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They still do it at my daughter's school and on the first day, she was the only one that had a book. Next day they took them to the library and made all the children without reading books of their own choose one. Most kids had never read a book for fun.

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Thanks to Kenny for his recommendations. That's the type of suggestions I was hoping for when I join the forum: Good authors I don't know; good books I never heard about, not things that I can see in every shop window.

And children being raised collectively, with hardly any contact with their parents has come to pass to in some societies, where parents only see their own children when they are on childcare duty in the nurseries. Hopefully genetically engineering different classes of citizens will not happen...

It's one of the books I intend to reread, but when I do I'd like to get Brave New World Revisited, a long essay Huxley wrote about 20 years after Brave New World, analysing how far the world has progressed in becoming the type of society he described in the novel. What did you think about the...

I think everybody has talked about the parts where it plodded on, but I believe it was even worse for you with the audio version. At least we could look at the pictures, to see what he was referring too. I have nothing against audio books, but I don't think they are the best option for an...

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Hello and welcome, Joanna

Welcome to the forum

"I reckon" in that sense is informal usage, which is usually local. Using 'I guess', as in Libre's example, would be more precise.

You could also try the rest of the Christmas stories. They are all about the same length and, in some editions, you can buy a book containing all of them.

I don't know how old are your children, but you might be interested in this thread

Welcome, Ali

Welcome to the forum

Are you sure about this, Novella? If you read the entries in the writer showcase, I'll think you will find enough that could win the contest without any tutorials or further practice.

Best of luck to all of you.

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I haven't read them, but there is a thread in Otherland and another on The assasin's apprentice