#Beverly Donofrio

[wouldshesnip]

Beverly Donofrio (Riding in Cars with Boys)

Her son is shown to be circumcised in the hospital right at birth.

Would She Snip?: Yes

[queenie435]

“Hi. My name is Fay, and I’m Bev’s best friend. I just wanted to say how beautiful Bev looks tonight. And to wish her all the happiness in the world. But now that I have said that, maybe one of you could say it to her too. Sitting over there is this girl that just has a light around her. And when you’re near her, you just know something exciting is going to happen. So if you all think you deserve some sort of a medal for being here ’just for the special circumstances’ then don’t bother talking to me either. Cause I’m pregnant too!”

🎥 Riding in Cars with Boys (2001)🍿

[professionalintrovert]

[miss-may-i]

Ten People I'd Like To Know Better

I was tagged by @perolesims @itmeansiris @zosa95 @purplesimmer455 @rosienthe @wannabecatwriter @justanothersimsblog @papermint-airplane @silwermoon-sims

Last Song: Blow Me Away by Breaking Benjamin

Favorite Color: Black

Last Movie: Blades of Glory

Last Book: Riding in Cars with Boys by Beverly Donofrio. It's one of my favorite books and short, so easy to pick up and spend a day reading cover to cover.

Sweet, Spicy or Savory: Savory

Last Thing I Googled: "Disinterring meaning"

Current Obsession: I don't have one at the moment, which is shocking.

Looking Forward To: Finishing the urban fantasy I'm currently writing

I'm not going to tag anyone since I'm late to the party and seems like everyone has already done this

[shessoft]

Nine Books for 2025

tagged by @airesgay to list nine books I plan to read in 2025, and girl I don't fucking read ghsklh like I wanna be that girl but I'm just not but I do love making lists that I probably won't complete or whatever. maybe this will encourage me to read again?? anyway

I do love a memoir and I've gotten a few last christmas so I'll start there

Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing - Matthew Perry

The Woman in Me - Britney Spears

I'm Glad My Mom Died - Jennette McCurdy

I Might Regret This - Abbi Jacobson

The Princess Diarist - Carrie Fisher (I zoomed through her books but never finished he final one idk why) speaking of unfinished ->

This is How You Lose Her - Junot Díaz

Riding in Cars with Boys - Beverly Donofrio (top movies of all time and I never got around to reading the memoir its based on)

The Bluest Eye - Toni Morrison (honestly i just want to reread this and her other books I have. also to finally read A Mercy which my late grammy got signed for me in hs when I was really into her writing.)

The Bell Jar - Slyvia Plath (this has been sitting on my shelf forever like so many other books)

and actually imma keep going real quick

The next Hunger Games installment!!

and honorable mention the Wicked series finally especially before Elphie is released !!

tagging @emilyjunk @erikahenningsen @yoglenda @svperhero @lexasdagger @rockinrye

[cinematic-literature]

Riding in Cars with Boys (2001) by Penny Marshall

Book title: Riding in Cars with Boys (1990) by Beverly Donofrio

[veryslowreader]

The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway 

Riding in Cars with Boys

[books-in-media]

Emma Roberts, (Instagram, October 15, 2013)

—Riding in Cars with Boys: Confessions of a Bad Girl Who Makes Good, Beverly Donofrio (1990)

[showmethesneer]

crying the most angry and frustrated tears because i rewatched Riding In Cars with Boys tonight for the first time in probably 10, 11 years. maybe longer. i saw this movie many times when i was younger but i never saw the film as an adult.

i knew every thing that was about to happen, but processing it with my adult mind, i really understood just how traumatizing these events were. these unsupportive parents, this teenage pregnancy, this PIECE OF SHIT husband-- i really got the impact of the tragedy now. i spent the whole movie angry crying. i don't think i ever cried at this movie before.

i feel so grateful that i was never a teen mom. so grateful that at 27 i have never been pregnant. i was never forced or guilted into marrying a man i didn't love or couldn't trust to be my partner in life. i have been thru some terrible, traumatic things in my life, but at least i didn't have a baby at 15.

[reecedarlene]

I wondered if I'd still remember Bobby when I was thirty or forty. I'd be an adult,  but in my memory he'd still be a kid.  ...   wondered if Bobby was the lucky one.  ...  Bobby would never get the chance to spread his wings and learn too fly. I wondered if any of us would.

