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Things that piss you off Page 869
Quote: Harridan @ February 20 2012, 3:36 PM GMTMildred Taylor is brilliant. Well worth reading as an adult. 'Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry' is about a black family in 1930s Mississippi and it doesn't shrink away from subjects like lynchings and burnings one bit. I read it when I was a kid, it's very powerful.
Haven't read the other two yet, they're not for the next few weeks.
Thumbs up for Mildred then. Thumbs down for Beverley Naidoo and Jamila Gavin if they only get read for university courses.
Quote: Kenneth @ February 20 2012, 3:52 PM GMTThumbs up for Mildred then. Thumbs down for Beverley Naidoo and Jamila Gavin if they only get read for university courses.
I'm sure they get read by actual children, but I wasn't a child when their books were published...
I also have just finished re-reading Susan Cooper's The Dark is Rising quintet which has some very good writing in it.
I am upset by Marc P's lack of avatar. I feel like someone may have stolen his identity and the BCG world is now an uncertain and scary place
Yeah, it disappeared... don't know why lol.
He can have this one I made....
Agencies who leave you a message saying you didn't send them some forms.
Then when you ring to try and confirm they didn't recieve the forms I sent they don't know.
It shouldn't take a week to figure out if you got it or it was lost in the post.
How about just send me a new form. Would be quicker.
My biggest irritant at the moment are people who read a book, believe every single word in it and then become a zealout for their new single issue cause.
'ZOMFG! You have to read this book, it changed my life!'
Your life must have been pretty empty in the first place for you to swallow some crackpot hippy's bullshit on macrobiotics.
The most insightful and life changing book I've read lately has been 'Delia's How To Boil a Doily While Knitting An Egg' vol 3.
Quote: Shandonbelle @ February 21 2012, 1:46 PM GMTThe most insightful and life changing book I've read lately has been 'Delia's How To Boil a Doily While Knitting An Egg' vol 3.
I've got that, it's brill. My toast has never looked so civilised
Quote: Shandonbelle @ February 21 2012, 1:46 PM GMTThe most insightful and life changing book I've read lately has been 'Delia's How To Boil a Doily While Knitting An Egg' vol 3.
I only read things that come with a free dinosaur toy on the cover.
They are a bugger to get off in the supermarket though before the security guard notices...don't they realise we only want the toy?
Quote: Renegade Carpark @ February 21 2012, 1:39 PM GMTMy biggest irritant at the moment are people who read a book, believe every single word in it and then become a zealout for their new single issue cause.
'ZOMFG! You have to read this book, it changed my life!'
Your life must have been pretty empty in the first place for you to swallow some crackpot hippy's bullshit on macrobiotics.
I don't think the book she suggested you read was about macrobiotics...oh sorry this is a differnent thread. Of course you aren't having a dig at anyone who disagreed with you in another thread...that would be pathetic.
Do you think porn mags ever come with free toys?