So speaking of forever, how about that Judy Blume book? I think the only thing that I really have to say about it is exactly what my friend Danielle said when she saw me reading it, "That book is filthy." Since this is the internet, the italics could be misconstrued to mean that she was repulsed by this, but that is clearly why this book was worth reading. Duh. Sometimes I felt dirty reading it because I was in public. I know there was no little bunny and some jugs hanging out on the cover, but there might as well have been because I felt like I was reading straight up erotica. This is the first challenged book I read that I actually shrugged my shoulders in understanding after reading it.
The long and short of it (hehe he... apparently my mind will be in the gutter for the remainder of this review... you've been warned) is Katherine meets Michael at a New Year's Eve party and even though she tries to play it off like she isn't interested to us, the reader, she totes wants on him. Turns out that he too wants her, despite bringing some other chick to the party. Drama, drama, drama of the high school variety, and then they're going steady. They go on a date and then hang out in her house with more privacy than my parents would have allowed and start hooking up on a regular basis. The rest of the book progresses with their explicitly fooling around and professing they will love one another forever. Katherine's parents are concerned by the serious nature of their daughter's relationship and commands her to be a tennis counselor in another state. Boo hoo. End of the world to begin in five... four... three... two... one... or so it feels to someone with their first love.
SPOILER!
They break up and I laughed. Haha. Oh high school love, how naive and adorable you are. I remember you like a nagging pimple on my upper lip.
First Line:
"Sybil Davis has a genius I.Q. and has been laid by at least six different guys."*when an actor's real name is this awesome, all names of the characters portrayed are irrelevant. For the record.
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I felt like I was reading straight up erotica
Whereas in past semesters, people have read Forever... and said, what's the big deal? this is so tame!
It's gonna be an interesting discussion tomorrow. :)
When I read the books for this class I try to relocate my mindframe to high school and had I read this back in the day.... straight up erotica.
p.s. watch this video again after (or if) you read American Born Chinese. (And that's all I'm going to say...)
You don't love The Sandlot?! I adore that movie so much I taught a whole lesson with it my junior year, hahaha.
And yeah, I wish that book had been available to me in my youth, although I know by the time I was in high school I was already reading "real" erotica, so...maybe I'm damaged?
Ha! I seriously get that "For-ev-er" bit from The Sandlot stuck in my head once a week at the minimum. Love it.
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