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13 of 15 people found the following review helpful.
A Compulsively Readable Memoir
By The Literary Lioness
Do Tampons Take Your Virginity?A Catholic Girl’s Memoir by Marie Simas is a bittersweet account of her childhood and teenage years by the author. When I initial started reading this book, I thought that it was going to be a light-hearted account when it comes to growing up in a Portuguese Catholic family. I thought that it might be harsh on the Catholic Church. But it isn’t genuinely so much with regards to the Church, but rather when it comes to the fears and hypocrisies in regards to a lot of persons living under Church doctrine, and old world Portuguese values.
Simas grew up in a savagely violent home. Her father was abusive. The father continually rapes the mother — even while she’s dying of cancer. Because Marie merely doesn’t receive her father’s brutality towards herself or her mother, he beats her with a belt on a regular basis.
What I like in regards to Marie is that while she couldn’t escape the beatings, she refused to meekly receive it. She was always rebellious. She became so desperate for love, however, that in spite of both parents warning her regarding sex, when she is fifteen she loses her virginity to the original boy who recompense any attention to her. She misinterprets his physical positive feeling of liking as real love and believes that he will take her away from her “miserable family.” When he goes away and a few days later she realizes that she in all likelihood won’t listen from him again. Simas touchingly recalls:
“That night, I fell asleep as soon as it got dark outside. The sun set on my adolescence. Though I had experienced severe beatings, threats, and almost ceaseless fear, not one thing could compare to the pain I felt from lost love.”
The father’s abuse and her original lover’s rejection affected Marie’s future relationships with men profoundly. She becomes a “user” of men — something that she is not proud of today. She wanted to injure men as they had hurt her — even nice men who actually cared for her. While Marie harshly judges those around her, she is evenly hard on herself. She is just being honest.
Things I don’t like? Well, I don’t actually like the title — it might make a heap of humans curious but might turn a good deal of potential readers off. The book is divided into short chapters that make the narrative seem a bit choppy rather of flowing into each other as a merged whole.
I may not agree with everything the author says, but I unquestionably understand where she is coming from. I have a sentiment that this book was a catharsis for the author; a way of exorcising her demons — her anger and despair. She likewise has a mordant sense of humor that in all probability saved her life. You may find yourself crying one minute and laughing the next.
This book is barbarically honest. Be prepared. There is marital rape, brutal child abuse, and strong sexuality.
8 of 9 persons found the following review helpful.
Thought provoking
By D. Geer
I can’t say I enjoyed this book, because so much of it was sad and awful. I couldn’t, however, put it down. I held reading and hoping that everything would turn out well, that Marie’s father would plummet from world to a hideous, fiery death that involved a lot of pain and humiliation. On a heap of levels I may relate to her story, on others I am shocked and horrified that a girl who could perchance have been my neighbor growing up in California’s Central Valley expended her childhood and teen years in such hell.
I got my wish for a happy ending and wanted to stand and applaud Marie for her courage and determination. Her writing is simple but powerful. I without delay downloaded Douche-bag Roulette because I feel that this author is distinctive and capable to get to the heart of the matter without a lot of gorgeous words.
I would unquestionably commend reading this book.
5 of 6 persons found the following review helpful.
Really 3.5 Stars – Mixed Feelings
By T. Harper
Does the book have a lot of foul-mouthed stuff? Yes, but I found it was percentage of the author’s way of coping with the craziness. First off, I’m not catholic, but I sympathize with the a good deal of difficultnesses that the author brings up when it comes to her youth. Many of the subjects are things that we as women have all gone through. I enjoyed her description of the trips to Portugal and her relationships with her female relatives. Reading with regards to her abusive father was very difficult for me. That stuff is way out of my ease zone, but I felt for her just the same. At the end of the day, Simas tried to make very difficult situations and show that they do have a great deal of humor. Some of that humor works and galore of it is just fabulously sad.
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