Comments on GreenBeanTeenQueen: Are You There God, It's Me Margaret

aww man =) i loved ur review! totally awesome! I t...

2009-10-09T10:02:43.492-05:00

aww man =) i loved ur review! totally awesome! I think i read it while growing up but i do have to pick it up again! Thanks for sharing!

I was in middle school in the late 70s and this bo...

2009-10-01T22:27:38.626-05:00

I was in middle school in the late 70s and this book was such a BIG deal!! My friends and I all read it and loved it but it was controversial at the time. Some parents wouldn't let their kids read it so they had to sneak it. It seems pretty tame by today's standards but it was so personal that some parents wouldn't allow it. I remember the "We must increase out bust" line too!This was a great book and it answered a lot of questions at the time. I have always loved all Judy Blume books. So glad to hear it's still going strong.

Bookworm shouldn't feel embarrassed; I haven't rea...

2009-09-27T14:32:03.485-05:00

Bookworm shouldn't feel embarrassed; I haven't read any Judy Blume books, either, even though I was a 6th-grader in the late 1970s. My tween daughters both read this book last year, though, and they enjoyed it. They didn't have to ask me to explain anything, so the updating must have done the trick.

I checked out this book from the school library SO...

2009-09-23T12:07:40.527-05:00

I checked out this book from the school library SO many times! My small town school library barely had anything, so I did a lot of re-reading. I also pictured Margaret in the 70s, mostly because the library's book still had the 70s cover! And it was around 1988. The story is timeless, though. I almost cried when I saw Judy Blume in person at ALA a few years ago. Her books meant a lot to me. Just As Long As We're Together is a favorite too. Great review, Sarah!

I remember this book particularly because my siste...

2009-09-21T22:05:50.463-05:00

I remember this book particularly because my sister recommended it to me. Usually the stream went the other way: I was older, and I gave HER books to read. Which resulted more than a few times in her deciding not to read them, just because I'd liked them. :-) But with this one, my younger sister read it first and nagged me until I read it too. Afterward, we talked about a lot of the same things Margaret had thought about or talked about...it was great for teaching us that we COULD mention those sensitive growing up issues (my parents didn't talk about any of that).
And speaking of kids developing at different times...my mom just pulled out a photo of my sister and I at a birthday party...I was maybe 10 or 11, my sister a year younger...and we were GIANTS. Like, a foot taller than everyone else! Hilarious to look at that now and realize how different we were...and didn't notice it at the time so much.
Great review! As you can see, it made me all nostalgic. I should give this one a re-read. Thanks!

When I was growing up this was one of my favorite ...

2009-09-21T16:16:00.312-05:00

When I was growing up this was one of my favorite books. Your review has now made me want to go unearth it and re-read it.

This sounds like a cute read! I have an award for...

2009-09-21T15:57:53.880-05:00

This sounds like a cute read!

I have an award for you! I haven't figured out how to do proper links in comments, so the link is below.

http://bookwormnation.blogspot.com/2009/09/awards.html

I'm a bit embarrassed to say that I haven't read A...

2009-09-21T12:56:33.143-05:00

I'm a bit embarrassed to say that I haven't read ANY of Judy Blume's books, ever. We can add Twilight to that list, too...(:

Oh my...I so remember reading this book. It was a...

2009-09-21T12:00:04.389-05:00

Oh my...I so remember reading this book. It was all the roar, parents not wanting kids to read it and what not. I rather liked the book. The line I remember always is...
"We must, We must, we must increase our busts!"
Yes indeed, that line completely stands out to me even to this day - some odd 25+ years.

This was one of my favorite books when I was growi...

2009-09-21T11:49:00.070-05:00

This was one of my favorite books when I was growing up. The thing I still remember was the belt that Margaret got to prepare for her period which was outdated when I read it in about 1985ish so I had to ask my mom what that meant. I'm sure that is one of the things that was updated in the 2001 version.