Gimme Everything You Got audiobook

The sporty feminist 70s romp you didn’t know you needed! I loved this book’s take on a historical setting - it offered strong female perspectives naturally that were era-appropriate. Plus, this is truly a coming of age story with sex-positive values. Susan is relatable and funny and figuring out what exactly she wants from her life. And I loved the focus on friendships and changing relationships with her parents while also leaving room for romance. Fun and feminist, sporty and summer-y!

This book was delicious. I positively loved it. I was laughing out loud by page 2. I also did some crying, I’ll admit. Susan is the best kind of MC. So flawed and yet so likable with so many cringey moments and so many heart warming triumphs. I was devastated and uplifted by turns. Love love love!I don’t want to give any spoilers at all so I will just leave it at that.

An irreverent, hilarious, raunchy, fearless feminist manifesto. I loved every second of it.

*This book was given to me by the publisher to give an honest review in return*I enjoyed this 1970s, feminist, rom-com novel. It's about a girl named Susan who joins her school's soccer team because of the hot soccer coach. Susan learns about herself and discovers what she really loves. I loved this book about how girls can do everything like boys can because some people still don't know that. This book made a lot of sexual references but remember this was written in the 70s setting. It was nice to see how teenagers act in high school because it is realistic that readers could understand. The main character, Susan, is a fun and loving character. She wants to try to find her prince charming which she thinks is her soccer coach. There were also many amazing supporting characters like Susan's friends, her team, and even her coach. It's one of the main themes and factors of this book because they are the ones who say that girls can do anything and are strong, brave about it. So the characters in this book were amazing. This was a wonderful book and I loved all the girl power in it because some girls need to read that they are strong. This book brightened my day and gave me good laughs. I recommend this to contemporary feminist book fans.

I loved this book. It reminded me of Are you there god, it’s me Margret by Judy Blume. Then it had all of these references to the70s which I loved. I was born in 1975 so it is very nostalgic. When they mentioned Bozo the clown o smiled so hard. This book is also sexy as these girls began to explore their sexuality. We follow Susan and her friends as they join a new girls soccer team at their school. They are mainly joining because the new coach Bobby is a fox. No one supports their efforts and the boys and men treat itAs a joke. Her parents have divorced because her mother wants to lead a different life and try and make something of herself. Her father is about to remarry a younger woman.I really enjoyed this book. It brought be back to my younger self. I would definitely recommend it.

3.75 but rounding up. It was another YA book 🤦🏼‍♀️, which is why the actual rating was lower, but so hilarious. Lots of awkward sexual encounters, master-bating, relationships and other funny YA stuff. It took place in 1979 which added to the storyline. The main story is about a new coach that is young and handsome coming to a HS to start up a girls’ soccer team. ALL the girls want to try out bc they’re all in love with the new HOT coach, but had never actually touched a soccer ball. 🤣 The team was terrible, but through lots of funny mishaps, the coach actually made the team be, sort of, successful. This book isn’t probably for everyone, but it was entertaining and made me lol.

This book starts out sort of like Porky's with female leads and ends up being something more. Not my normal genre, but I thought it was a great, feminist coming-of-age story.

This YA book was both cute and heartwarming but still raunchy and hilarious and I couldn’t get enough of it.If Dazed & Confused got together with Bend it Like Beckham and had a baby, you’d get Gimme Everything You Got.This book takes place in the suburbs of Chicago during the year of 1979, Susan Klintock is in her junior year when Bobby McMann arrives at her school. Bobby is charming and oh so hot, but he’s also the coach of the brand new girls soccer team, and totally off limits. Susan’s never played soccer before, but that doesn’t stop her from trying out for the team. After an eventful season, Susie learns more about herself than she ever would have imagined. She is unapologetically herself, a little stubborn and selfish, but she’s a love lust teen so what more can we expect!I don’t know if any review can do this book justice, it’s that good.READ. IT. & thank me later 👋🏼

Loved this book! Susan starts as an unmotivated teen, and grows into a young woman who knows what she wants. She makes mistakes on the way, but learns how to be a better friend, a great soccer player, and how to appreciate the gifts of an unconventional family, a hot coach, and reliable friends. I couldn’t put it down, but also didn’t want it to end!

I was slow to really get into this, but I'm glad I stuck with it. I would have loved this book as a teenager. Set in the 70s, sporty, sex-positive, and feminist, it hits a lot of good points for me. I've seen it called funny a lot, but I'm not sure I would call it that. Susan is pretty witty and sarcastic at times, so it could be amusing, but I wouldn't say laugh-out-loud. But I love that it shows female sexuality (especially teenage hormones) in a real way, and relationships between women are given a lot of attention. The relationships Susan develops with Bobby and Joe are great and interesting in their own ways, but the friendships she makes (and saves), and the one growing between her mother and Polly are even better. :)

I love it when a book surprises me. And this one really did. I honestly wasn’t expecting very much out of it. But this was a fun read that explores first love and also, women’s sports!It’s set in 1979 in the US. And while I have lived here for some years now, I didn’t know about how Title IX (established in 1972) was set down to establish access to any activity that receives Federal financial assistance, and that includes sports. So in this high school, a new athletics coach arrives to set up a girl’s soccer team.It helps very much that he is good looking and wears shorts when he’s first introduced to the school. The shorts “hugged his butt like it was a package wrapped by an overachieving Christmas elf”. And lots of girls sign up for the soccer tryouts. Most of them drop out though, not realising soccer means more than standing around and ogling the cute coach.Susan sticks it out, along with some of her friends. She begins to enjoy the game, and is getting to be quite good at it. But there aren’t many other girls’ teams to play against (they only have one game set up by their coach). She still has this hope that she’ll get close to Coach Bobby. And her infatuation for a teacher may mean that she’s missing out on some more age-appropriate boys.It was especially interesting for me to learn about Title IX and the attitude that people had towards girls in sports at that time. One of the most amusing moments is when the parent of a boy Susan baby-sits sees her practising and asks if it has affected her menstruation. Oh boy. I suppose this was some kind of old-fashioned way of thinking that sports and exercise affects a woman’s ability to have children? Luckily Susan and her teammates chime in.Susan is a great character – flawed, definitely, but she learns and grows so much, not just about her attitude towards sports and boys, but also with her relationships with her friends and family.Gimme Everything You Got was a surprising, funny, fearlessly feminist read!