![]() ![]() They have to come of their own accord.īut Melvin Burgess didn't write Doing It for me. HERE I AM! HERE I AM! But of course, neither are sensible-parent things to think. ![]() I'd consider myself a sensible parent but I'm not going to lie: I spent half the book thinking OH NOES! I'M GOING TO LOCK THEM UP! FOREVER! and the other half thinking YOU POOR THING, YOU JUST NEED SOMEONE TO TALK TO. I think I spent as much time laughing at/with myself as I did laughing at/with Dino, Jonathan and Ben. With high teen pregnancy rates, is there such a thing as too much accuracy? Or are honest portrayals the best form of education? Reissued a decade later, we can have that conversation all over again through the prism of the three teenage boys this novel follows.Īs a mother of teenage boys, Doing It was both a pleasure and a pain to read. Jonathan worries what his mates will think of the girl he likes.Īnd Ben is having extra "lessons" from his sexy teacher.įirst published in 2003, Doing It is the story of a group of teenagers discovering sex for the first time. Dino's girlfriend won't give him what he wants. ![]()
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