one constant in this world is that children coming-of-age want something different from what their parents wanted.
But the Grandmother's bridal veil, it turned out, was eternal. A beautiful bridal veil is timeless. (So are evil cats!)
It was a hoot watching the bride cave in on one wedding anachronism after another. And it was fun seeing the conflicting sides of the heroine, the sister, as she watched her big sister grow into a woman whom..."for the first time the thought came to Barbara that Greg was lucky to be marrying her sister."
Funny thing, this book isn't written in first person but I never realized it until I looked up a quote. Beverly Cleary is so good about getting into a person's head and staying there that she makes third person seem like best friends. Way to go!
The summary? Recommended only if you're a pre-teen girl. Otherwise, a lovely, timeless anachronism that you probably don't need to read. Still--I enjoyed it!
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