Erm, Jeremy Kyle 'I'm Only Being Honest'
What are you reading right now? Page 91
Quote: Scatterbrained Floozy @ December 1 2009, 11:33 PM GMTI will have a looksie. I don't like writing off poets as a whole, so it'd be nice to find something I liked by him.
One advantage (for me at least) of that collection is that the poems are short and to the point. Heaney got a taste for writing long-winded epics at some point, from which he didn't really ever recover. 
We did some of his poems today, and while I really do relate to his trying to relate to things which were important to him through poetry. However, I do think he sometimes pushes the idea that "the further an image and its reciprocal image are in a metaphor, the better the metaphor is".
Quote: Scatterbrained Floozy @ December 1 2009, 11:38 PM GMTWe did some of his poems today, and while I really do relate to his trying to relate to things which were important to him through poetry. However, I do think he sometimes pushes the idea that "the further an image and its reciprocal image are in a metaphor, the better the metaphor is".
Yep, they're too long and windy sometimes. 
Like my explanation there.
Quite a good article by Ben Miller in the Eureka magazine today (supplement in The Times) for anyone who is interested.
Another reason to not eat chicken...
I have that! I also got a book free when I bought The Times for 30p at uni yesterday.
Animal Farm - My oldest son's English teacher has this assignment once a year where parent and child read the same book. Connor picked it, so I'm reading it too.
Quote: AndreaLynne @ December 5 2009, 2:30 AM GMTAnimal Farm
Worth reading at least once. And never forgetting the moral it teaches.
I'm serious.
Oh yes. Naturally, this was a forbidden book in the USSR.
I wonder why 
Quote: AndreaLynne @ December 5 2009, 2:30 AM GMTAnimal Farm - My oldest son's English teacher has this assignment once a year where parent and child read the same book. Connor picked it, so I'm reading it too.
He has good taste.
Sir Thursday by Garth Nix - Part of the Keys To The Kingdom series.
Quote: Scatterbrained Floozy @ December 4 2009, 9:48 AM GMTI have that! I also got a book free when I bought The Times for 30p at uni yesterday.
Did you read the article SBF? 30p eh, do you get a student discount?
I didn't yet, no. And apparently so! All the newspapers are about that or less.
Quote: Scatterbrained Floozy @ December 5 2009, 8:38 PM GMTI didn't yet, no. And apparently so! All the newspapers are about that or less.
The Times is a rip-off anyway, there are, like, no celebrities in it and their coverage of reality TV is, like, rubbish.
I prefer the good old Times!