As margaretmovie hits theaters, JudyBlume is on top of the world (and her Key West bookstore)
KEY WEST, Fla. -- At Books & Books, the nonprofit store Judy Blume and her husband have run for the past seven years, you will find her own work in various sections: from general fiction, among the other"B"-named authors, to a shelf dedicated exclusively to her -- a name unto herself.
The opposite has been true, even though Blume doesn't come in every day. An email recently sent to the store reads:"Hello there, I would love to know if Judy will be at the store between Thursday and Sunday. I would love to meet this brilliant mind from my childhood, and have a book signed by her. Thanks so much."
Blume has not written a full-length book since"In the Unlikely Event," published in 2015. But she is never far from her 12-year-old self, the self of"Are You There God?" and other books, the age when she was"on the brink," as she calls it, looking ahead to a life that has been her happiest and most surprising creation.
"I remember things. I have a really good memory. And I wanted to be honest about sixth grade," she says."It was a year of obsession with bodily development. I wanted to be normal. I was a late developer, a tiny kid, and I just wanted to be like everybody else." Abby Ryder Fortson, left, and Rachel McAdams, cast members in"Are You There God? It's Me Margaret," pose with Judy Blume, author of the 1970 novel upon which the film is based, at the premiere of the film April 15 in Los Angeles. - Associated Press "He said, 'I can't have girls in our school reading about this.' And I'm like, 'Do you know how many girls in the fifth and sixth grade have already had their periods?'" Blume says.
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