Favorite Sisters

Katie: 

The Everdeens 
My favorite sister relationship that stands out to me is Katniss and Primrose Everdeen from the Hunger Games.  I’m a protective older sister and appreciate the story about a protective older sister saving her younger sister from the games.  I like to think that if I was in Katniss’ situation, I would have also volunteered as tribute.  I would not have been as likely to succeed as Katniss, but I still would have done it.  Prim is also a great character and a great sister back to Katniss.  They value and support each other, and that is what I like most about their sister relationship.  

Jessie: 

Summer Sisters
My favorite “sisters” aren’t actually blood related. They’re two best friends from a novel called Summer Sisters, by Judy Blume.

Caitlin and Victoria “Vix,” have a dynamic friendship as they spend their summers together at Caitlin’s family vacation home in Martha’s Vineyard. The girls are complete opposites of each other, which makes for a fun read. When they were young, they had wonderful imaginations, creating “Cassandra” and “Vixen” , their wilder and sexier alter-egos. They meet and develop crushes on a couple of older local boys. As they grow older, they go through everything together! Jobs, boys, family struggles and tragedies. Caitlin’s always making hasty and outrageous decisions while Vix enjoys hard work and a steady lifestyle. You can feel the struggle as they try to remain best friends through it all. 

This book will make you blush, laugh and cry. Blume writes from the vantage points of all the different characters. You get to know each one in a different way, it’s lovely. I get lost in the story of Caitlin and Vix and all their “family” drama! 


Jacqueline: 

The Bennet Sisters
We all want to have loving and adoring relationships with our siblings. But let’s be real…it’s not always like that. I feel very fortunate that in my adult life, I get along really well with all my sisters. This wasn’t always the case. We’ve never had catastrophic fallouts but we have had fights. And depending on where I’ve been in my life, I’ve been closer to one sister or another. It happens. That’s why I love the Bennet sisters in Pride and Prejudice. Lizzie and Jane have an incredible loving bond where they truly admire and depend on each other but they also get quite embarrassed by their younger sisters. Idealistic and realistic. Poor Mary, though. 

Kellie:

The Avery sisters 
My best friends in my life have always been my sisters. They have been there through everything. They have caught my tears and bolstered my happiness. I love reading a story with strong emotional loving support.  My picks for favorite sisters are Cather and Ren from “FanGirl” by Rainbow Rowell. If you have not read “FanGirl” I highly recommend it! It is the story of Cather Avery, a freshman in college who is an introvert with high anxiety who gets herself through by writing fanfiction. She doesn’t like change and that is all college has presented her with. Especially because her twin sister Ren has decided to take this time to branch out more. Truthfully I hated Ren the first time I read this book. Then when rereading it I realized she has different mental issues that she is dealing with and you can’t be too harsh(But Cather is still my favorite). Spoiler: When they become friends again it is so amazing! I love the line about them “It is like you got your lost arm back or something like you’re a happy starfish.” Even in bad memories of the past Cath talks about Ren like her flashlight, the brightness in the darkest times. This story is a realistic view of sisterhood with ebbs and flows. Cather discovers she can survive without Ren, but life is sweeter with her in it. 

Kathy:

The Ingalls and Everdeen Sisters 
  Here is where my memory fails me!!  I’m sure the Happy Hollisters had at least two sisters, but to be honest I don’t think the sister relationship really stood out to me while reading them!!  I think mostly about movie/TV sister relationships when I think about this!!  The lovely “Sisters” song from “White Christmas”…but was that a book??  I guess I’d have to go with the Ingalls’ sisters from “The Little House on the Prairie”.  Mary and Laura Ingalls.  But then there is also Katniss and Prim from “The Hunger Games”.  Who doesn’t love that relationship?  I’m just SO pleased that MY daughters truly love and value their sisters in real life!!  As I value MY sisters!!!