June 2011
2 posts
Sisterhood Everlasting Tour
Tour Events
New York City
Barnes & Noble (Upper East Side) — Talk, Q&A, Signing — 6/15 — 7:00 PM
Boston
Wellesley Free Library — Talk, Q&A, Signing — 6/14 — 7:00 PM
Milwaukee
Next Chapter — Reception, Talk, Q&A, Signing — 6/21 — 7:00 PM
Chicago
Anderson’s (Naperville) — Talk, Q&A, Signing — 6/22 — 7:00 PM
Vernon Area Library — Luncheon, Talk, Q&A, Signing —...
May 2011
13 posts
“Guilt, like the cat she’d never had, wove around her legs and hopped up onto the...”
– Ann Brashares, The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants (Day Thirteen: a quote about cats)
“Why are you giving me this hypocritical lecture about treating people right,...”
– Carmen (via lili5393)
“Tibby: Well, maybe sometimes it’s easier to be mad at the people you trust....”
– (via holdingontosecrets)
“It would be easy to say that the pants changed everything that summer. But...”
– Sisterhood Of The Traveling Pants (via karinanicole)
“All my life, everybody has seen me a certain way. What do you see?”
– Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants (via wordsfromtheheartquotestyle)
“I look up to those people who have lost everything, yet love others beyond...”
– The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants (via itsyourtimenow)
"Sisterhood Everlasting" Excerpt!!
“Once upon a time there were four pregnant women who met in
an aerobics gym. I’m not joking; that’s how this story begins.”
“The problem is every time I try to get close to somebody it’s like there’s...”
– tibby [the sisterhood of the traveling pants 2] (via perfectlycrazy)
WSJ →
“I admit that I feel half like a mother, and half like a grandmother, this time around. More like a grandmother when I’m muttering about what kind of advanced degree you need to fold this new kind of stroller. But I feel unalloyed pleasure watching my 15-year-old—now the size of a man—carry his tiny brother around.” - The Wall Street Journal
Read the full Article here
xo -Ann
Sisterhood Everlasting
Dear Readers, When I started writing about the Sisterhood ten years ago, I wanted to create characters with big, open-ended lives-girls who wouldn't fit into a single novel. At the same time, I wanted to tell a proper story with a beginning, middle, and end. So I planned a four-book sequence to tell that story. And as I got to the end, I realized I was ready for the end of that story, but not...
April 2011
16 posts
Fire Island
03/15/2011 at 7:24 pm (The Last Summer of Me and You) · Edit
Fire Island is a barrier island–a skinny stretch of sand between the Great South Bay and the Atlantic Ocean. It’s just sitting out there in the water, 32 miles long and 1/4 of a mile wide at its widest. Because it’s essentially a sandbar, it’s vulnerable.
In the famous and terrible hurricane of 1938, the eye...
To Grow Up or Not To
02/28/2011 at 7:10 pm (The Last Summer of Me and You) · Edit
There’s a woman I used to see at on Fire Island sometimes. I don’t think she goes there anymore. I never met her, but I was struck by her, aware for some reason we are similar in age, but that she’d been coming to this beach since she was born, while I had found a place here only as an adult.
I remember one...
My Name is Memory
10/27/2009 at 5:37 am (My Name Is Memory) · Edit
My name is not memory, in fact. But that is the name of my new book, which I just finished this week. I am excited about it. It will be published by Riverhead Books in early June.
But before I go on, I have to apologize. I think I am the worst multi-tasker in the world. No, that is too grand. I am a bad multi-tasker. I have a lot...
My new hobby
04/30/2009 at 3:27 pm (Ann Brashares) · Edit
A little over a year ago I started taking piano lessons. I last took them when I was ten, so it’s been awhile. I am terrible at it, and my brain and fingers are maddeningly slow, but I really love it. The piece I’ve been working on is a Mozart sonata (#16 in C) and it is beautiful. Well, it’s not beautiful when I play it, but you...
The latest
01/26/2009 at 1:23 pm (My Name Is Memory) · Edit
There has been some confusion in switching over from my old website to my new one. I think it’s all figured out, finally. Thanks for your patience. We’re still trying to bring the comments section over from the old site. They should get here soon.
