When you ride the subway, you need one of two things to occupy your time, reading material or a source of music. Both is ideal, but at least one is necessary. Tonight’s choice was Everything I Learned About Being a Girl I Learned From Judy Blume, which I hear about through our own Jen Walker. Like pretty much every girl who grew up in the 70s and 80s, I was a huge fan of Judy B., particularly Starring Sally J. Freedman as Herself. The book has been an entertaining nostalgia trip, triggering memories of characters and stories I hadn’t thought about in years, but apparently never really forgot.
It wasn’t just girls in the 70s and 80s who were into Ms. Blume.
Then Again, Maybe I Won’t was one of my favorite books when I was about 10.
However, it did not have this creepy cover back then…
Oh dear, that is a little unsettling. I seem to remember the cover of the version I read as being a drawing of a boy standing at a window. This new one makes it seem rather seamy.
Yea the copy I had had a very sketchy near abstract drawing. I need to reread it and see if the new cover is as sensationalist as it feels. I remember WHY they might use that cover, but seems like that was a fairly minor part of the story.
This makes me want to read this book again and all my Judy Blume books. JB books had were such a huge part of mine and my friends’ lives when I was younger. I always thought it was the same for lots of people my age but when I posted about reading this book and my memories of reading JB books in my LJ and asked if the books had any impact on anyone else I expected to get lots of comments mirroring my own experience but I hardly got any. It made me think I was odd for liking the books so much.