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Summary: Please Read Jessica L.
Review: 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.
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Summary: Don't Think Twice to Read!!!!
Review: I think Ruth Pennebaker, the author of Don't Think Twice, did a good job portraying a pregnant teenager's experience. She even enphasized 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 pregnant after meeting who she was the love of her life. Her family couldn't bare the embarrassment of having a young pregnant daughter so they sent her away to an unwed mother's home. The setting of the book mostly took place in Texas at the home Anne was sent to. She spent most of her pregnancy there till the time she gave birth. Her life changed a lot at the home. Her horomones 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 their 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 rings to pose as married women and have people stare at them as if they were aliens, because they have to travel in a group. Throughout the book Annehas to make the 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 foward to.
In the book Anne lashes out on people when she's in her moods. It's one of those stories where you laugh out loud 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.
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Summary: Hey you! Buy this book!
Review: Okay, okay, okay. I'm not an editor. I don't know the author. All I know is what I like. And I either like it or I don't. Well, as soon as I picked up this book, I couldn't put it down. It was just so... it was sad, yeah and funny and heart-breaking, so so real. Okay, the main character Anne, lived in like 1967 but she reminded me so much of myself... without the pregnant part. It was honest and believable. Very sad, but I liked it. And I didn't even realize it would be so hard to give up a baby. So, read it
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Summary: a little less than "eh"
Review: Plah, I almost slapped the person that recommend this book to me. The whole story seemed like a good idea... but I guess it just went wrong. This was one of the most boring books I've ever read. Seriously. The characters were weak, and the story was weak... and I really don't think its worth it. I'm a dummy and I should have stopped reading the book at page 3 because it wasn't going anywhere, but I convinced myself that if I kept reading, the book would get better. wrong! the ending was worse than the beginning.
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Summary: a little less than "eh"
Review: Plah, I almost slapped the person that recommend this book to me. The whole story seemed like a good idea... but I guess it just went wrong. This was one of the most boring books I've ever read. Seriously. The characters were weak, and the story was weak... and I really don't think its worth it. I'm a dummy and I should have stopped reading the book at page 3 because it wasn't going anywhere, but I convinced myself that if I kept reading, the book would get better. wrong! the ending was worse than the beginning.
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Summary: Moving and Heartbreaking
Review: Sarcastic, teenage and pregnant Anne renders an honest, touching and tear-jerking portrayal of the brutal realities of teenage relashionships and pregnancy. Anne, the unrequited lover of Jake, her boyfriend who impregnates and then breaks up with her, is shunned from her family and sent to a home for pregnant teenagers. Bitter and depressed, she narrates sarcastically and honestly, profoundly capturing human emotion and pain. Unwillignly, she becomes attached to her companions at the pregnant home, and together they struggle through their deeply painful issues. By the end of the novel, Anne is not healed and perfect, but she has made a remarkable journey of self awareness that is ironically relatable. I am an avid reader who devours on average 5 books a week. That in mind, now take into consideration this was truly one of the best books I have ever read. It is entertaining, elegantly crafted, has funny, relatable characters, a sense of realism... and above all, Anne's strong voice conveys an amazing story of self awareness and overcoming hardships.
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Summary: Don't Think Twice
Review: This book wan't bad. It was very real. It showed the view of what a pregnant teenage girl goes through. It also shows how a home for these girl's can help. they go through all kinds of things. The main charter of the story,Anne doesn't want to get along with anybody and the other girls try to be her friend, but she just wants to be by herself. She just wants to be independent, since she's so used to it. her family doesn't support her at all during her whole pregnancy. They write her once in a while, but nothing is really said about where she is and why she's there. They tell how hard it is to have a baby and give it upfor adoption and try and move on with their lives as if it had never happened.
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Summary: Girl Interrupted, Maternity style
Review: 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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Summary: Truthful
Review: This book was good for many reasons, one of them being it didn't overlook pregnancy. It showed that not all girls are lucky enough to keep their baby. Anne didn't take crap from anyone and knew people's personalities before she met them. She already knew who she was when she went to the home and she didn't think that the father of her baby was the most important thing in the world. She didn't enjoy the sex and she didn't even know why she was having sex, she didn't love her boyfriend and he sure as hell only wanted the sex and he ended up with a baby he doesn't even know about. When I read about Anne's sister Penny I was like "she should have been where Anne was."I guess now Penny knows what happens when she fools around with guys. Anne shows it's not a good idea to get pregnant and that anyone could because she was really smart and made one bad decision that changed her life forever.
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Summary: Hilarious
Review: This book was just hilarious. I loved it. Anne's sacasm had me in stitches.
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