Summer and the City
Written by Candace Bushnell
Narrated by Jenna Lamia
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About this audiobook
This sequel to The Carrie Diaries brings surprising revelations as Carrie learns to navigate her way around the Big Apple, going from being a country ""sparrow"" to the person she always wanted to be.
With her signature wit and sparkling humor, Candace Bushnell reveals the irresistible story of how Carrie met Samantha and Miranda, and what turned a small-town girl into one of New York City's most unforgettable icons, Carrie Bradshaw.
Summer is a magical time in New York City, and Carrie is in love with all of it—the crazy characters in her neighborhood, the vintage-clothing boutiques, the wild parties, and the glamorous man who has swept her off her feet. Best of all, she's finally in a real writing class, taking her first steps toward fulfilling her dream.
But as it becomes increasingly difficult to reconcile her past with her future, Carrie realizes that making it in New York is much more complicated than she ever imagined.
Candace Bushnell
Candace Bushnell is the critically acclaimed New York Times bestselling author of The Carrie Diaries, Sex and the City, Is There Still Sex in the City?, Lipstick Jungle, One Fifth Avenue, 4 Blondes, Trading Up, and Summer and the City, which have sold millions of copies. Sex and the City was the basis for the HBO hit shows and films, and its prequel, The Carrie Diaries, was the basis for the CW television show of the same name. Lipstick Jungle became a popular television show on NBC. Is There Still Sex in the City? is in development with Paramount Television. Candace lives in New York City and Sag Harbor. Visit her at www.candacebushnell.com.
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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5In this sequel to The Carrie Diaries, right after Carrie Bradshaw graduates high school (sometime in the early 1980s) and before she is expected to attend Brown University, she spends her first summer in New York City taking a writing course. Carrie encounters several minefields along the way, including a romance with a playwright 15 years her senior. She also encounters some gems as well: her first new friend Samantha Jones helps Carrie get out of several scrapes. Plus she also finds another good friend in Miranda Hobbes. Where's Charlotte? Carrie meets her at the very end of this book, hopefully making way for another installment. Enjoyable book especially if you are a Sex and the City fan: I was able to picture Carrie, Samantha, and Miranda just like on TV, only about 20 years earlier. Just like on the TV show, plenty of explicit scenes and innuendo, as well as drugs and booze.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5There's nothing really new here. A young Carrie takes on New York in her first summer in the city. Familiar characters from the television series make their debut and New York serves as a character inits own right. A beach read - quick and fun.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Sex. Love. New York. What more could you ask for?In this equally satisfying sequel to The Carrie Diaries we meet up with Carrie immediately where the first novel left off. Now in New York, Carrie has trouble getting used to such a big city and learning to maneuver her way through the land of "dreamers, big lights, and yellow taxis" that line the noisy yet utterly breathtaking crowded city that she intends to make her new home.Some scenes dragged and there were a few moments of "huh?" but the steaminess that is built up—and the naughty/adult satire and wise words that can only be delivered by Ms. Samantha Jones, make up for it!Fans of both the show/movies or even those wanting to give it a try will be finish this novel (which doesn't entirely follow HBO's version of Sex and the City, but more of the novels) feeling refreshed and wanting more. I can't wait to see if Candace Bushnell has more Carrie Diaries novels in store for us.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Carrie Bradshaw is finally in New York City. It’s where she’s always wanted to be, and she just knows it’s where she belongs. Summer & the City picks up right where The Carrie Diaries left off. Carrie is supposed to be attending Brown University in the fall at her father’s insistence. He wants her to become a scientist or something that will take her places, but all Carrie dreams of is becoming a famous writer. In the last book he reluctantly agreed to let her stay in New York for the summer and attend a writing class, but only after she agrees to go to Brown in the fall.Carrie knows she is going to make it big. She has the whole summer to make her mark, and secure a place in the city. Once this happens, she is sure she can convince her father that New York is the place for her. In true Carrie fashion, things don’t go exactly as she’d planned, but the lessons she learns and the friends she meets makes everything all worth it.If you are a fan of Sex & the City you have to read this book. While I enjoyed The Carrie Diaries, I LOVED this installment. This is where she first meets Samantha Jones and eventually Miranda Hobbes. Capote Duncan also plays a big role in this book. (As most of you SATC fans already know, Capote is in the very first episode of the TV series). There are definitely quite a few surprises in this book, and it is tons of fun to see who Samantha, Miranda and Carrie were as young women (Carrie is only 18 here). The back story gives a lot of insight into why the characters we fans know and love behave the way they do. This is a fresh take on Carrie & the girls, and I loved every word of it!
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5I really loving the beginnings of these four girls. I love the TV show so when I heard about this new book series I knew I had to read it. The book series is about the same as the show just as young ladies. As the reader, you see the beginning of how the fours girls meet, Carrie, Miranda, Samantha, and Charlotte.So this first book, The Carrie Diaries show the humbling beginning of Carrie Bradshaw. I love learning about her young self and how she came to be. This next book picks up right where it left off, Carrie finally in the Big Apple, New York City and on the door steps of Samantha Jones. I loved Carrie growing up in the city. She took it to right away and Samantha, of course you got to love her! To see where she started and to get into their lovely conversation is like being in the book myself. Carrie had to grow up fast in the city and she did.I like how in this book it shows Carrie struggling as a writer. She has trouble writing, trouble getting published, etc. Samantha is a go getter and quickly got Carrie on the right track with some very wrong people. Carrie took her first step in a relationship, with an way older man, and took to the route to adult hood. Some things I was shocked that Carrie would do but she is learning. The book also showed where Carrie form her smoking habit. LOLAs I said before this book is just like the TV series but with a 18 yr old Carrie. There are some very adult situations in the book so I recommend for an older YA audience, though the book will have you laughing, gasping, and just plain ol' good old drama!
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5I loved the TV series (much to the disbelief and horror of everyone I know), and was therefore disappointed with the first 'Sex and the City' book which the series was very loosely based on. The novel lacked the charm and humour of the programmes. I do think Bushnell however is improving with each novel, spot-on with the nuances of social interaction and satirically nailing the narrow strand of society she writes about. In Summer and the City it appeared she had absorbed the characters from the TV series, and therefore gave a very believable and entertaining prequel, and left me wanting to read more.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5I loved this book! Light, breezy, easy read for a weekend of escape.
You do not have to be a fan of "Sex and the City" to enjoy this book. You just have to like a good story. - Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Loved this! Candace Bushnell takes us back to the 80s in New York City, when Carrie Bradshaw is 18, ambitious and fresh from Connecticut. We meet Samantha, Miranda and finally, Charlotte. This book captures the spirit of SATC much better than, ironically enough, Bushnell's original book, Sex and the City. She has really come along as a writer, discarding any claims to pretension and writing honestly about women, men and finding your way. I can't wait to read the next one.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Teenage Carrie shows all of the most irritating traits of grown-up Carrie with very few of the redeeming features. She's an egocentric, entitled brat prone to cheesy puns and wordplay. I really liked the first book in this series, but Carrie becomes insufferable the moment she begins her NY life. And she's 17! Her adventures in this book are not that different from what she gets up to on the show at age 35. Every time she noted that she's 17 I was kind of surprised.
I really liked teen Miranda, though. - Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5esta increíble lo estuve traduciendo para poderlo leer me encantaría hubiera una versión de este libro en español, o si la hay por favor ¿alguien me podría decir como conseguirla?