Girls in White Dresses

Like I said before, I find a lot of good book suggestions on Pinterest, which is where I found Jennifer Close's Girls in White Dresses. Like The Awakening, this was another book that was listed in a blog of books every girl should read in her 20s. I was definitely looking forward to reading it, and let me tell you, it was phenomenal. 

I knew after the first two chapters that I had found a new book to add to my list of favorites. I couldn't put it down, and yet I tried to stall because I didn't want to finish it. I don't know the last book that I loved this much. 

It's about a group of girls who move to New York fresh out of college, and follows them through the next 10 years of their lives. They have their bad relationships, crappy jobs, embarrassing parents, and annoying friends, and I don't know that I have ever read a book that was so relatable. Jennifer Close does a fantastic job bringing the girls to life and I found myself believing that they were real people, and if they were we would definitely be friends. 

The way that the girls banter and the situations they get in are funny in a really normal way. Over and over again I would tell my friend stories out of the book, and we would laugh like we knew them and say,"That's totally us". I am not embarrassed to say that I laughed out loud like a creep on more than one occasion. 

I am not exaggerating when I say that I will recommend this to everyone that I know. At one time or another, we have all been with a guy and not known where we stood. We have all had that friend that goes back to the same pompous a-hole over and over again, and we have all had nights of drinking too much wine with the girls and mornings we thought we were dying. Girls in White Dresses puts all of those experience into words. 

It was fantastic, and I was sad when I finished it. This truly, and easily, became one of my favorite books, and it is definitely one that I will read over again.