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« Reply #3735 on: 01:16:37, 03-08-2008 » |
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Here I am, the only living girl in New York [...] What to play to send me to sleep?
Simon and Garfunkel?  |
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The city is a process which always veers away from the form envisaged and desired, ... whose revenge upon its architects and planners undoes every dream of mastery. It is [also] one of the sites where Dasein is assigned the impossible task of putting right what can never be put right. - Rob Lapsley
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« Reply #3736 on: 01:19:17, 03-08-2008 » |
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Here I am, the only living girl in New York [...] What to play to send me to sleep?
Simon and Garfunkel? Hi tinners, Nice suggestion but - Just put on Jarvis Cocker & Pulp "This is Hardcore" Well, someone has to!  |
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Reality, sa molesworth 2, is so sordid it makes me shudder
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« Reply #3737 on: 08:39:59, 03-08-2008 » |
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Here I am, the only living girl in New York [...] What to play to send me to sleep?
Simon and Garfunkel? Sting I believe Anthiel. |
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« Reply #3738 on: 09:17:00, 03-08-2008 » |
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MJ, how about this? One of the best children's books I know. It has the lot. Including furriness.  |
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Green. Always green.
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« Reply #3739 on: 09:56:40, 03-08-2008 » |
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It looks as if Martle has hit the target with that one.
It was the age range was stumping me. Bears in the Night is a lovely return journey (you know, 'Up Spook Hill ... Whoooo": I bet everyone here can recite it) and contains fur, but too young. And Ian Serraillier's The Silver Sword is about the best, if also very upsetting, story of a children's journey that I know, but more for 10 or 11 upwards I should think.
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« Reply #3740 on: 11:43:24, 03-08-2008 » |
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I beleive that was made into a film as well. A Disney one, maybe?
NB Just looked up on amazon. They are Walt Disney, two version one in 1963 and the next in 1993. The Incredible Journey(1963) and Homeward Bound: The Incredible journey(1993). I know these are films etc., but just thought I'd include them.
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« Reply #3741 on: 12:46:32, 03-08-2008 » |
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As Beatrix Potter, fluffy bunnies and soporific lettuces are frequently mentioned here it may be of interest that there is a film on tonight called Miss Potter starring Renee Zellweger and Ewan McGregor, BBC1 8pm
"When Beatrix finally succeeds in selling a book of the stories she's lovingly been writing since childhood, it becomes the first project of publisher Norman Warne. As Warne grows to love both the book and its author, Beatrix sees the possibility of escaping her social-climbing parents' way of life."
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« Reply #3742 on: 13:26:50, 03-08-2008 » |
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As Beatrix Potter, fluffy bunnies and soporific lettuces are frequently mentioned here it may be of interest that there is a film on tonight called Miss Potter starring Renee Zellweger and Ewan McGregor, BBC1 8pm
Thanks Anty, I'd like to see that - and I'll try not to be annoyed that Miss Potter's played by an American... I liked Niamh Cusack as Beatrix in the animated films but maybe RZ will be better...  Thanks for the suggestions - I think I have a copy of Sheila Burnford's The Incredible Journey, martle, but don't think I've ever read it! It's buried in one of the many boxes of books... MabelJane, that is appalling, 6 to 8 year olds with no books and no one to read to them?
Yes, Anty, the majority of these children have deprived backgrounds and sadly, the lack of books is the least of their problems. I do give books out as prizes (I can often pick up good as new paperbacks in charity shops) but I suspect most of these end up destroyed by unruly dogs or untamed toddlers - many families have both of these. Sad that a lot of the parents are barely literate, with large families. |
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Merely corroborative detail, intended to give artistic verisimilitude to an otherwise bald and unconvincing narrative.
