Crush Jane Pillow Futcher Marny Hall PhD 9780985536824 Books
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I first read this book back in junior high, early '80s. My mother picked it up while she was out; I'm still sure to this day that she had NO idea what the content was, despite the cover showing two girls and the title "Crush".Let me clarify: I'm currently 44 years old. I live in Kansas City and I am straight. But none of that matters because This.Is. A. Fantastic. Book. It was amazing back then and still great now. I'm so excited that it's available for my Kindle, but I have to admit I miss the original book I have (I still haven't completely gotten over holding a book and seeing the original publisher font lol).
But I got off topic. This book should be read by every teenage girl. Tolerance and acceptance notwithstanding, the history that Jane Futcher writes about is nearly as fascinating as her story. I love everything about the setting, her descriptions, and how she writes about Jinxy meeting her friends in town at the Rexall for hamburgers or going into the city on the train to visit art schools. Also, rereading this makes me realize how much better off our society is today (Same Sex marriage is recognized in all 50 states), but that there is still a long row to hoe for those who identify as LGBTQ.
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Tags : Crush [Jane Pillow Futcher, Marny Hall Ph.D.] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. With a new foreword by Dr. Marny Hall, author of The Lavender Couch </i>and the Lesbian Love Companion.</i><div> ***</i><div></div><div>It wasn't easy fitting in at an exclusive girls' boarding school like Huntington Hill. But in her senior year,Jane Pillow Futcher, Marny Hall Ph.D.,Crush,Women Gone Wild Press,0985536829,FICTION LGBT Gay,Fiction - General,Fiction Gay,Gay,Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
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Crush Jane Pillow Futcher Marny Hall PhD 9780985536824 Books Reviews
I immensely enjoyed the author's descriptive style. It's a story about teenage love, and there's some truth for everyone. Although I'm not gay, I can see myself in Jinx at that vulnerable age. The author tells the story with humor, but it can also cut like a knife; I could not put it down.
I cannot say enough good things about this book. I was looking for a good glbt teen type novel, and I found this one at a used book store in my area. I finally got a chance to read it, and I had the hardest time putting it down. What Jinx felt, I felt too. Like I was here and I was the one being torn down my Lexie and being condmned by the Nicky. It felt real like what Jinx was going through was happening to me too, it was kind of scary. Whenever Lexie hurt Jinx or took advantage of her or played with her emotions like she did, I wanted to go up to Lexie and smack her and yell at her and tell her what a terrible, inhumane person she was. Lexie, on some level, reminds me of a girl I know (accept this girl is bi and open about it). Just the way she used Jinx and played with her like that remdinds me of this girl. I just wonder how someone like Lexie could have the audacity to be cruel to someone who loves her so much??? I guess this is why they book is so good, it's like a slice of real life. I loved this book immensely.
The book was billed sort of as a book for lesbian teen girls... or rather I got that impression. Standard paperback size. It was entertaining to read. The emotional manipulation that totally screwed the main character over was wow. Yeah. Wow. In man, girls/women can be mean and destructive to their own kind. Not that I don't know this but yeah. Wow. Still a decent read. I probably won't reread it. Teen angst of the sort that goes on feels a bit beyond me but still a good read.
I've read a lot of GLBT young adult fiction. I wonder why it is that all the lesbian ones are in first person and told from the butchier girl's perspective? Maybe it's some kind of unwritten rule. Right next to the one that says one of the girls should have a funky name, like Battle or Holland. The main protagonist here is named Jinx, and the action takes place at a boarding school for girls in about 1964. An aspiring artist, Jinx becomes infatuated with an unstable girl at her school named Lexie. Jinx is very doormatish, and lets her actions be dictated by Lexie, to the point that she's doing some incredibly stupid things. When she finally gets a backbone and tries to put a stop to it, Lexie does not react well.
The story is interesting, but I frequently wanted to smack Jinx for lusting such a screwed up girl and putting up with her crap. There's at least some hope that she's going to start sticking up for herself more in the future, but I can't budge the feeling that, if this book had continued into Jinx's later life, we'd find that she'd done what was expected of a girl in that time period, and given up her artistic dreams to find herself a nice husband.
This book started off nicely, and I think the author had a great idea, what with the all-girls boarding school and all. However, the ending left much to be desired. I couldn't help feeling a bit cheated because the ending just left the reader hanging. I didn't like the way the story cut off, with the reader still wondering what would happen to the characters. Or maybe I'm just an idealist, disliking everything that doesn't come equipped with a nice, happy ending.
No one minded Lexie sleeping around with her cousin and other men, but because they believed Jinx was a lesbian, the school staff went against her. This school sounds eerily like one I once went to. I couldn't believe the way the staff treated Jinx, like she was a leper.
This book is very well-written and sad. There is no happily-ever-after, which makes the book realistic. The private school students in this book are emotionally confused, and the attitudes surrounding them about what is normal makes the reader see why there are people in such pain.
I recommend this book highly. If you are disturbed by sexual situations between members of the same or opposite sex, then don't read it. Sex is not presented pornographically, and the portrayal about teens and crushes is very realistic.
The young ladies of Huntington Hill are simply classic. Jinx, Lexie and the rest of the Huntington crew are the epitome of high school girls feeling their way to their own sexuality. Jane Futcher does an incredible job in making these characters not only come to life, but remind yourself how your teenage years weren't exactly the "best times of your life." The main character Jinx, an ant like character, seems harmless from the beginning until the end of the novel, but one thing is for sure she knows how to carry more than just her weight. She does what almost every young lesbian had to do at the beginning of their outness...take care of themselves. She embraces the few women who blink in and out of her life with such speciality that you begin to almost feel what and how she's feeling it.
I first read this book back in junior high, early '80s. My mother picked it up while she was out; I'm still sure to this day that she had NO idea what the content was, despite the cover showing two girls and the title "Crush".
Let me clarify I'm currently 44 years old. I live in Kansas City and I am straight. But none of that matters because This.Is. A. Fantastic. Book. It was amazing back then and still great now. I'm so excited that it's available for my , but I have to admit I miss the original book I have (I still haven't completely gotten over holding a book and seeing the original publisher font lol).
But I got off topic. This book should be read by every teenage girl. Tolerance and acceptance notwithstanding, the history that Jane Futcher writes about is nearly as fascinating as her story. I love everything about the setting, her descriptions, and how she writes about Jinxy meeting her friends in town at the Rexall for hamburgers or going into the city on the train to visit art schools. Also, rereading this makes me realize how much better off our society is today (Same Sex marriage is recognized in all 50 states), but that there is still a long row to hoe for those who identify as LGBTQ.
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