From: carolgrannick at comcast.net <carolgrannick>
Date: Sat, 04 Oct 2008 12:14:07 +0000

I have to "second" Elsa's comment...I came to Judy Blume only fifteen years ago, as I discovered the new bounties of children's literature that clarified a new direction for my own lifelong writing habits...And, like many of my favorites, I re-read them periodically. BLUBBER is priceless to me for a number of reasons...But, unlike Elsa, after listening to comments from my younger writing partners, I picked up FOREVER, which I'd never read. I sure wish I'd had it when I needed it...instead of searching out "the pages" in Mary McCarthy's THE GROUP...

Carol Grannick

-------------- Original message -------------- From: "Elsa Marston" <elsa.marston at gmail.com>

> These revelations about the effect,legacy, and persona of Judy Blume are
> fascinating. I'm an older generation than most of the people who have
> written thus far, so I did not have the experience of growing up with Judy
> Blume. I still don't know if I'm brave enough to read FOREVER. But when,
> well into adulthood, I read ARE YOU THERE, GOD...., I nearly wept for
> wishing I'd had that book when I went through that time in my life--which in
> those days, at least for me, was sheer misery.
>
> Elsa Marston
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