Hello Groin eBook Beth Goobie
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When Dylan Kowolski agrees to create a display for her high school library, she has no idea of the trouble it's going to cause for the school principal, her family, her boyfriend Cam and his jock friends, and her best friend Jocelyn. And for Dylan herself. If only her English class had been studying a normal, run-of-the-mill, mundane book like Lord of the Flies instead of Foxfire things wouldn't have gotten so twisted. Then the world wouldn't have gone into such a massive funk. And then Dylan wouldn't have had to face her deepest fear and the way she was letting it run her life.
Hello Groin eBook Beth Goobie
A nice story chronicling the fear of self discovery. There weren't any explicit sex scenes, but as is common with this genre (young adult fiction) the emotions were real, raw and familiar. What I don't like about stories of adult lesbians is that one or both of them is super rich, successful, beautiful and afraid of commitment. I'm getting tired of the formula. Despite being a middle aged woman, I like the truth and realism of young adult coming out stories - lesbian, of course.Product details
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Hello Groin eBook Beth Goobie Reviews
I was amazed at how well Goobie detailed the feelings of coming out to yourself as a woman who loves women. Even though I'm an adult, Goobie's descriptions were so poignant, real, and honest that they brought back my feelings to me in a huge rush. She dealt with the issues brought up by figuring out you don't belong at a time when belonging can feel like everything--and she did it with honesty, wit, and brilliantly crafted writing. I'm very impressed with this book--it's not only a fantastic way for anyone to understand how it feels to come to terms with a sexuality that isn't considered the "norm"--but it's also a wonderful novel about the freedom and happiness that come with walking away from your fear and into your truth. A must read for all ages.
The voice just doesn't feel right, here. I've read all the lesbian Y/A stuff I've been able to locate over the last few decades, and this book is troubling and frankly rather peculiar most of all for its distaste concerning female genitals. Every single description concludes on an Ew, Gross! note. What's up with that? Having found a book that describes a teenage girl actually doing what all teenage girls, in fact, do, when alone, in private... you'd think there'd be little less disgust associated with the act. It doesn't make sense. What's this *about*, this whole squick factor? We never find out.
Similarly, Dylan's dilemma here feels external & oddly arbitrary she's scared of coming out because... why? At first we get a whole lot of blahblah about how it's Wrong--despite the fact that she goes on at great length to point out that intellectually, she knows it is Natural and Right. So where does the feeling of wrongness come from, that she has? Wrongness about body parts, about orientation? It's the most important question the book raises, but never answers--or even gets near.
The ostensible reason for Dylan's dilemma is she doesn't want to lose her parents' approval and love. Totally understandable... except her parents barely figure until the very end--and they are completely supportive and tolerant. The real reason Dylan's popular and like it, likes the shallow, likes or at least goes along with the meanness, and spends a great deal of time fretting about the school's "phone-tree". This is not a particularly nice character, & the more I read... the less I cared for her. She's a liar, she's a hypocrite, she accommodates the Popular Girls at almost every turn, she's mean just for the sake of being mean, to strays and stragglers. This isn't because she's scared of coming out it's because she's a slightly brighter than average kid who's a beatch. It's *supposed* to seem like this is all about peer pressure shrug. I just didn't buy it. Plenty of kids suffer at the hands of their peers and aren't totally nasty.
If I'm reading a book about any character, gay or not, I want to first care, at least a bit, about this character. I didn't. I didn't like this kid *and* she didn't translate as a kid she felt like a kid written by an adult. Dylan's BFF & love-interest, Jocelyn, is wonderfully well-portrayed, but of course she remains mysterious and secondary to Dylan's self-absorbed musings, which carry us through the majority of the book. Dylan's boyfriend is a saint. Her 5-year-old sister is also not credible in any way. She's verbally precocious beyond the call of duty. The language shifts between too pedestrian (teenage language) and excessively poetic. The balance is off, somehow. The pieces are all here, but they don't make a whole that's entirely credible.
Bottom line at about the halfway mark I finished this out of some sense of sheer compulsiveness, rather than pleasure. It's competently written. I suspect a lot of these weaknessness might have been addressed with another rewrite. It means well the author is certainly well-intentioned. But it was not much fun to read. (The extra half-star is for good intent.)
The title will make you laugh, the story will provoke you to think.
Dylan lives the good life great family, amazing boyfriend, and a best friend she can rely on. That is until she confronts her real identity, when she admits to herself that she prefers girls rather than boys. Beth Goobie, in a stellar effort, portrays the life of a lesbian teenager too afraid of the repercussions upon her life if and when she comes out to her friends and family.
Dylan doesn't want to make her life any more difficult but her best friend, Jocelyn, has become presently absent in her life; she isn't able to give her boyfriend what he wants, no matter how hard she tells herself she can do it; and things only get more complicated when Dylan volunteers to design the new book display for the school library.
HELLO, GROIN, along with a voicing out of the wrongness of such a social taboo as being [...], is a fight for freedom from censorship. The display Dylan creates says something important, both to her and to certain others, whether they were contributors of ideas or the understanding kind. But when the school principal decides to censor parts of the display, rumors begin to spread about Dylan, and she begins to let her secret take control of her life, in a negative way.
Goobie does a fantastic job in portraying a character that is very much believable in her thoughts and actions. She speaks out against censorship and how hard it is on a person who, along with the regular angst and struggles of being a teenager, must also now ask herself who she is and whether or not self-sacrifice for the people around her is more important than making herself feel human and allowing herself to be, simply, herself.
HELLO, GROIN is a thought-provoking novel that asks questions that are important to face in this day and age of social faux pas and suggests a few select answers which readers should certainly take upon themselves to consider wholeheartedly. HELLO, GROIN is well told story by a great novelist.
Reviewed by Long Nguyen
Well written with a clear depiction of the anguish in sharing teen sexual discovery.
Intelligent YA book that deals with complicated issues regarding shame and sexuality from a rather realistic and sweet perspective. The relationship between the two friends develops in interesting ways as well and is very warm and heartfelt by the end.
A nice story chronicling the fear of self discovery. There weren't any explicit sex scenes, but as is common with this genre (young adult fiction) the emotions were real, raw and familiar. What I don't like about stories of adult lesbians is that one or both of them is super rich, successful, beautiful and afraid of commitment. I'm getting tired of the formula. Despite being a middle aged woman, I like the truth and realism of young adult coming out stories - lesbian, of course.
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