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29th November

Dooey!

Hello, today is Dooey Day, because she keeps complaining that she’s not in enough posts on my blog. Also, she is here. Dooey and I haven’t seen each other out…
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22nd November

Small Island

After the non-excitement of Octopussy, I read Small Island by Andrea Levy, one of the few contemporary fiction books left on my Year Nine reading list from Miss D. I…
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20th November

Octopussy and the Living Daylights

I know I haven’t written in ages, but currently I feel empty inside and I can’t think of anything to write, so you’ll just have to survive on a book…
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14th November

At Least It’s Over

Well this week hasn’t exactly been fabulous, has it?

Today was particularly shite, and I think most people in my year would agree with me there. I was so tired…
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14th November

Miss D!

Well really, who ELSE could the Person of the Day be?

Things have been really shit over the last two days, our entire year group is really tense and aggravated…
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14th November

Breaking Dawn

I finished the Twilight series. I read Breaking Dawn. Far too fast, of course, but it simply could not be helped, and I would have read it a lot faster…
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7th November

Lizzie Oliver

After The Catcher in the Rye, I read another children’s book which has been sitting on my shelf for years, Lizzie Oliver by Catherine Robinson. It was a pass-on from…
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7th November

The Catcher in the Rye

After the horror of Simon’s Island, I was grateful for pretty much ANYTHING, but The Catcher in the Rye by JD Salinger was good in its own right. It felt…
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7th November

Simon’s Island

Continuing the system by which I force myself to read books I was supposed to read when I was about half my current age, I followed My Favourite Wife with…
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