Should You Shut Your Eyes When You Kiss? Or, How to Survive the Best Years of Your Life

by Carol Wallace, Martha Weston

Guaranteed to guide you safely through a multitude of potential disasters, it shows you how to survive "the best years of your life" in style and actually have fun in the process.

103 pages, Paperback

First published October 1, 1983

About the author

Carol Wallace, the great-great-granddaughter of Lew Wallace, is the author most recently of a new version of "Ben-Hur." It is the official tie-in of the new major film, releasing in August of 2016.

Carol is also the co-author of "To Marry an English Lord," which was one of the inspirations for "Downton Abbey," and author of the historical novel
"Leaving Van Gogh." Previous titles have included humor, parenting, and social history. In 2006 Wallace received a M.A. in art history from Columbia University. The research for her M.A. thesis provided the foundation for "Leaving van Gogh." A 1977 graduate of Princeton University, Wallace lives in New York.

Reviews

[Arminzerella · Rating 2 out of 5]

This title was mentioned as one of those books you need to weed if you’ve still got it on your library shelves. I thought I’d see if I could get a copy through ILL because I wanted to find out just how bad it was. Parts of it are pretty bad - it reinforces bad stereotypes and gender roles – but some of that is what makes it funny. Today’s teens would probably laugh at a lot of the “advice,” and then make a few notes of some schemes to try out at home. Some funny moments, some cringe-worthy.

[Stacy · Rating 3 out of 5]

I thought this book was hilarious when I was a teen, and I still feel that way as an adult.