Something Foolish, Something Gay
This was my first romance. I was thirteen and buying books with my allowance from Scholastic Book Club at school. I read this one til it was dogeared. The new copy I bought on line a couple years ago is in lots better shape! This is the book that gave me the idea that a girl should marry her high school sweetheart and live happily ever after. It's the book that hooked me on happily ever after romance novels. It's the book that led me to books as comfort food. It's the book that led me to read
This isn't a novel, so much as it is 10 short stories revolving around the relationship of high school sweethearts Laurie and Sammy in the late 1950s when it was written. Now full disclosure here, I did not grow up in this era, I grew up in the 1980s and 1990s, I read this book out of curiosity.I found the character of Laurie inconsistent, she was whatever the authors needed her to be for the moral of that particular tale. Sometimes an independent, young pre-feminist, other times lazy, or
Loved this book as a young teen. It is so clever. My sister and I still use comedic references from this book.
I read this book over and over as a teenager in the late sixties/early seventies. It got me through many a heartbreak. Any time I was sad, I would read this book and begin to smile and sometimes laugh out loud. Delightful, sweet, funny. It makes one wish that the teen years could be as innocent as they were in this book, which was written in 1955. It's one of my treasures.
I read this for nostalgia purposes. Read it when I was 13, and several other times in life since. My copy is worn and torn. So reminiscent of the early 1970s.
Glen Sire
Hardcover | Pages: 213 pages Rating: 4.28 | 47 Users | 12 Reviews
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This was my first romance. I was thirteen and buying books with my allowance from Scholastic Book Club at school. I read this one til it was dogeared. The new copy I bought on line a couple years ago is in lots better shape! This is the book that gave me the idea that a girl should marry her high school sweetheart and live happily ever after. It's the book that hooked me on happily ever after romance novels. It's the book that led me to books as comfort food. It's the book that led me to read "Little Women" again; this time with a hanky. And, it's really cute and Sammy Hastings is to die for. :)List Based On Books Something Foolish, Something Gay
Title | : | Something Foolish, Something Gay |
Author | : | Glen Sire |
Book Format | : | Hardcover |
Book Edition | : | Anniversary Edition |
Pages | : | Pages: 213 pages |
Published | : | (first published 1958) |
Categories | : | Young Adult. Fiction. Own |
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Ratings: 4.28 From 47 Users | 12 ReviewsRate Based On Books Something Foolish, Something Gay
This book was kicking around my house as a kid and I must have read it five or six times. Loved it.This was my first romance. I was thirteen and buying books with my allowance from Scholastic Book Club at school. I read this one til it was dogeared. The new copy I bought on line a couple years ago is in lots better shape! This is the book that gave me the idea that a girl should marry her high school sweetheart and live happily ever after. It's the book that hooked me on happily ever after romance novels. It's the book that led me to books as comfort food. It's the book that led me to read
This isn't a novel, so much as it is 10 short stories revolving around the relationship of high school sweethearts Laurie and Sammy in the late 1950s when it was written. Now full disclosure here, I did not grow up in this era, I grew up in the 1980s and 1990s, I read this book out of curiosity.I found the character of Laurie inconsistent, she was whatever the authors needed her to be for the moral of that particular tale. Sometimes an independent, young pre-feminist, other times lazy, or
Loved this book as a young teen. It is so clever. My sister and I still use comedic references from this book.
I read this book over and over as a teenager in the late sixties/early seventies. It got me through many a heartbreak. Any time I was sad, I would read this book and begin to smile and sometimes laugh out loud. Delightful, sweet, funny. It makes one wish that the teen years could be as innocent as they were in this book, which was written in 1955. It's one of my treasures.
I read this for nostalgia purposes. Read it when I was 13, and several other times in life since. My copy is worn and torn. So reminiscent of the early 1970s.
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