Journal Entry 1 by guinaveve from Mason, Ohio USA on Friday, July 01, 2005

I bought this for the "hard to wild release" bookbox. I haven't read it yet but will before I send it out. 

Journal Entry 2 by guinaveve from Mason, Ohio USA on Monday, August 08, 2005

I was so disappointed with this book. First off, the author/narrator's desicion to remain a virgin is obviously a personal one and whatever reasoning she has for it is her business. BUT if she is going to write a book about it, people are going to have an opinion on it. Most of the things that I found wrong with it, she mentioned that people in her personal life pointed out to her too. So she mentions these things, but I don't feel like she really addresses them.
First off, she decided to stay a virgin, but it is only a technicality. She has experienced almost every other form of sexual contact with numberous men, some she barely knew. This seems silly to me. How do you feel like you are saving yourself for someone, to have a special connection with, when you have shared so much with others already? Just because you haven't let someone fit peg A into slot B, doesn't really mean you have "saved yourself" or not "connected."
Also she is very self righteous throughout the book. She says that another guy she knew was self righteous about his virginity, but she didn't feel as though she was, although she has been accused of it.
The worst part of this book though was that it was basically little more than an almost chronological list of all the guys she has dated or fooled around with and why she was grateful she didn't have actual sex with each one. It got so boring after a while. I swear the whole book felt like this-
"I met so and so here, we did XY and Z in bed, and we broke up because he was flawed in X manner. I am glad I didn't make the decision to have sex with him." BORING
She says she realizes that when she eventually has sex, she doesn't have elevated expectations for it. Everything else throughout the book does not indicate that, and I think it is going to be a let-down for her, because she has come so close to doing "it" already. The big thing she feels like she has saved herself for won't be enough. It will probably also cause relationship problems because she will feel as though she has more invested in "the one" -the guy she finally does it with. And it sounds like she will resent anyone who isn't a virgin himself. That is going to be hard to come by at the age she is at.
I am not advocating that people shouldn't wait for marriage if that is what they want, I am just thinking that in this instance, because the way she has gone about it, it will do more harm than good. So while it is her business, that is my 2 cents on it, since she put it out there in a book where people are obligated to think about what she says if they are going to bother reading it. 

Journal Entry 3 by guinaveve at Fellow BookCrosser in Postal release, Postal Release -- Controlled Releases on Friday, August 12, 2005

Released 6 yrs ago (8/12/2005 UTC) at Fellow BookCrosser in Postal release, Postal Release -- Controlled Releases

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I am including this in my "hard to wild release" bookbox. 

Journal Entry 4 by your-book-fairy from South Orange, New Jersey USA on Saturday, August 20, 2005

Hahahaha. I pulled this from the bookbox and got the box all sealed up again before I actually came and read your review of the book. I guess I'll give this a chance, although it sounds to me like everything that annoyed you is going to annoy me, too. 

Journal Entry 5 by your-book-fairy from South Orange, New Jersey USA on Saturday, October 29, 2005

I didn't have to get too far in this book before I decided I agreed with all of the reasons why this author was somewhat annoying. I decided I didn't have time to learn to dislike her as much as you did, so I cut this short and gave up on the book (which is rare for me). But I did score points in my Human Sexuality class for mentioning it, so thanks for that.

I'm putting this in an envelope to mail to Antof9, who will include it in an m-bag bound for the New Zealand convention in 2006. 

Journal Entry 6 by Antof9 from Lakewood, Colorado USA on Tuesday, November 08, 2005

Journal Entry 7 by NZ-2006-Con from Dunedin, Otago New Zealand on Monday, January 23, 2006