A review by gaderianne
Everything I Needed to Know about Being a Girl I Learned from Judy Blume by Jennifer O'Connell

2.0

For all those Judy Bloom fans out there - boy does this book bring back some memories and make you want to crack open those old volumes and see what insight you can get from them now that you are past awkward adolescence. (Indeed, some of the contributors speak to this very thing.) However, after a awhile the essays got a little old. They seemed to say the same thing and focus on the same Judy Bloom books and/or characters (I lost count of how many times "Forever" was referenced). On one hand this speaks to the relevance of these characters and how they really spoke to people...on the other hand, for me, it made a bit of a tedious read. One essay mentioning Margaret and her breast issues read the same as another....