The 8th commandment of parentdom: Thou shalt embarrass thine offspring in public (then they can roll their eyes and sigh in a world-weary, grown up fashion) I find sexual innuendo usually does the trick :-)
doh. While experimenting on this post for mine (see above) I think I may have accidentally removed your original title. Was there one, because after I'd finished I noticed the title bar was blank? I've put a title back in but please change it if you don't like it. sorry :-(
reading quickly i swear! i'm hoping to be done tomorrow. feel free to start discussing and i will check back in when i'm done. that way i'm not holding yall back. and you won't kick me out of the book club for being slowwwww.
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When I was young, I loved fantastical books, like The Water Babies and folk tales from different countries (particularly one from China that told the story of brothers with magical powers). As I grew older it was action and excitement that caught my imagination, probably due to dad's reading me bedtime stories like Treasure Island. I devoured books by Rider Haggard and have fond memories of a jungle adventure called Trader Horn and a medieval saga called The Cloister and the Hearth. Then I moved on to epic authors like Dickens, Hugo and Zola. I read the entire Chronicles of Narnia to my children and encouraged them to read for pleasure. I was enthralled by T H White's The Once and Future King and later discovered Mervyn Peake and fell in love with his extraordinary imagination and prose, the strange and disturbing world of Gormenghast and the delightful Mr Pye. Then five years as a mature student taught me how to skim books to find information for essays - it all but destroyed my ability to read and digest a novel at a leisurely pace. In time I was able to read 'normally' again and in recent years I've enjoyed Wild Swans, Middlesex, Captain Corelli's Mandolin and The Time Traveller's Wife. I'm hoping this is just the beginning.... (Lily)
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The 8th commandment of parentdom:
Thou shalt embarrass thine offspring in public
(then they can roll their eyes and sigh in a world-weary, grown up fashion) I find sexual innuendo usually does the trick :-)
doh. While experimenting on this post for mine (see above) I think I may have accidentally removed your original title. Was there one, because after I'd finished I noticed the title bar was blank? I've put a title back in but please change it if you don't like it. sorry :-(
a. i thought that was the 1st commandment.
b. there was no title.
Obviously, I have guilt-trips off to a fine art.
Congrats on the end of the semester Josephine!
I got the book from the library, am hoping to start reading tonight.
Pleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeez join the team Annie!
reading quickly i swear! i'm hoping to be done tomorrow. feel free to start discussing and i will check back in when i'm done. that way i'm not holding yall back. and you won't kick me out of the book club for being slowwwww.
Never fear Josephine. Once we've got you in our clutches, there is no escape heheheh
Ha, Lily, that's why I'm not officially joining!
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