"Riding in Cars with Boys" by Beverly Donofrio

[house-of-healing-communication]

Maybe when things start to change, you want to hold on to something familiar.

Beverly Donofrio, Riding in Cars with Boys: Confessions of a Bad Girl Who Makes Good

Quotes for all moods

[wepicy]

Quote By Beverly Donofrio About Life “One day can change your life. One day can ruin your life. All life is is three or four big days that change everything.” - Beverly Donofrio

[adamwatchesmovies]

Riding in Cars with Boys (2001)

I can feel Riding in Cars with Boys wrapping its fingers around my neck, desperately trying to wring out the emotions. I say no. NO! This movie may be poised to be emotional but it lacks the genuine heart to make it effective.

Based on the memoirs of Beverly Donofrio, the film begins in 1961. Beverly “Bev” Donofrio (Drew Barrymore) is a smart teenager who dreams of going to college in New York. Unfortunately, she becomes pregnant at 15. Soon she’s married to the baby’s father, Ray (Steve Zahn), and her whole life gets flushed from one toilet to another directly below it. Through it all though, there’s hope that she can climb her way out of this mess of her own making.

The biggest problem with this inspirational drama is Drew Barrymore. She's not right for this role. As a teenage girl, she doesn’t look the part and she simply doesn't have the skills needed to get you to overlook this detail. Next issue: she’s too attractive. No football jock would reject a girl who looks like Bev, even if she handed him some poetry at a party and this makes the circumstances in which she meets Ray unbelievable. She’s just too good-looking. This uneven foundation means the emotions don't come the way they should. Are there tears? Yes, but they ring false. There’s a spark missing throughout. Bev never comes off as a tough mother who loves her child and would never have traded her life for anything else in the world, despite the fact that it came in the way of her dreams. She appears selfish, bitter, petty, and overall unsympathetic. I wouldn’t go so far as to say “unfit” to be a mother, but certainly not motherly.

You want to connect emotionally to this story and its characters. It's easy to understand how difficult it must be for Bev or any mother to raise children while their partner continuously proves themselves useless, or worse. Everyone feels that desire to be more than what life expects you to be, that determination to overcome adversity at any cost. Except the movie doesn't really show you a "way out" or provide any true insight on what this kind of life is like. When you look at the grand scheme of things, she's actually much better off than Ray - who turns out to be a more complex person than her. In a movie like this, you're supposed to leave realizing that yes indeed, Bev's life was made better by giving birth. That's what she says, but you don't believe it, you don't see it, you don't feel it.

When the movie does work is when it spends time with Bev’s son Jason (various actors when he’s young, Adam Garcia when he’s a man). Even from a young age, you can tell there's a lot of conflicting ideas inside the boy. All of the best scenes concern him in one way or another. I know many will be suckered by this true story and the credit all belongs to him.

I’m making Riding in Cars with Boys sound way worse than it is. It’s not unbearable. I can even understand people liking it but you can tell there's someone else out there telling this story better. When it tries to be funny, it really isn’t. It’s a movie about a woman who is not a good mother but we’re supposed to think that she is and the ending is too neat, too clean considering all we've seen before. In different hands, Riding in Cars with Boys could have brought me to tears, but this effort did not come even close. (On DVD, September 12, 2015)

[kari-izumi]

While that's true to a degree in most adaptation, I have two examples that are particularly egregious:

I am Legend was about how Will Smith's character ultimately comes to discover the zombie-fied humans have come to view him as a Boogeyman out to murder them and that they have formed a new, unique culture that he was destroying. Instead, that entire ending was ripped up for some generic add mcguffin cure bullshit that I had to look up when typing this post.

The second is one I've never heard discussed called Riding in Cars With Boys, and autobiography by Beverly Donofrio who got teen pregnant back before teen pregnancy was cool and when girl "disappearing" to live with a distant relatives for six months was not uncommon. Despite this and a terrible husband who became addicted on drugs, Donofrio herself was able to attend college and, of course, become an author. The college story was not only entirely removed, but the fictional Beverly spends most of the movie openly resenting her kid for ruining her life, which....yikes. It's easily my third least favorite movie behind Gigli and Precious in that order.

