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black_23 · Post by **black_23** » Sat Jun 03, 2006 10:05 pm

Just have to say finished Labyrinth today it is brilliant soooo cooooolllllll!

Lynds · Post by **Lynds** » Tue Jun 06, 2006 8:47 pm

Ok I'm gona be really sad and geeky and put a quote, well it's a poem really from Perks of Being a Wallflower cos yes it is my all time fave book but also this poem is beautiful and in the book the main character gives it to his friend as part of his Christmas present...it makes sense in the book. See what you think...it might be triggering for some people though.....

WARNING. POSSIBLE TRIGGERS ! SU

FROM ‘THE PERKS OF BEING A WALLFLOWER’
STEPHEN CHBOSKY

Once on a yellow piece of paper with green
lines he wrote a poem
And he called it “chops”
because that was the name of his dog
And that’s what it was all about
And his teacher gave him an A
and a gold star
And his mother hung it on the kitchen
door and read it to his aunts
That was the year Father Tracy
took all the kids to the zoo
And he let them sing on the bus
And his little sister was born
with tiny toenails and no hair
And his mother and father kissed a lot
And the girl around the corner sent him a
Valentine signed with a row of X’s
and he had to ask his father what the X’s meant
And his father always tucked him in bed at night
And he was always there to do it

Once on a piece of paper with blue lines
he wrote a poem
And he called it “Autumn”
because that was the season
And that’s what it was all about
And his teacher gave him an A
and asked him to write more clearly
And his mother never hung it on the kitchen door
because of its new paint
And the kids told him
that Father Tracy smoked cigars
And left butts on the pews
And sometimes they would burn holes
That was the year his sister got glasses
with thick lenses and black frames
And the girl around the corner laughed
when he asked her to go see Santa Claus
And the kids told him why
his mother and father kissed a lot
And his father never tucked him in bed at
night
And his father got mad
when he cried for him to do it.

Once on a paper torn out of his notebook
he wrote a poem
And he called it “Innocence: A Question”
because that was the question about his girl
And that’s what it was all about
And his professor gave him an A
and a strange steady look
And his mother never hung it on the kitchen door
because he never showed her
That was the year that Father Tracy died
And he forgot how the end
of the Apostle’s Creed went
And he caught his sister
making out on the back porch
And his mother and father never kissed
or even talked
And the girl around the corner
wore too much makeup
That made him cough when he kissed her
but he kissed her anyway
because that was the thing to do
And at three A.M. he tucked himself into bed
his father snoring soundly

That’s why on the back of a brown paper bag
he tried another poem
And he called it “Absolutely Nothing”
Because that’s what it was really all about
And he gave himself an A
and a slash on each damned wrist
And he hung it on the bathroom door
because this time he didn’t
think he could reach the kitchen.

marshmallowfluff · Post by **marshmallowfluff** » Tue Jun 06, 2006 9:05 pm

ghost girl - torey hayden
twilight children - torey hayden
one child - torey hayden
tigers child - torey hayden (see a pattern emmerging here?

tigers child is a sequel to one child)
the pact - jodi picoult
out of the dark - linda caine and robin royston
any of the louise renningson - georgia nicholson diaries, they are so funny. you need to read them in order to be able to understand them though.

Lynds · Post by **Lynds** » Tue Jun 06, 2006 9:31 pm

Oh my god I LOVE louise rennison!! I even have a georgia nicholson wrist band that says 'mucho excitemondo' how cool is that?! Have you been on her website? It's vair vair cool...!

ViolinPlayingGoat · Post by **ViolinPlayingGoat** » Tue Jun 06, 2006 9:48 pm

black_23 wrote:Managed to get Salem falls - Jodi Picoult and Wise Children - Angela Carter today so can't wait to start them.

i LOVE wise children

tis the book we had to read for my AS lit course this year, and a lot of people in my class find it very confusing, but i love it. you just can't help but like dora. ive read it about 5 times now [partly as i had to know it inside out for the exam, but also cos its great!]

i just recently read 'a long way down' by nick hornby which is fab. i love a lot of nick hornby

also jonathan coe is excellent, my favuorite is 'the house of sleep' which has some great twists and is about people in a sleep laboratory.

my dad likes a lot of the same authors as me, so i buy him books as presents and then borrow them

amerylis · Post by **amerylis** » Tue Jun 13, 2006 10:31 am

If i need comfort i rad some of my 'easy' books, ones i know back to front, Lord of the Rings, Harry Potter, Star Trek books.

otherwise I read other books sciency books, or just whatever i get my hands on

Nemo · Post by **Nemo** » Tue Jun 13, 2006 10:46 pm

I was reading The Master and the Margarita but i'm only on page 70.
Had to study so tried to do that although i wasn't very focused on what i had to do at the time.
Been reading on Mental Health in general as well although i was reading on BPD it was an article where people where describing how they felt and it sounded so much like me that i got scared and stopped reading.
When i'm been easy on myself i read horror or science fiction or fantasy. Was looking at Clive Barker's books of blood at the weekend as well as re looking at the Sandman series by Neil Gaiman thats ace!

rosie605 · Post by **rosie605** » Wed Jun 14, 2006 3:24 am

MiStAkE wrote:ghost girl - torey hayden
twilight children - torey hayden
one child - torey hayden
tigers child - torey hayden

Torey Hayden is AMAZING!

