If oyu liked "american wife".. "prep" also by her is fabbola

[CNyle]

great description of an outsider.
painfully accrate to read

ponce

All three are ace. Cannot wait for another one from her.

where's that fish gone??

omg this book is so fab

it was like mallory towers with shagging

how many parts could i identify with??? LOADS!!! despite never having been to boarding school

you should read summer sisters by judy blume (don't be put off by the fact it is by judy blume)

and the class by erich segal

or doctors by erich segal

i think you owuld like erich segal

i went to baording school
it was very real
although ours was like Lowood without Jayne Eyre

have got new york eric rutherfurd atm - is crap really

and the group
and oen about camping in the 70s

did you all get typhoid flu?

i pestered my parents to let me try for a scholarship to local girls skool (oddly enough they took no notic), prob because enid blyton featured heavily on my bookshelves at the time...

is that tent and bucket etc?? v v g

there is a thread on the group...have posted on it...still trying to think what it reminds me of...

(you are now forgiven for your absence )

did you read tent and bucket?
yes also had 60 exam papers to mark
tok 7 hours

tent and bucket hilarious

fortunately dh not marking papers this year

nor am i checking marks (phew)

go to amazon and buy some erich segal

is the only place you will find him these days apart from dusty bookshops in hay-on-wye

i buy a lot on ebay

expect he may hang out there too...

Oh I really liked American Wife but didn't like Prep.

I thought I would love it - subject matter right up my street. but I had a real problem with Lee. She was so unlikeable. No reedeming features. And not particularly clever so how did she even get a scholarship?

To be on the side of the observer you have to like something about her, and I didn't.

Grumpy old caaaaa...

you didn't have to like her but could you not relate to it in any way at all???

No. At first I thought this is going to be really good, but she just didn't do herself any favours. You want to secretly know she is charming, or clever, or pretty or interesting, so that you think 'yeah, soon all those biatches will see her true colours, Go for it Lee.'

But after chapters and chapters she still didn't turn out to be pretty or clever or charming or interesting. Just grumpy and cross and sneery. Of course all the pupils were ridiculous with their swishy hair and sense of entitlement and pointless school rituals, but at least they were interesting and living and vital.

I thought Lee was a bit of a downer actually.

but that's the point!!! trying to be this, or that, or the other in order to be accepted, consiously making decisions to be seen as this or that etc

normal people i think are actually not especially funny/beautiful/charming etc, that is part of growing up and discovering your own identity and becoming comfortable with your own personality/character/body.

ok am bored now
talk

do you not look back at yourself and think dear god girl you tried too hard???

no papers to mark susan?

no nothing.
have body pumped
drunk a cafetiere of macchu picchu
read local paper
pissed about on interent
hoovered
need to
a) shower (ewww)
b) go into town and buy a feather boa

on a whim? or are you going to a Formal Do? i used to have a purple one, you will leave a trail of feathers wherever you go

i have a cold and feel crap

ye si ahd a black one once that had teh amazing ability to pin point the exact cubicle i used to urinate.

amazing.
like that octopus but reallynotatall.
for an end of term leaving do.

poor you mayo
a cold in July? i can cher you with the fact i havent had a cold since .. well i dont know.

haha you could go all mata hari and team it with a bikini

plus you will also find feathers in your food. and possibly other peoples

i have a big red hooter and everything

why do colds make one so HUNGRY???

am eating like a fiend. have brewed whole pot of coffee and have whole packet of ginger snaps

yes feed a cold, my granny said.
she also said " there are no pockets in a shroud"

dh is also out at either staff or kids leaving dos ALL THE TIME at the mo

though sans feather boa as far as i know...

well hopefully the cold will put on all the weight from all the food...

are you saying cold will do me in???