The real problem with books-turned-movies isn’t “omg they didn’t include every single word in the book” it’s “omg they completely overlooked the main theme, threw out any significant allegories, took away all the emotional pull, an turned it into a boring action movie with a love triangle in it”

[cathygeha]

OTHER GIRLS LIKE ME

by Stephanie Davies

Published by Bedazzled Ink

Non-Fiction

1st September 2020, priced £13.70

   PRESS RELEASE

“I read the first 200 pages of Other Girls Like Me in one sitting, I couldn’t put it down. It’s my story and yet it’s not. It speaks to all of us radicals, feminists, and lesbians who grew up in the 70s and 80s. Stephanie’s warmth and compassion shine through these pages. What a life!" —                      NERI TANNENBAUM, PRODUCER, ORANGE IS THE NEW BLACK

“Other Girls Like Me is funny and sad, powerful and inspirational, especially in these times that are calling for all of us to become activists. And Stephanie Davies can write. Her prose is lyrical, even at times mesmerizing.” — Beverly Donofrio, Riding in Cars with Boys

“Other Girls Like Me is about women being concerned about the horrors in our world and being willing to protest and take nonviolent direct action – which is a very good thing. I do hope that lots of people read it and are inspired to take action themselves!” — Angie Zelter, Founder, Extinction Rebellion Peace

“Other Girls Like Me is a lyrical, fluent and elegant read—it is also funny and poignant in equal measure. In the pre Greta Thunberg era, this personal account of one young woman’s journey into activism is captivating and compelling—and a salient reminder of how the power and solidarity of communities of people with shared values can shape and change our lives—for good!” — Ann Limb, Chair of the Scouts, #1 2019 OUTstanding List of LGBT+ Public Sector Executives

ABOUT THE BOOK

Till now, Stephanie has done her best to play by the rules—which seem to be stacked against girls like her. It doesn’t help that she wants to play football, dress like a boy, and fight apartheid in South Africa—despite living in rural middle England—as she struggles to find her voice in a world where everything is different for girls. Then she hears them on the radio. Greenham women—an irreverent group of lesbians, punk rockers, mothers, and activists who have set up camp outside a US military base to protest nuclear war—are calling for backups in the face of imminent eviction from their muddy tents. She heads there immediately, where a series of adventures—from a break-in to a nuclear research centre to a doomed love affair with a punk rock singer in a girl band—changes the course of her life forever. But the sense of community she has found is challenged when she faces tragedy at home.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Stephanie Davies is a communications consultant who worked for many years as the Director of Public Education for Doctors Without Borders. A UK native, Stephanie moved to New York in 1991, where she taught English Composition at Long Island University’s Brooklyn campus and led research trips to Cuba. Before moving to New York, she co-edited a grassroots LGBT magazine in Brighton called A Queer Tribe. Stephanie earned a teaching degree from Aberystwyth University in Wales, and a BA in European Studies from Bath University, England. She grew up in a small rural village in Hampshire, where much of her first book, Other Girls Like Me, takes place.

Photo credit NYRA LANG

Bedazzled Ink is dedicated to publishing literary fiction, nonfiction, and children’s books that celebrate the unique and under-represented voices of women. For

 For all publicity enquiries, please contact Midas PR:

Georgina Moore | Georgina.Moore@midaspr.co.uk | 020 7361 7860

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New Acquisition: Other Girls Like Me

Stephanie Davies recounts her journey from a girl who tried to play by the rules to becoming a feminist activist in her book, Other Girls Like Me.

Till now, Stephanie has done her best to play by the rules—which seem to be stacked against girls like her. It doesn’t help that she wants to play football, dress like a boy, and fight apartheid in South Africa—despite living in rural middle England—as she struggles to find her voice in a world where everything is different for girls.

Then she hears them on the radio. Greenham women—an irreverent group of lesbians, punk rockers, mothers, and activists who have set up camp outside a US military base to protest nuclear war—are calling for backups in the face of imminent eviction from their muddy tents. She heads there immediately, where a series of adventures—from a break-in to a nuclear research center to a doomed love affair with a punk rock singer in a girl band—changes the course of her life forever. But the sense of community she has found is challenged when she faces tragedy at home.

“Other Girls Like Me is funny and sad, powerful and inspirational, especially in these times that are calling for all of us to become activists. And Stephanie Davies can write. Her prose is lyrical, even at times mesmerizing.” -- Beverly Donofrio, Riding in Cars with Boys

“Other Girls Like Me is about women being concerned about the horrors in our world and being willing to protest and take nonviolent direct action—which is a very good thing. I do hope that lots of people read it.” -- Angie Zelter, Founder, Extinction Rebellion Peace