Tuesday, November 4, 2014

A Hundred Summers by Beatriz Williams

     



        A Hundred Summers is a romantic love story between two different times, winter  1931 and the summer of 1938.  Lily Dane, Budgie, Graham Pendleton and Nick Greenwald appear in both stories, but lives are completely different each time.
 
1931, New Hampshire and Massachusetts

      Lily and Budgie, to best friends, make their way to a Dartmouth football game in New Hampshire.  The quarter back, Nick Greenwald, catches lily's eye.  Once the games ends, Budgie and Lily go to the bar where they meet up with Budgies boyfriend, Graham Pendleton.  Along side him is Nick Greenwald.  Lily and Nick take a walk in the part.  Nick being a gentlemen gave lily his coat, only forget to retrieve it when they go their separate ways.  Nick makes the long drive the next morning for his coat back.  Lily and him go out to breakfast.  Just as they continuously do over the next couple weeks. They keep visiting each other more until winter break when they will be close together for a month. Winter Vacation begins and Lily and Nick begin to make their plans.  However, first comes meeting the parents. First Lily's, then Nicks. How Will their parents react? Will Lily and Nick stay together? You must read this enhancing Love story to find out!

                      1938,  Seaview Rhode Island (Spoiler)
     Just like every year  ever since Lily was little, she spent her summer at Seaview.  A small little town on the ocean in Rhode Island.  However, this summer is a little different.  Lily is nervous to see Budgie.  She hasn't spoken to her in two years.  Ever since Budgie married Lily's ex-fiance, Nick Greenwald. Lily confronts them at a restaurant where she introduces Budgie and Nick to Kiki, her six year old sister that she watches out for. Since all three of them are spending the summer in Seaview, their is no avoiding each other.  Lily spends a good chunk of her days with Budgie while Nick plays around with Kiki.  Until Graham, Budgie's old boyfriend, decides to take a brake at seaview.  Lily doesn't know what to do.  Still having feelings for Nick, she has to decide weather its time to move on and leave her past.  Will she not be able to move form the past? Or will she start seeing Graham again? All these answers fall throughout this dramatic love story.  Read it to find out!


This blog contains my 2 blog entries for this month.  Also, A Hundred Summers was a 400 page book.  

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