The author: Beverly Sommers
Publication: Fawcett Juniper, 1993
Got it from: Freemont Books
No. of times I've now read this book: 2
Age at first reading of this book: 15-16
No. of years before I started going, hmm, what was that book my friend loaned me back in high school? It was kind of bad, but kind of good: 9-10
No. of frustrated hours I spent looking for this book online using my mad librarian skills, before turning to my last resort and asking the SB's: 4-5
No. of months between sending my request to the SB's and having them post it: 4
Length of time the request was up before someone correctly identified this book: 13 hours, 51 minutes
No. of days after I got my answer before I went hunting for the book at my local used book store: 5
No. of minutes it took me to find my book once I entered the YA section: 7
Total cost of book: $1
No. of minutes after purchasing before I realized it was a discard from a library where I work: 30
No. of pages in book: 120
No. of hours it took to read when I brought it home: 2
No. of times D. asked me if I'd gotten to the groping scene yet: 1
No. of times I thought to myself, "they'd never put that in a YA book now!": a lot
No. of times the characters had popcorn or chocolate bars or something else that made me hungry: too many to count
No. of boys the main character kisses: 2
No. of times she likes it: 1
Amount of time for character development, given the book is only 120 pages: not much
Meanings of sisterhood that I got from this book: 0
Crazy unrealistic plot device used to get the long-lost sisters together? Oh yeah
No. of seconds it takes before you realize the dorky football player is going to end up with the heroine, not that creepy poet guy: 0.5
Altogether? Solid god B, and that's extra points for bringing me back to the early '90s.
2 comments:
Is it a YA book? IS there a groping scene?---
I haven't found, personally, much explicitness in today's YA books. When I was 12/13, I read quite a bit of Norma Klein. I don't see her anymore in the bookstores. She wrote quite literally of sexual experiences. Have you read anything by her?
Donna
This is a YA book. If you look at the tags on my posts, I try to put them in appropriate categories. There's a brief "hand under the sweater" moment that totally shocked me back in high school, lol.
I think when I said, "they'd never put that in now," I was more referring to early '90's anachronisms. Like teenage girls eating. But yeah. Do you think the right-wing nutjobs have infiltrated the YA genre and are removing all sexual texts? Only time will tell.
Bitch magazine mentioned Norma Klein. I'll have to check it out.
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