Jumping off swings by jo knowles5/20/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() She’s an easy lay, so an ideal person to lose your virginity to. Josh, though, has been put up to doing it with Ellie by 2 of his ‘friends’. ![]() One night at a party (and that’s how the book opens) she hooks up with virgin Josh hoping this time the encounter will lead to something more. At the age of 16 she’s had many sexual partners, but they have always left her feeling empty afterwards. ![]() However, I feel that her own novel Jumping Off Swings – not her debut, by the way – lacks in exactly that particular department: the words are really not that powerful when that’s exactly what you want from a book that deals with an issue as sensitive and troubling as teenage pregnancy.Īlthough all Ellie has ever wanted is to feel loved, at her high school she’s considered as ‘easy’, basically a slut. There’s more than a thing to say about the power of words, of course, and on this account the cat wholeheartedly agrees with Jo Knowles. She then goes on to say how Robert Cormier was kind enough to send her a letter back after she sent him her manuscript telling her she was “a talented” writer. There is something about the raw truth of that book that showed how powerful words can be. She mentions that it was first and foremost Robert Cormier’s The Chocolate War that turned her into “an avid reader, and eventually a writer. On her website Jo Knowles writes about how she became a writer. ![]()
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