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Forever...
by Judy Blume
I feel somewhat guilty for rating this a 3, but for me that is the best I can do. I'm a 67-year-old woman and this is a book written from the perspective of a 17-18 year old girl, for young girls and boys. The book is dated. I chose to read it based on the news that Judy Blume's books are being banned by right wing republicans. You know, the people who pretend that abstinence is an option and everyone should practice it (resulting in massive teenage pregnancy rates in red states).
Anyhow. It's no more explicit than many other books I read when I was younger than Katherine and Michael. It's a story of young love that turns out to be lust. It's a story that played in countless young lives and continues to do to this day. The writing was surprisingly pedestrian; surprisingly, because I have understood Judy Blume to be a great writer. So?
So maybe, just maybe, this was a great book at the time it was written and for the audience intended. I'm just too old to approach it from that perspective and in all honesty, I finished the book because I felt as if I must. No regrets, and no more young adult fiction for this old woman.
Anyhow. It's no more explicit than many other books I read when I was younger than Katherine and Michael. It's a story of young love that turns out to be lust. It's a story that played in countless young lives and continues to do to this day. The writing was surprisingly pedestrian; surprisingly, because I have understood Judy Blume to be a great writer. So?
So maybe, just maybe, this was a great book at the time it was written and for the audience intended. I'm just too old to approach it from that perspective and in all honesty, I finished the book because I felt as if I must. No regrets, and no more young adult fiction for this old woman.