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Coincidentally, I just finished the book this morning. I agree with you. One of the things I like most about the book was that it wasn't the happy ending sort where everything works out perfectly in the end. Sayuri couldn't have her true love without deeply hurting her closest friend. It was so...

I must admit the sick thing is truthful in my house too. I've gotten migraines my whole life, so at this point I just work through them as long as I can stand up/sit up without vomiting (and of course no one is ever polite enough to turn down the television or dim the lights)...my brother had a...

I'm with Ell. I'm young and very grateful to the women (and men) before me who won many of the battles for equality, but my generation is giving it all away. It disappoints me to hear women say they are "like men" to explain away differences in their personality or funtionality. Hm. I'm at a...

Thankyou Ell! I am a women and hence anything I do is womanly. It bothers me how much generalization as to gender behaviors there is. I'm straightforward and good at math, that doesn't make me manly; I also like to goof off and have silly conversations about nothing, that doesn't make me womanly.

A friend's mom told my friend an I to try a few cigarettes, smoke pot (but only until we graduate high school), and start dating married men. We were ten at the time. Great lady.

Oh wow...I know the book, I read it in middle school as well, but I haven't the faintest who wrote it or what the title was. I second the motion, what on earth was it called? Might it have just been "Captive" or something along those lines? Hmmm...

Hm, I guess I'm a bit different from the norm then. For me, watching TV and being entertained by it requires more effort than reading does. Both books and TV shows require you to remember which character is who and his life story. When reading a book, you use, conciously or unconciously, the...

It's nice to see other competitive math students. I'm on my schools math team, though our competitions are a bit different (six individual rounds, one team), and states aren't for another month or two. Great job.

I disagree a bit that children have stopped reading because it's the "Entertain Me" age. I agree that it is the "Entertain Me" age, but boooks are entertainment, but schools have stopped challenging young children to read, giving them only the regurgitated bird feed that's one-hundred percent...

I read Boy around that age (Dahl), and for some reason it terrified me. Then again I always did scary easily. The Goosebumps books weren't as scary for me, and not as well-written either, though my brother, who reads less, read a significant number of them. We also used to read these stories...

I've outgrown Dickens. It rather makes me sad.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez (doesn't it seem too formal to write out his whole name?) books have quite a bit of sex in them, some of it hot and some of it not so much. The same goes for John Irving books, though the sex in those rather turns me off, I think it's meant as more a reflection on society...

I enjoyed them very much, and wasn't exactly a kid when I read them. They're cute and perverse. Very enjoyable. You are better off borrowing than buying though, I own the first two but borrowed the rest, and I'll hit the library eventually for the last one. The author has a very unique writing...

I love the Lemony Snicket books, though I read them a little bit after the best age for those (I was about eleven when I started), and I will shamelessly go see the movie, and probably cry if it's bad :o I also loved the Laura Ingalls Wilder books and the Louisa May Alcott books (not just...

Yes! I watched the movie yesterday (incidentally while eating chocolate) and Puss in Boots made the whole damn thing worthwhile! My favorite line: Fiona: Shrek? Puss in Boots: For you baby...I could be... Anyway...yes...Antonio Banderas is just as delicious and produces the same...

I liked A Knot in the Grain. For a while I read those stories to get to sleep, which isn't to say that they're boring, but that they are soothing.

"Okay honey, you're good to go." She smiled. I smiled. It had been painless. "Next appointment in four weeks." "Okay." I walked fairly happily over to the secretary's desk, signalling my mom in the wait area at the same time. She met me at the desk. "Four weeks", I said to the secretary. She...

I usually reread if it's not too long, especially if the book is complex. Generally if I'm taking the time to go back to the book, it's worth rereading anyway.

Think of all the things you can't do with him there, or are better without him, or that you just haven't done in a long while. Do them all. Twice. Minimum. Eat lots of chocolate (a panacea, in my humble opinion). And just live life by yourself. Be the strong, independent woman that you know you...

Odd question I guess, and I suppose I mean it more for republished books than anything else, but when I'm reading Shakespeare I make a point to find a Signet Classics version, and for classics I like the Barnes&Noble editions. The former is for the footnotes and format, the latter for the...