#27

There's been lots going on in my world between books 26 & 27...but I haven't been able to write about my growing marathon fear, the missing of my college son, the stress of a new school year, the fun of XC, the stess and joy of life...so here I am, at book #27.  Commencement by J. Courtney Sullivan.  I read it because her second book, engagement, was recommended as a good summer read ~ and I am unable to read a second book without reading the first {even when they are totally two separate pieces of fiction...}  It was a long one {400+pages} and rambling, at times, about four college friends ~ how their separate lives were never so very separate.  How dreams and passions can get mixed up.  How love and family can be the same thing...and how they can be very different.  The ending left me wanting more...which makes it a good ending.

Quotes:
p320 ~ April's just a Dixie cup of crazy.  Lydia's more like a twenty-gallon tank.

p372 ~ Smith had left its mark on her, so that the place would always feel like home, but she was a stranger here now.  In each of er friends, her Smith College self would always live on.  Maybe that was why they were all still so important to one anotehr, even though so much had changed.

fl: Celia woke with a gasp.  ll: "Is it you?" Sally said at last.  "It's me."