Our Girl and Captain James Addicts Part XVII

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Ooh some recommendations from the archives. I don't think I've ever read acceptance so I'm going to, but I did read and enjoy 'strip snap' although I think it was written by a 13 year old or someone incredibly young...

Revisiting the earlier stuff is fun! It's incredible how the pieces have grown in length - some of those really early ones were no more than a paragraph long! Some of my favs were from Chezzie girl - her take on Molly & Rebecca becoming friends was great!

Nooooo orphan as a priest he couldn't marry and I would want a happy ending... unless he gave up the priesthood.

Every time there was a funeral in The Thorn Birds and they trooped across that hill, it made me cry.

Whajeb fab chapter and a great way for Molly to meet Charles' parents!

I tried to explain to my mum that ourgirl was my thornbirds - she had a strange glaze come over her at the mention!! Can I give a wee mention to Bryan Brown who played the husband (?) - naked wrestling candidate? was good at shearing if I remember correctly - and did they not marry in real life?

Thank you I love it's getting difficult to do something different x

Ooh whajeb must just say Bryan Brown in A Town Like Alice - it was an Australian TV production and the best version made of the book. Dates from the early 1980's - about 4 hours long. It's not available on DVD but I've seen it on You Tube. I love You Tube for lots of old stuff you can't seem to find anywhere else. He did marry Rachel Ward in real life.

Loved it rhubarb , think the book was my highlight of Higher English I'm sure they are still together x must watch on YouTube x

whajeb thanks for that lovely chapter on which to end the day!!
Beautiful...get your dilemma though as basically the premise with our two favourites is always going to be boy meets girl, fall in love and live happily ever after, but with a few heartbreaks, bit of confusion, other moments of chaos all thrown into the mix... so even with a broken leg and a few more hurdles along the way, which we would love you to string out for a lot more chapters of your beautiful writing it will have to conclude with a white wedding and baby of their own at some stage!!

remember to enjoy that teen of yours... mine is leaving the teen years soon and that is leaving me feeling a bit bereft, but it is just another phase!!

Blimey I wish I'd got to read that for English exams -it was all Jane Austen (who I love now but it took a while at the time), DH Lawrence (still detest), Chaucer (sort of fun and a bit cheeky when you've worked out what he's actually saying), Shakespeare (better performed than read) and Thomas Hardy poetry (Actually not too bad). I love Nevil Shute, he was a great author. I particularly like Pastoral - a love story set on a bomber base in WWII and published during the war - no surprises there!

Well of course CJ priest would eventually have to leave the priesthood ilove in order to marry the heroine, a thinly disguised version of me naturally ( short, middle aged, hmm, perhaps not ) but not before plenty of angst and striding around in said cassock and fingering of rosary beads.

In an interview, Richard Chamberlain said that the glow Rachel Ward had from falling in love with Bryan Brown on set, really helped the on screen chemistry between Meggie and Ralph.

Likewise, rhubarb, we never got to read anything like that for my English exams. I remember excruciating lessons trying to discuss DH Lawrence and sex with a (in our teen eyes at least) crusty old male teacher.

Now if we'd been able to discuss who we'd have liked to see in the naked wrestling scene in Sons and Lovers, that would have been far more fun! The line up would have been rather different to the one we've got today though.

I wish we'd had a town like Alice on ours level reading list. Mrs Boong! The Virginia Mackenna film is still one of my all time favourites. On the beach by Neville Shute is on my list of books to read someday.

Morning all. It's quiet on here today. I think the weather reckons it's still winter. Windy, heavy showers and chilly. No chance of getting the summer clothes out yet.

Have to agree with rhub about Neville White...some of misspent teens were with my nose in all of his books! Pastoral was always a fav.( Perhaps now is a good time to revisit) But I always had an interest in anything with a ww2 RAF plot lines. But certainly agree that books like ATown..would have greatly improved the A level syllabus...detest both Pinter and Hardy!!

Neville white don't you love it!! That should have said Neville Shute!!

I kept a record for years of the books I'd read. Looking back at it, during A level and through university, I can't quite believe the number of books I got through. I went through a Henry James and Edith Wharton phase and remember wallowing in the utter depression of thwarted love in Wharton's novellas Ethan Frome and Summer. I think Liam Neeson played Ethan in the film version. I've a horrible feeling I was quite a pretentious, insufferable teen and used to carry round novels and poetry in French.

In my defence I was doing A level French lit...

Thanks for the YouTube tip rhubarb that's my day sorted , we got to watch the TV series in class, ahhhh those were the days!!

bk it is scary how quick the years are passing, have a big gap between my 2 and I think sometimes the littler one takes up so much time (in a nice way) that older seems to be growing up without me noticing!

Morning. While we're reminiscing I'm going to put a word in for another great twentieth century English writer - H.E. Bates. I loved his books too - not the Larkins so much that was an example of Sunday Night Telly that went on beyond the original books although it was OK - but A Moment in Time, Love for Lydia and Fair Stood the Wind for France. (first and last are WWII themed). I managed to find the ancient TV production of A Moment in Time on You Tube as well having only ever seen it when it first came out about 1980. BK he also wrote something called the Tales of Flying Officer X during the war while he was in the RAF but possibly under another name at the time. That was something I read in my teenage years and I thought it was pretty good too. Haven't seen it anywhere since - probably out of print.

Just going to be PC here and state H.E. Bates was a British writer - don't know his exact nationality it's the English language bit that throws you off.

I spent yesterday morning listening to Benedict Cumberbatch & Louise Brierly reading saucy love letters to each other in Dear Bessie. It's on listen again/iplayer if anyone fancies it. I love pretty much anything that comes out of the mass observation archives.

Hi everyone.

I feel like I've not been here for ages. Real life bonkers at the mo, mum took a nasty fall and been in hospital. Brother and family due to arrive at the weekend from Aus for their wedding celebration. Have had no brain space to write, and missing it. Hoping to get back in my groove ASAP.

I rather enjoy a series of books called the original sinners, that had a catholic priest getting up to some serious kinky fuckery with his mistress, who also happens to be an erotic writer. Just saying, as I'll now happily be imagining BA when I read about his character!

I loved Richard Chamberlain too and was gutted when I found out he was gay! Brian Brown was gorgeous too.... I loved The Thorn Birds

Gosh feel very under read. I don't remember much I read other than "mills and boon" and other crappy teenage stuff. I wasn't a bright spark at school so missed out on all the literature stuff. I've made up for now and read masses, well I did. Perhaps my two week summer no wifi holiday could be spent reading some of your recommendations.