I think I've read all of her novels. They all were special to me. Just some random information about her and read along
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Alpha Raven Andromeda — 6 years ago(January 12, 2020 10:36 PM)
She does.
Edit: I've been sitting racking my brain trying to remember other favorite writers from my childhood.
I remember Judy Blume because recently doctors told me about a genetic defect I never knew existed. It immediately made me think of one of Judy Blume's novels I read during my childhood.
When I wiki one of the novels, the image of the girl has a abnormal nostril like Miley and straight blonde hair like Miley.
Just weird stuff happening in my life. -
Aj_goodfellow — 6 years ago(January 12, 2020 10:48 PM)
It helped me to read Are You There, God? It’s Me, Margaret when I got my period for the first time. It eased my mind knowing I wasn’t the only one going through it. Also, reading Deenie was comforting when I was dealing with my scoliosis and wearing that back brace during high school. Further, losing my virginity was mirrored through the events in Forever which proved to be yet another cathartic release for me as a young woman.
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Aj_goodfellow — 6 years ago(January 13, 2020 12:26 AM)
I read all her books, okay?
A gay little flaming elementary school kid, okay?
Superfudge, Tales of a 4th grade nothing, Frecklejuice, Blubber, Tiger Eyes, Otherwise Known as Sheila The Great, etc. EVERYTHING, okay?
Sheesh I was just trying to bond with you. -
Aj_goodfellow — 6 years ago(January 13, 2020 01:50 AM)
I read AYTGIMM in the third grade and a bunch of girls came up to me.
“Why are you reading that book?” they demanded. “You shouldn’t be reading that book,” they informed me in a most incendiary tone.
They were like a gang. Like the Pink Ladies in Grease except with hair scrunchies and jelly shoes instead of pink jackets and lipstick.
I didn’t get it. “Why shouldn’t I be reading this book?” I wondered.
It wasn’t until I got to the part where Margaret gets her first period that I vaguely understood. They felt this was privy knowledge that a lowly boy such as myself should never know.
Could never
know, let alone understand.
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Alpha Raven Andromeda — 6 years ago(January 13, 2020 01:55 AM)
Oh okay. Why didn't you just say some of that to begin with rather than pretending to be a girl having your period relating to me? We aren't in grade school. We're both adults.
Well I'm sure Judy Blume would love to hear your story. -
Alpha Raven Andromeda — 6 years ago(January 13, 2020 03:16 AM)
I am way too old to revisit those novels. I do remember endless hours spent reading them. I had no idea Judy Blume was such an influential young adult novelist because I was one of the only teen girls that read so many of her books. The other girls in school preferred Sweet Valley High. I did read a few of those novels and thought they were cool but I could not identify with those characters lifestyle like I did with Judy's novels. If I had the mentality that I have as an adult now, back when I was a teen, I would have loved the Sweet Valley High series because I'm more into that now than dysfunctional women/teens/young adults characters in Judy's books. I still am happy she wrote all of those novels. It got me a very hard period of human development. I was soo bored and felt misunderstood and out of place.