I set up a new mailbox (ann@annbrashares.com or just click on “write to Ann”),...
Today’s the day
01/13/2009 at 6:58 am (Uncategorized) · Edit
That my new book, 3 Willows, goes on sale. I’ve got the usual anxiety. I’ve also got the usual excitement, but I guess excitement never feels usual. It’s the beginning of life for new characters and their stories. Now they are in the world and they get to interact with readers and change and evolve as they go. I start my book...
An Update
09/09/2008 at 8:40 am (Uncategorized) · Edit
My deep thanks to all of you who have read my posts and left comments. It is so nice to hear from you. I wanted to take a minute to answer some questions several of you have asked.I am gearing up to write another book about the girls (women) of the Sisterhood. I am thinking about them quite a bit later in their lives (mid to late...
Writing Young
09/08/2008 at 8:38 am (Uncategorized) · Edit
I tend to write about characters who are younger than me. In the Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants books, the characters started out being sixteen and by the end were nearly twenty. In the Last Summer (of You and Me) the three main characters are in their early and mid-twenties. At readings and in interviews people often ask me why...
It’s Been a While
04/26/2008 at 8:32 am (Uncategorized) · Edit
I’m sorry to have been away so long. After having had a very busy year last year with two new books out, Forever in Blue and The Last Summer (of You & Me), I took a long break from all professional enterprises other than simply writing. I think it’s hard to promote your writing while actually trying to write. It’s hard for me,...
Running
06/18/2007 at 6:53 pm (Sisterhood Of The Traveling Pants, Uncategorized) · Edit
It’s pretty clear that writers have a strong influence on our characters. We make them who they are. They are nothing without us. Until we publish a story with them in it, anyway, and then they make a break for it.
The thing that surprises me (one of the things) is how our characters can...
Publication Day
06/05/2007 at 8:28 am (Uncategorized) · Edit
This is the day my new book comes out. Always a slightly (or profoundly) nervewracking experience. I got up at 6 am to start doing radio interviews. I talked to Whoopi Goldberg. That was fun. I tend to get involved in the conversation and forget to mention the title of the book and website info at the beginning and end, which is what...
The Wedding Dress
05/25/2007 at 8:27 am (Uncategorized) · Edit
If any of you have come to one of my bookstore events, you’ve probably heard the story of my wedding dress. I won’t give the whole thing right now, but the general idea is that it is a magical dress that not only conforms to the wearer-whatever her shape-but also transforms her and connects her to the women, before and after, who have...
Movie
05/19/2007 at 8:23 am (Uncategorized) · Edit
Well, I think Warner Brothers is really making a sequel to the Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants movie. I think this because my phone rang from a place called Sisterhood, Inc. I was quite confused until the very nice woman on the other end told me she was calling from the production office of the new movie. “Does that mean it’s really...
Pie
05/15/2007 at 8:22 am (Uncategorized) · Edit
My brother is a lawyer. (One of my brothers. I’ve got three in total.) His job is intense and he works really, really hard. He works for a firm here in NYC and his area of specialty is called Private Equity. I throw this term about with the slight fear that someone will ever ask me what it means. Recently my brother was coming up for...
The Other Woman
I had an insight about our dog, Finny. (His actual name is Phinneas. That sounds very fancy, doesn’t it?) Finny does not quite consider me his mother or even his owner. Though well-meaning and sweet, he doesn’t listen to a thing I say. He drags me around by his leash when we take a so-called walk. In the Finny hierarchy, my husband, Jacob, is alone at the top and the rest of us are...
The First One
I am kind of excited because this is my first blog entry. I don’t know if anyone will actually read it, but it is fun to sit here and write it.
To begin with I am a writer. I live in New York City with my husband and my three kids and a large sweet dog named Finny, and a hamster named Moonbeam, who bites. The first book I wrote was called The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants. My newest book is...
March 2011
1 post
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Hi,
I think I’m gonna move my blog posts over here too. So I can connect with more people. You may notice a little redundancy but I hope you will forgive me while I get the Tumblr Swing of things!
-ann
