After returning to Deep Valley, Minnesota, for Betsy Ray's high-school years, I met up with her once again for a trip to Europe and the first couple of years of her married life back in Minneapolis. The final book in the series, Betsy's Wedding, is probably the Betsy-Tacy novel I've read the fewe...
To people in Deep Valley, it felt like Betsy and Tacy had always been friends, since it was difficult to imagine one without the other. The girls first became friends when they were five years old and Tacy moved to the house across the street from Betsy. Tacy is very bashful while Betsy is a born...
I think I like this one even more than Betsy-Tacy. Maud's descriptions are balm to my soul. For example: “It was June, and the world smelled of roses. The sunshine was like powdered gold over the grassy hillside” (p. 4). Such a beautiful turn of phrase. I also really love all of her descriptions ...
BETSY DID SOME THINKING about sororities during spring vacation. They weren’t at all what she had thought them to be. Julia’s experience made them seem shallow, and the ease with which Julia had abandoned the idea of joining one had been an eye-opener, too. Sisterhoods! That, thought Betsy, was t...