Forever . . .
Ratings18
Average rating3.1
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Ratings18
Average rating3.1
A Time Best YA Book of All Time (2021). Over 4 million copies sold! Judy Blume’s groundbreaking novel about first relationships, first love, and…the first time—now with a stunning new look! The bed is brass, covered with a patchwork quilt, and “nice and firm,” Michael says, “in case you’re interested.” Katherine is interested. Katherine and Michael are ready—for each other, for love. Katherine is ready for her first time. They are both ready for this to be forever. They are perfect together, inseparable. Until the summer separates them, and Katherine meets Theo. But she and Michael are truly in love. That means forever. Right? Is this really the love of a lifetime, or the very beginning of a lifetime of love?
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Well I think this is another book that I'll have to give to my niece and nephews when they become teenagers.
I don't know why I read this again.
But I really can't believe Katherine let go of Michael, I mean he was everything a girl can ask for. But I guess, sometimes, perfect is still not enough.
i wasn't that crazy about this book. it felt like it was almost entirely dialogue and i couldn't tell that the characters cared about each other aside from them saying “i love you”. it felt like there wasn't a lot of emotion in the writing and it was incredibly fast-paced. also the synopsis on the back and what was made out to be the main conflict didn't happen until the last 40 pages of the book. wasn't crazy about it but it wasn't awful!
This book came out in 1975, yet it's amazingly honest, comfortable, and sex-positive. Judy Blume presents sex not as a foreign thing or a sinful thing, but as a thing real teenagers do and talk about. It is neither preachy nor lenient, neither lewd nor prudish. In this story, sex just is what it is. She covers birth control, Planned Parenthood, pregnancy, abortion, and the emotional side to a physical relationship. Blume also does not pretend that a girl's first time is the way it is in other books (unbearably painful or unimaginably blissful, take your pick), nor is her first sexual partner the only one she will ever have in her life. Honest is the best way to describe this book. The main character, Katherine, becomes sexually active in a natural way, and makes real, natural decisions. I didn't read anything that was unrealistic or cliche. This was my first time reading it, and I definitely think this should be something girls read before making decisions about their bodies and their relationships.
