Forever - Judy Blume Reviews

Forever is considered to most famous and known book of Judy Blume and I guess also the book which caused the most controversy and debate. It was published in 1975 and it is currently in the list of the 100 books banned by the American Library Association. The plot is relatively simple. Katherine is in high school an dis 17 ...  Read the complete review

First published in 1975, Forever has become one of the most well known books by teen author Judy Blume, due to the ongoing controversy surrounding it. Well known as an author who tackles teen 'issues' in her books, Blume here approaches the issues surrounding teen sex with frank openness and honesty. Even now, when sex has become a common theme of ...  Read the complete review

I came across this book by chance when i was looking on amazon. I bought it and it arrived the next day. I read this book in one night and was up until the early hours of the morning just to finish it. I couldnt put it down. The romance between Katherine and Michael is intense and makes you think alot about it. Nothing does last ...  Read the complete review

I'm 14 and I read this book in one sitting. I picked it up at the book store and it looked pretty interesting. I sat on my couch and could not put it down. Some people think that a book like this is the "okay" to have sex as a teen. I think the complete opposite. This book made me realize that there is so much more than just the physical ...  Read the complete review

When I was 14, and going to a convent school in the North of England, this book was whispered about constantly through out the school. It was my first introduction to sex and relationships, apart from the over-sanitised sex education books we were presented with once a week, full of line drawings of mothers, babies, and the obligitory ...  Read the complete review

"You're too young to read a book like that!" I must have been about 11 or 12 when my Aunt saw "Forever" by Judy Blume on my bedside table and she said those words, giving me a disapproving look. But don't children always want to read/do/watch what is considered by adults to be "too old" for them? I have an ...  Read the complete review

Growing up in the American school system, Judy Blume was one of those authors that the school librarian was never totally sure how to handle. All the girls loved her books and we waited with baited breath for a new one to be published. We were reading without having to be pushed and the librarian loved that. However, she also knew that part of ...  Read the complete review

Thinking about it, I don’t think there was a single member of my form who had not read this book by Lower 4 (our name for Year 8, 2nd year senior school). There were a few copies which would circulate among us and which, by the end of the year, had become very worn. The copy that belonged to me even had “important” bits ...  Read the complete review

This book was banned at my school. It was banned for its ‘explicit sex scenes’, and its ‘adult content’. Of course banning it meant that all us girlies had to get hold of a copy. And it's probably just as well we did . . . . . The story is simple. An all-American 17-year old girl meets an all-American 17- year ...  Read the complete review