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Title: Don't Think Twice by Ruth Pennebaker ISBN: 0-8050-6729-9 Publisher: Henry Holt & Company Pub. Date: May, 2001 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $6.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.53 (19 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: The cover doesn't do justice
Comment: I just havta say, the new cover for the book doesn't look very appealing and I think the cover that was on the edition I read was much better but that's besides the point.
This book was WONDERFUL. There is no judgement and it is full of honest truths. Anne at first appears to be unlikeable but once deep into the book, you feel for her very much. The different situations that the other pregnant girls went through were also very well described and written. Considering this is Ruth Pennebaker's debut novel, I am much in awe of her writing talent and look forward to reading her other novels.
Even though you've probably read other synopsises of the story, my version is: An unwed pregnant teenager is pregnant in a time when she shouldn't be: the late 60s. Abortion is still illegal and her family is in no way accepting of her predicment. She is sent to a home where girls of the same age and in the same situation are sent. The book takes us through the pregnancy months and we watch Anne's situation change and her own self grow and change.
This book is NOT sterotypical and I urge you to read it!
Rating: 5
Summary: Please Read Jessica L.
Comment: I think Ruth Pennebaker, the author of Don't Think Twice, did a good job portraying a pregnant teenager's experience. She emphasized how people reacted to something like that from back in the sixties, which is when the story took place. It was a great book. Anne is a seventeen-year-old teenager who got pregnant after meeting who she thought was the love of her life. Her family couldn't bare the embarrassment of having a young pregnant daughter so they sent her to an unwed mother's home. The setting of the book mostly took place in Texas at this home Anne was in. She spent most of her pregnancy there till the time she gave birth. Her life changed a lot at the home. Her hormones were raging and she had a different out look on everything. She really had time to evaluate herself and the people around her. Anne spent most of her time around the girls in the home. She learns about experiences. While reading the book you see Anne and the girls learn what it's like to be out casts. They have to wear fake wedding ring to pose as married women and have people stare at them as if they were aliens. Throughout the book Anne has to make a decision of whether or not to give up her baby for adoption. If you think about it giving up something that spent nine months in you is hard, so the ending is definitely something to look forward to.
It's funny to read how Anne lashes out on people when she's in her moods. It's one of those stories where you laugh out loud to yourself when she pokes fun at her airhead sister, but you want to cry when one of the girls tells her story about how she was raped. It is a book filled with many emotions and it has a good moral as well. I would recommend it to everyone.
Rating: 5
Summary: Girl Interrupted, Maternity style
Comment: This book was excellent. I laughed out loud several times. It took me right back to 1967, what it must have been like to be a young pregnant girl back then, when everyone was so intolerant. The characters were interesting. Anne was hilarious. The end was very touching and moving. The only thing that made me nervous was when they all got drunk, but then I realized no one back then knew that alcohol will hurt an unborn baby.
This book would be a really great movie.
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Title: Detour for Emmy by Marilyn Reynolds ISBN: 0930934768 Publisher: Morning Glory Press (CA) Pub. Date: 01 July, 1993 List Price(USD): $8.95 |
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Title: Hanging on to Max by Margaret Bechard ISBN: 0689862687 Publisher: Simon Pulse Pub. Date: 01 December, 2003 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: What Kind of Love? The Diary of a Pregnant Teenager by Sheila Cole ISBN: 0380725754 Publisher: HarperTrophy Pub. Date: 01 May, 1996 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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Title: The Earth, My Butt, and Other Big Round Things by Carolyn Mackler ISBN: 0763619582 Publisher: Candlewick Press (MA) Pub. Date: 01 August, 2003 List Price(USD): $15.99 |
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Title: Telling (True-To-Life Series from Hamilton High) by Marilyn Reynolds, Morning Glory Press, Independent Pub Group Morning Glory Pr ISBN: 188535603X Publisher: Morning Glory Press (CA) Pub. Date: 01 June, 1996 List Price(USD): $8.95 |
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