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Are We All Lemmings and Snowflakes?

Holly Bourne

9.3 (3 Ratings) Rate It

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Welcome to Camp Reset, a summer camp with a difference. A place offering a shot at “normality”...

Meatballs (1979)

6.3 (4 Ratings) Rate It

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Tripper (Bill Murray) is the head counselor at a budget summer camp called Camp Northstar. In truth,...

The Goodbye Summer

Sarah Van Name

7.0 (1 Ratings) Rate It

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Caroline can't wait for summer to end so that she and her older boyfriend, Jake, can run away...

Fiction Contemporary YA

ashezbookz (32 KP) rated Lumberjanes: Friendship to the Max: Vol. 2 in Books

Jul 5, 2018

Don't think this series will get anything under 5 * from me it's so unique and cool it seems at some points to mix myths and legends all with a summer camp that all sounds like so much fun - I truly need to be Ripleys friend in real life . amazing

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Julianne Moore recommended The Interestings in Books (curated)

"I couldn't put down this story of a group of friends who meet in summer camp as teenagers and remain close through middle age. I am always infatuated with Meg Wolitzer's characters, and her intense interest in their relationships and importance to each other. And she always makes me laugh."

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Peanuts': The Beagle Has Landed, Charlie Brown Ogn: Beagle Has Landed, Charlie Brown OGN

Vicki Scott and Paige Braddock

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The Peanuts Gang is back in an all-new, fun-filled original graphic novel! Few events can be more...

Madman (1982)

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At a summer camp for youths, cocky pre-teen calls out the name of mass serial killer “Madman...

Whatchareadin (174 KP) rated The Interestings in Books

May 10, 2018

I received this book as a giveaway on Goodreads.
First, I must say, this was the first book I read by Meg Wolitzer. And while it was long, she is a great writer. The story flowed in a way that didn't make it seem as long as it really was.

The Interestings, is the story of 6 friends who meet at an art summer camp. Ash, Ethan, Jonah, Goodman, and Cathy had all been to camp before, but this was the first year for Julie, who later became Jules. The friendship that they formed during this summer was one not to be broken, even over time. Spirit-In-The-Woods was a 'magical' place for Jules. Having just lost her father, she needed someplace to go that she could be free. The story is told through her eyes.

You see the friends go through several "Interesting" things together, marriage, jobs, kids, death, and something no one thought would/could happen.

All in all, this book was interesting, but not for any specific reason. This could have been any group of friends, that attended any summer camp, anywhere. I was always wanting to know what was going to happen next.