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Chapter One
Nov. 28,7:30 PM
I just took my own picture with a Polaroid camera. The last photograph of me before I lose my virginity. I sat on the bed and held the camera at arm's length and smiled. The flash turned my eyes all red, so now I have this Last Picture of Jonah as a Virgin, and I look like some kind of werewolf. Tonight, when I get back from Posie's, maybe I'll take another photograph and compare the two.
I'm sitting in my room, listening to Mom's radio show, Pillow Talk, on WOMN-FM. I have to admit it's become an obsession. It's like a horror movie where you cover your eyes, but then you spread your fingers and peek because you have to see what happens next.
All these kids are calling Mom up and asking her these crazy questions. I'm a fifteen-year-old girl and whenever I kiss a guy I get the hiccups. Is this normal? Or, I'm a sixteen-year-old boy and I like to read Vogue and Mademoiselle. Is this normal? Or, I'm a seventeen-year-old boy and I don't want to touch a girl unless I'm listening to Jay-Z. Is this normal? No matter what questions get asked, Mom always answers the same thing: Tell me'are you being nice to yourself?
I almost called up Mom myself. Here's what I'd say: “Doctor” Black, I'm this seventeen-year-old guy who was held back a year in school for completely unfair reasons and now I'm in the eleventh grade all over again while my friends are all seniors, and I'm just about to sleep with the perfect girl who's been my friend since I was ten, except that I can't stop thinking about this kind of mystery girl I know from this boarding school in Pennsylvania I used to go to. Is this normal?
I could even answer her next question: And no, I'm not being nice to myself. I think I'm being nice to everybody else, though. Does that count?
What does “being nice to yourself” mean exactly anyway?
I think I'm going to jump on my bike and head over to Posie's house pretty soon. I've got the flowers I bought from Rite Aid, and the condoms I bought a couple weeks ago. I even hav...
(Still Nov. 28, ten minutes later) Okay, at that exact second the phone rang.
Somehow I knew it was Sophie from the sound of the ring. I can't explain this except that as I walked to the kitchen to pick up the cordless, I had absolutely no doubt about who it was.
“Hi? Jonah?” I could see her so clearly, I could almost smell her shampoo. It was amazing that she could be calling me in Pompano Beach, Florida, all the way from Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, and have it sound like she was in the same room. In the background, I could hear the sound of the traffic on Lancaster Pike, which is this big road in front of Masthead Academy. I knew she was standing at the pay phone outside Webber Hall, which is the administration building. I wondered why she hadn't used the phone in the hallway of the girls' dorm, but maybe she wanted privacy when she talked to me. I liked that.
About the Author-
Jonah Black, of course, grew up in Pompano Beach, Florida. He attended boarding school in Pennsylvania until recently when, under shrouded circumstances, he left and has since been picking up the pieces of his shattered life. And checking out all the Florida chicks.
Reviews-
January 1, 2002 Jonah Black is back in Run, Jonah, Run, Volume III of the Black Book: Diary of a Teenage Stud series. The virile volume opens with Jonah on the verge of losing his virginity to Posie. An unexpected phone call from former flame Sophie changes the mood.
March 1, 2002 Gr. 8-12. In the third volume of the author's Black Book (Diary of a Teenage Stud) series, Florida high-school junior Jonah Black surely wins the award for most unlucky-in-love male teen. In this journal, he once again inadvertently sabotages multiple opportunities to consummate or even begin relationships, and his mishaps are as engaging as ever. It's worth noting that the objects of Jonah's affection run the gamut-- from wholesome surfer girl Posie to brilliant, edgy Molly--yet all are realistic characters with exasperating and wholly believable flaws. While some details of Jonah's personal life are made clear, readers will be intrigued by what's left open, and they will be waiting for the next volume, to be entitled " Faster, Faster, Faster." The light tone of the narrative masks some real depth, which the thoughtful reader will savor. Expect a run on this title from teens who enjoyed the previous books.(Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 2002, American Library Association.)
November 1, 2001 Adolescent Adonis wannabe Jonah Black records his musings for posterity in the second volume of The Black Book: series. In Volume II: Stop, Don't Stop by Jonah Black, the hero recovers from a diving accident, slogs through school and attempts to understand his feelings for two different girls. PW wrote of Jonah in Volume I: Girls, Girls, Girls: "He's instantly likable, and his vulnerabilities, acute description and tenuous hold on reality make for gripping and often humorous reading."
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