Anonymous wrote:My teen son got into my book bags twice.
Once he got Helen Hoang's "The Bride Test". Which is a pretty good story but it has a very gratuitous oral scene. I'd not really wanted my kid to know I could read straight-faced through that kind of scene. He asked me about it...and I just said the characters were good but certain scenes were a bit much.
Another time he read "Art of Racing in the Rain". Which I thought was just a heartwarming dog POV story. And it was - with a false pedophilic/SA accusation betwen in-laws subplot close to the end. Yikes.
Oh well. I sneaked worse, younger. In 6th grade, I read "The World According to Garp" which starts with a nurse SA'ing a dying WW2 soldier...precisely because my dad tried to keep it away from me. Read Judy Bloom's Forever at the library so I didn't have to check it out. Still can't forget what the male lead did with aftershave. Skimmed Clan of the Cave Bear at a church booksale, lol.
Tell your daughter what you want her to hear directly from you. The Internet is vast and full of literary smut.
OH MY GOD!! We owned a copy of The World According to Garp!! I was too young to read it, but my siblings (and friends-close-as-siblings) called me Garp as a teasing nickname. To this day, they all remember that book but I don't know if any of them actually read it! Thank you for taking me down memory lane.
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