#8

Second book of spring bread 2013 ~ #8 on the year is Girls in White Dresses by Jennifer Close.  Each chapter details the transition from college student to 'grown up' of a group of college friends.  Some chapters are heartbreaking and some are laugh out loud.  Most ring very true to what I've seen in life.  I did feel a little removed from the whole thing...I was that girl who married her college sweetheart, but unlike the girl in the book, 22 years later, we're still going strong.
Quotes:
p20 ~ "Appletinis," Meg had said brightly.  "Do you want one?"  It was the last complete sentence she said that night.  {HA!}
p123-124 ~ Mary had always been scared of her imagination...Brian Sullivan brought all of that back.  Every time he came into her office and stood next to her desk, Mary imagined waht would happen if she put her hands on his belt buckle and started to take off his pants.  Her blood pounded in her ears, and she tried to reassure herself that she wasn't going to do any such thing.  But then she's [ass him in the hall, and she'd think, "What would happen if I just went up to him and said, 'Let's have sex right now'?"  She tried to tell herself that she was in charge of her action, that her brain couldn't take over.  And then she thought, "This is what happens to people right before they go insane."
fl: Isabella's sister, Molly, was married with ten bridesmaids in matching tea-length, blue floral Laura Ashley dresses.  ll: "Sweet Jesus," Isabella said, looking at the bottle.  "You're right.  The worm turned."