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Sweet Dreams
Long Distance Love
When Pamela Grey decides to go to a boarding school to prepare for college, she worries that the separation from her boyfriend will destroy their romance
- GenresYoung Adult
250 pages, Mass Market Paperback
First published June 1, 1983
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March 4, 2013
When I read this as a teenager in the 1990s, it was already dated, being published in 1983. Through a fortuitous circumstance I found a copy in a second hand store and bought it for nostalgia's sake.
I remember reading this the first time around, as a rotund, unpopular, ugly teenager and being completely unable to identify with the heroine.
This line had THE most ugly covers that looked instantly dated. I love it. This book has dated very badly:
1:The main character is a sixteen year old called Pam. I haven't met anyone under the age of 50 called Pam!
2:he heroine is a six foot tall, champion basketball player being scouted for a sports scholarship, accepted to a selective boarding school, straight A student and talented violin player. She is beautiful and all the boys are interested in her. It has been a long long while since this sort of heroine was in fashion!
3:Apparently "he hurt me and I hurt him" is "true love"! Wow! Wouldn't fly these days!
4:The hero has "bony fingers" and "bony shoulders", another love interest has "rolls of fat", a friend is described as "rotund". Really cruel descriptions that fortunately are now out of favour in YA fiction.
However, a secondary character is an older single mother mechanic with a chain of auto repair shops, unusual for an early 1980s novel.
I am way into anything retro, so the low rating is for the hero being obstinate, petulant, annoying and hampering the heroine's life, and she (SPOILER ALERT) still takes him back.
I remember reading this the first time around, as a rotund, unpopular, ugly teenager and being completely unable to identify with the heroine.
This line had THE most ugly covers that looked instantly dated. I love it. This book has dated very badly:
1:The main character is a sixteen year old called Pam. I haven't met anyone under the age of 50 called Pam!
2:he heroine is a six foot tall, champion basketball player being scouted for a sports scholarship, accepted to a selective boarding school, straight A student and talented violin player. She is beautiful and all the boys are interested in her. It has been a long long while since this sort of heroine was in fashion!
3:Apparently "he hurt me and I hurt him" is "true love"! Wow! Wouldn't fly these days!
4:The hero has "bony fingers" and "bony shoulders", another love interest has "rolls of fat", a friend is described as "rotund". Really cruel descriptions that fortunately are now out of favour in YA fiction.
However, a secondary character is an older single mother mechanic with a chain of auto repair shops, unusual for an early 1980s novel.
I am way into anything retro, so the low rating is for the hero being obstinate, petulant, annoying and hampering the heroine's life, and she (SPOILER ALERT) still takes him back.
April 15, 2019
A lot of ‘unusuals’ in this SD episode.
Unusual that the girl is so tall (and a basketballer. Being scouted by top colleges. And a straight A student. And a violinist.)
Also unusual for her to be so headstrong for the 80’s (but I like it and this of course causes all types of problems with the relationship). Unusual that, although they’ve been dating for 2 years and they are best friends, they suddenly can’t talk to each other when they become a long distance couple (like really awkward stalled conversations). (**Spoiler** - And that drive-all-day just to see her/her basically fobbing him off after he’s driven-all-day...bit cruel and unnecessary but also a bit dumb of him to just turn up...)
Unusual to have his boss as a female owner of the car garage (even now that would be unusual but even more so back then).
What’s not unusual is that it’s just another so-so story with mix-matched characters.
Unusual that the girl is so tall (and a basketballer. Being scouted by top colleges. And a straight A student. And a violinist.)
Also unusual for her to be so headstrong for the 80’s (but I like it and this of course causes all types of problems with the relationship). Unusual that, although they’ve been dating for 2 years and they are best friends, they suddenly can’t talk to each other when they become a long distance couple (like really awkward stalled conversations). (**Spoiler** - And that drive-all-day just to see her/her basically fobbing him off after he’s driven-all-day...bit cruel and unnecessary but also a bit dumb of him to just turn up...)
Unusual to have his boss as a female owner of the car garage (even now that would be unusual but even more so back then).
What’s not unusual is that it’s just another so-so story with mix-matched characters.
April 2, 2015
Pam was annoyingly perfect, with every single boy she met immediately falling in love with her perfect perfectness. And Bobby was just a passive-aggressive mess. Not fun.
September 29, 2011
lol I totally read (and kept) this for the cover XD
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