oureternity
Collection of short stories bought by Random House
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Post by oureternity on Nov 20, 2007 2:41:47 GMT -5
"Bessie had been down into the kitchen" Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte.
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Post by Carma on Nov 21, 2007 9:55:27 GMT -5
'Frits, die in het Kurhaus in onze geimproviseerde verkiezingsstudio staat, krijgt het fatale nieuws via een sms'je.' 'Is er nog nieuws?' Rick Nieman so, now in English.. "Frits, who was in the Kurhaus in our improvised election studio, gets the fatal news (eehm..) through a textmessage (? or just sms.. )" it's about the day people heard about Pim Fortuyn's death. Frits is a news correspondent I believe..
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Isa
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Post by Isa on Nov 22, 2007 9:04:12 GMT -5
"When I looked up through the web of trees, the night fell over me, and for a moment I lost my boundaries, feeling like the sky was my own skin and the moon was my heart beating up there in the dark." ~ The Secret Life of Bees
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Kristie
Novel turned into BBC miniseries
"If a book is well written, I always find it too short."
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Post by Kristie on Nov 25, 2007 16:19:20 GMT -5
Then we will examine the ideas of two of the most influential cognitive developmental theorists, Jean Piaget (Module 3) and Lev Vygotsky (Module 4).
~my educational psychology textbook
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oureternity
Collection of short stories bought by Random House
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Post by oureternity on Nov 26, 2007 4:17:49 GMT -5
"Yes, there are many examples you can bring from everyday life, from the politicians' surgery speeches to certain writers' proclamations to chickens." - Reading Lolita in Tehran
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rosemint
Collection of short stories published by an independent editor
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Post by rosemint on Dec 2, 2007 15:52:02 GMT -5
"Scrooge was not a man to be frightend by echoes." A Christmas carol by Charles Dickens
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Kristie
Novel turned into BBC miniseries
"If a book is well written, I always find it too short."
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Post by Kristie on Dec 2, 2007 15:58:50 GMT -5
"Someone who had ventured down the Alley without a torch had not been so lucky." ~Physik by Angie Sage
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Isa
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Post by Isa on Jan 1, 2008 9:26:39 GMT -5
"Boy, Mom would be proud of my thinking and attitude today." (Go Ask Alice)
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annak
Collection of short stories published by an independent editor
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Post by annak on Jan 1, 2008 19:11:50 GMT -5
"The association of Cassandra's family with Oxford was a particularly beneficial one for the Steventon Austens." [Becoming Jane Austen by Jon Spence]
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zeldafitzgerald
Collection of short stories bought by Random House
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Post by zeldafitzgerald on Jan 2, 2008 8:43:28 GMT -5
"Suddenly, from the biscuit tin in which it had been stored, the dormant cocoon of a great Attacus moth, stirred into life by the unaccustomed heat, bursts open."
-At Large and at Small, familiar essays by Anne Fadiman
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Post by Hanna on Jan 3, 2008 18:53:08 GMT -5
"You've been in town for three hours and twenty minutes." Mila 18 by Leon Uris
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Post by Hanna on Jan 3, 2008 18:54:57 GMT -5
"Boy, Mom would be proud of my thinking and attitude today." (Go Ask Alice) You're reading Go Ask Alice? That book really made an impression on me when I was younger, I read it like three times my junior year! How do you like it?
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Isa
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Post by Isa on Jan 3, 2008 22:33:26 GMT -5
The ending really took me by surprise, I stood there with the book in my hands for like 5 minutes, just trying to catch my breath! Over all I thought it was a good book, the one thing that did bug me once in a while was that it didn't always sound like a teenager's diary and you could just tell they were trying to make a point. But in the end it worked!
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Post by Carma on Mar 19, 2008 8:51:05 GMT -5
"Everything had a battered, trampled-on look, as though the place had just been visited by some large violent animal." 1984, George Orwell
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lindsay
Collection of short stories published by an independent editor
"I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound and stab us." - Franz Kafka
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Post by lindsay on Mar 19, 2008 10:57:14 GMT -5
"No, thankyou," she said. The Portable Dorothy Parker. Kind of dull!
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