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« Reply #3743 on: 13:30:19, 03-08-2008 » |
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# 3732. 'Lassie Come Home', MJ. I loved it, circa 1942, and couldn't wait for the MGM technicolour version, the following year. In his film review, the acerbic Richard Winnington wrote: "The late Eric Knight wrote this immortal essay in Doggery-Woggery. MGM finished it off." The kids will love either, believe me.  |
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« Reply #3744 on: 13:36:27, 03-08-2008 » |
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Yes, Anty, the majority of these children have deprived backgrounds and sadly, the lack of books is the least of their problems. I do give books out as prizes (I can often pick up good as new paperbacks in charity shops) but I suspect most of these end up destroyed by unruly dogs or untamed toddlers - many families have both of these. Sad that a lot of the parents are barely literate, with large families. The lack of books, even more sadly, is not just the province of deprived families. We moved house many times during our marriage and we were constantly amazed by how many households didn't own any books at all, no matter what the price range of the houses! My dining room is wall-to-wall books, with bookcases on the landing and also in two of the bedrooms. Yet some, on the face of it at least, well-to-do families didn't even own a cookery book or a bible. I admired a row of green/gold antique-looking books I saw on one living room unit, only to be told that it was a cardboard facsimile and "you can buy them by the yard".  Surely if you were prepared to pay for something that looked like a row of books, you could buy a few of the real thing?  It would seem that television has a lot to answer for. Also computer games etc. |
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We pass this way but once. This is not a rehearsal!
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« Reply #3745 on: 13:55:54, 03-08-2008 » |
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# 3732. 'Lassie Come Home', MJ. ..............The kids will love either, believe me. I do believe you, Stanley! They do love dogs, even the nasty looking rottweilers a few of them own. Sorry, dog lovers, but it scares me to see rottweilers in the playground! |
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« Reply #3746 on: 13:58:19, 03-08-2008 » |
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As some may know I grew up surrounded by books due to my Father's profession. My Mother taught all four of us (yes, there are another three just like me!) to read by the age of four. I guess I have difficulty in comprehending how children may find reading difficult as to me, it was just natural. However, that is another topic altogether and I think Milly is right re tv and computer games, the emphasis is on the visual. My neighbour won a Double First from Oxford and until recently taught French and German at a private school. When I visit I am always surprised there is not one bookcase or book in the house but perhaps some people just don't need books? Certainly when I look at the books on my shelves I do wonder why I keep the majority of them. I know nothing about the personal life of Beatrix Potter but I confess I do love her books. Stanley, please don't mention Lassie Come Home, I am in tears just thinking about it  |
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« Reply #3747 on: 14:16:32, 03-08-2008 » |
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I admired a row of green/gold antique-looking books I saw on one living room unit, only to be told that it was a cardboard facsimile and "you can buy them by the yard". I now have the following scene in my mind. New neighbours visit the 'yard of books house' to attend a Welcome cheese and wine party. 'Oh great! You have the Complete Dickens. Fantastic. I've always wanted to read 'A Tale of Two Cities'. Mind if I have a quick look?' Pause. Sounds of scrabbling. Then ... 'Oh'. 'Any one for another cheese and pineapple stick?' says the Hostess just a shade too brightly. |
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« Reply #3748 on: 14:30:37, 03-08-2008 » |
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My dining room is wall-to-wall books, with bookcases on the landing and also in two of the bedrooms.
It would seem that television has a lot to answer for. Also computer games etc.
When I moved from Manchester to London 18 months ago I was asked to 'travel light' , so this involved taking about 40/50 carrier bags of books to the charity shops. They were very grateful, it was a wrench though to lose so many. I brought quite a lot with me and have now somewhat ironically started to buy paper backs from charity shops down here!! I also play computer games A |
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Well, there you are.
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« Reply #3749 on: 14:33:52, 03-08-2008 » |
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I admired a row of green/gold antique-looking books I saw on one living room unit, only to be told that it was a cardboard facsimile and "you can buy them by the yard". I now have the following scene in my mind. New neighbours visit the 'yard of books house' to attend a Welcome cheese and wine party. 'Oh great! You have the Complete Dickens. Fantastic. I've always wanted to read 'A Tale of Two Cities'. Mind if I have a quick look?' Pause. Sounds of scrabbling. Then ... 'Oh'. 'Any one for another cheese and pineapple stick?' says the Hostess just a shade too brightly. Memo to self: Never attend a cheese and wine party in Norf Lunnon where they seem not to have progressed beyond a Blue Peter hedgehog of pineapple chunks and Gouda as the main entertainment. |
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