The romantic in me likes Nicholas Sparks

Another easy read is theConfessions of a Shopoholic Series

Lynds · Post by **Lynds** » Thu Jun 15, 2006 6:05 pm

I just read Noughts and Crosses by Malorie Blackman as a girl in my reading group recommended it to me. I thought the idea was pretty damn good but didn't like her writing style and she kept re-using the same phrases plus for some weird reason I found it incredbily trigery

Now reading something about monsters written by the son of Frank Zappa...it's quite silly but good

leemc77 · Post by **leemc77** » Thu Jun 15, 2006 8:01 pm

Just finished "The Historian" by Elizabeth Kostova. Fiction account on the search for Dracula. Very interesting and a fast read.

plantt · Post by **plantt** » Sun Jun 18, 2006 6:18 am

"can you keep a secret?" by sophie kinsella
"size 12 is not fat" by meg cabot
yes i've been a girlie dork today

Bluepeter36 · Post by **Bluepeter36** » Mon Jul 31, 2006 6:40 am

I just finsihed this book just Listen by: Sarah Dessen

it was an amaizin book.......maybe the best one I've read

silver_smurf · Post by **silver_smurf** » Mon Jul 31, 2006 2:32 pm

When I feel bad, I love reading books that are easy to get into and have that warm fuzzy feeling. The last ones that I read were The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants by Ann Brashares. I don't care that these books were written for an audience much younger than me

I like reading something where I don't have to think too much. Besides lots of grown ups read Harry Potter

plantt · Post by **plantt** » Mon Jul 31, 2006 4:07 pm

A Yellow Raft in Blue Water by Michael Dorris

b3autifu2l37 · Post by **b3autifu2l37** » Tue Aug 01, 2006 4:02 pm

i enjoyed "a million little pieces" by james frey, even though i cannot directly relate to the drug/alcohol abuse. a lot of things he said i could relate to my SI though.

black_23 · Post by **black_23** » Tue Aug 01, 2006 8:17 pm

I just read Noughts and Crosses by Malorie Blackman as a girl in my reading group recommended it to me. I thought the idea was pretty damn good but didn't like her writing style and she kept re-using the same phrases plus for some weird reason I found it incredbily trigery

I've read this and found it quite triggery too, Im not sure why perhaps it was all the emotions that never let up in that book. The next ones good two and haven't read the third on yet.

Finished My sister keeper last weekend, so terribly sad. Amsterdam by Ian McEwan is really good too I thought.

plantt · Post by **plantt** » Wed Aug 02, 2006 4:45 am

I don't care that these books were written for an audience much younger than me I like reading something where I don't have to think too much.
--yes!! I fully believe that books & movies & music should either entertain me or teach me. if they're boring or such why bother.. (well except for schoolbooks) & often I don't want "teaching" type books. I want "distractiony" & things that'll take me along for the ride =)
at times I really love little kid books. like dr seuss & bill peet & berenstain bears. sometimes all the color & such is great... & really although it can be a rather embarrassing thing I don't see it as "bad" or "dumb" =)

Quiet little Angel · Post by **Quiet little Angel** » Fri Aug 04, 2006 11:22 pm

i have the most inspiering book ever: Advice from the heart, by Dalai Lama... (i'm not buddist, but this one's written for all other people too... loads of good stuff, even a whole chapter for the nonreligious... )

green · Post by **green** » Fri Aug 04, 2006 11:57 pm

Everyone should read The Secret History by Donna Tartt. It's such a great book.

And read at least one book by Haruki Murakami... He never fails to amaze me. Especially Norwegian Wood- it's one of my favourite books.

plantt · Post by **plantt** » Sun Aug 06, 2006 5:13 am

Quiet little Angel wrote:i have the most inspiering book ever: Advice from the heart, by Dalai Lama... (i'm not buddist, but this one's written for all other people too... loads of good stuff, even a whole chapter for the nonreligious... )

--have you read "the art of happiness" it's my favorite book by him so far

"the curious incident of the dog in the night-time" by mark haddon (i think)

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