Then Again, Maybe I Won't

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I initially review this book when I was around 10- years old. That very first time, I really pleased in it, yet I really did not understand a large amount of it (like right stuff concerning damp desires). Regarding a year later on, I reviewed it again, and also adjusted much past the previous time. I am presently 14- years old and also have actually read this unique around 5 scenarios, and also I prepare for recognizing it generally a lot more, paying little mind to whether I currently am most likely “exceedingly old” for it. I am a girl, nevertheless I have actually obtained as a lot out of this book as any one of Blume’s consisting of women personalities. Judy Blume – Then Again, Maybe I Won’t Audiobook Free Online. Fact be informed, I have more than likely adjusted even more; currently I understand individuals such a fantastic quantity of above anything I would certainly carry the off opportunity that I had actually never ever read thisbook It is exceptionally practical and also smartly intriguing and also I can see Tony in so a substantial variety of the individuals I understand! I obtained a lot more from this unique than from any kind of well-being course, and also pleased in it greater than any kind of T.V. show up. Whatever I can specify to conclude is, you absolutely need to review this book, no matter whether you are developed 9- 12 or otherwise! In favor of the book, many people want it to be read by the public because not many authors have written about these controversial issue and most people are unaware of them and how it affects the youth. Schools are trying to get access to her award-winning books where they once wanted these books to be banned. “Public school trustees voted 5 to 2 Monday night to return to library shelves three books by an award-winning children’s writer that had been banned on the ground of sexual references and strong language.” (NY times) The main reason an author writes something is because people don’t realize it’s important enough for the society to know or mainly because the topic is challenged. Sebenarnya saya telah mengenal nama Judy Blume sejak lama, melalui salah satu novel remajanya yang telah diterjemahkan ke dalam bahasa Indonesia yaitu Are You There, God? It's Me, Margaret. Namun, "mengenal" bukan berarti saya telah membeli/memiliki/membaca buku tersebut melainkan cuma membaca sekilas informasinya di suatu tempat, hehehe. Jadi, Then Again, Maybe I Won't adalah buku Judy Blume pertama yang saya baca. She achieved many things and also faced challenges because of the ideas conveyed in her books. She was awarded over ninety literary awards. “She was included among the Living Legends in the Writer category by the Library of Congress in 2000 for her distinguished work for cultural heritage. He has received three lifetime achievement awards.” (Famous Authors) With recognitions, she also had books that were criticized and are present in the banned books’ list.

The book is kind of like "Are You There God? It's me Margaret" for boys. Tony, the main character, is going through puberty and starts spying on the girl next door. He even asks for binoculars for Christmas so he can watch her. It's weird to read the book and see how it's no big deal that's he watching the girl next door undress. He even tells the psychologist he's seeing for anxiety about it and he doesn't even react! Today the kid would be in a treatment program for juvenille sex offenders but in the book it's no big deal. Saya menemukan buku ini karena sedang mencari novel dengan perspektif cowok usia 12 tahun (di samping judul-judul yang sudah tenar macam Diary of A Wimpy Kid dan Lupus ABG, alias yang rada serius). Saya pun mendapati bahwa penulisnya, Judy Blume, telah menulis novel-novel remaja dengan tema yang cukup berat, kalau bukan kontroversial atau tabu, sampai-sampai ada yang dilarang terbit lagi. Agaknya maksud beliau adalah menulis cerita remaja secara serealistis mungkin, meski jatuhnya kurang pantas bagi sebagian kalangan? Then Again follows this genre of youth fiction from that era. Tony, the protagonist, and his family (not a terribly dysfunctional or broken family, though with plenty of room for improvement) move from their working class neighborhood in Jersey City to an upper-class area of Long Island after his dad becomes recognized as a genius and has all the money the family could possibly want, forever. Tony befriends the boy next door, who looks perfect on the surface but is actually a real jerk with the beginnings of some serious problems. Tony has his own problems, figuring out how to deal with his family and with his own adolescent development.

I read this for a real-world book club; it took about two hours to breeze through. Strangely, it was published in 1971 when I would have been twelve years old, just like the boy in the story, but I never heard of it then and was only vaguely aware of the author's name until now. Eleven-year-old Tony Miglione likes living with his family in Jersey City. He has hard-working parents, a brother who teaches junior high and a sister-in-law with a baby on the way. (His oldest brother died in Vietnam before the story starts.) Grandma, mute after cancer of the larynx, joyfully cooks for the family. Grandma– Carmella's mother, who cannot speak after having her larynx removed due to cancer. She loves to cook, but was no longer permitted to do so after hiring their housekeeper, so she spends every day in her bedroom watching TV, depressed. Abhorrent Admirer: Tony's skinny and childish looking classmate, Kathryn "Corky" Thomas, has a crush on him and isn't at all shy about letting him know. Initially he wishes she would just leave him alone, but by the end of the novel he decides she's not so annoying after all and even begins to dream about her. Another theme touched upon is Tony regaining respect for the working class life his parents left behind. For example, Tony and his friends are drinking milkshakes at a malt shop when Joel thinks it is cute to hide the tip inside a partially unconsumed milkshake glass, causing the waitress to make a scene and remark that "your crummy coins buys me a loaf of bread; ever stop and think of that". This causes Tony to reflect on the differences between where he was raised and where he is now.

Then Again, Maybe I Won't is actually one of the few Judy Blume novels from the 1970s that I did not read as a teenager (in the early 1980s). Yes, I did in fact remember signing Then Again, Maybe I Won't out of our school library, but then returned it mostly unread because at that time of my life (from about 1980 to 1984) I was just not all that interested in reading a novel for pleasure (and in fact any novel) that did not have a teenaged girl but instead a teenaged boy as a main protagonist (as I was personally at that time finding the boys in my class annoyingly immature and boring and could therefore also not imagine finding Then Again, Maybe I Won't either all that relatable or readable, since Tony Miglione, the main protagonist, indeed is a thirteen year old teenaged boy).

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Books give the readers useful information about the world and is capable to provide knowledge and understandings of topics that barely get talked about. Judy Blume is one of the authors that felt like her book would give the society a reason to change and increase their awareness to such topics. Blume’s books talked about topics that a mother would never talk about to their children. The topics included menstruation, masturbation, and wet dreams, among others. Blume wanted the readers to understand every little thing a person goes through after entering the real world.

Theft: Joel repeatedly steals from stores and the school cafeteria. It bothers Tony immensely, but he’s afraid to say anything. I know I keep gushing about Judy Blume but once again she proves to be one of the best young adult novelists ever. I loved that this story--told from the POV of the male lead Tony--is just a strong a reflection of the juinior high years as "Are There God---It's Me Margaret."

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Bizarre Taste in Food: Tony Miglione certainly thinks that his new friend Joel has bizarre taste in food; as he says, "He likes some strange sandwiches." His favorite is salami, tomato and mayonnaise, and his second favorite is onion slices on buttered whole wheat bread.