![]() The book follows Katherine, in the middle of her senior year in high school, who finds herself strongly attracted to Michael, a boy she meets at a New Year’s party. ![]() I firmly believe all women should read this novel, it’s empowering, seductive and at its heart firmly realistic. Realistically though, this book is the perfect accompaniment to the birds and the bees talk, sex education in school and the ceremonial handing over of tampons and sanitary towels. Forever deals with female sexuality and teenage hormones better than any other novel I’ve read and though perhaps I was a bit young to be reading something like this, it was a breath of fresh air from there usual romantic drivel.īecause of the novel’s content, it has been the frequent target of censorship and appears on the American Library Association list of the 100 Most Frequently Challenged Books of 1990–2000, placing at number seven. However, on a boring Monday afternoon, when i’d been dragged to the local Tesco of all places, I discovered Judy Blume’s 1975 controversial novel. ![]() I felt like all my life I’d been led down the lane of Prince Charmings, happy-ever-afters and what I knew to be somewhat disingenuous love stories. ![]() Regardless of whether Edward in Twilight was a control freak, he was the ideal, apparently. ![]() I feel as a girl I had been inundated with countless novels that glorified love, warts and all. It seems cliché to say that a book changed my life, but at the tender age of 12, Forever by Judy Blume truly did. ![]()
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