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14 Jul 21, 10:18 PM |
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Books to read by age 18
As the title says, which books would you suggest anyone should have read during their teenage years?
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14 Jul 21, 10:23 PM |
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VIP Dibber
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Catcher in the Rye
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14 Jul 21, 10:29 PM |
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Imagineer
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Animal Farm
To kill a mocking Bird 1984 |
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14 Jul 21, 10:29 PM |
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14 Jul 21, 10:40 PM |
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Alison
I’ve re read them and Catcher in the Rye as well as War and Peace all of Jane Austin The Bronte Sisters books And most of DH Lawerence including my mother’s illicit copy of Lady Chats Lover over the last 18 months DH has gone through his childhood Biggles school prise books and James Bond And everyone should read at least one Agatha Christie I’m on DR Zavagio ( spelling ) again Even revisiting childhood classic now Wind in The Wilows Alice in Wonderland Sometimes just one book catches your imagination and gives you a life long love of reading what ever it was |
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14 Jul 21, 10:48 PM |
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My aim is for my children to read some 'classics'
I'd like to start with to kill a mockingbird, which I read for gcse. I mentioned this to my daughter, who said that they are no longer allowed to read American literature for gave😳😳😳 god help us with this present government. |
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14 Jul 21, 10:58 PM |
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Alison that’s absolutely rubbish and I’d have to challenge that classic books are just that
That attitude is a sure fire way to stop kids reading in this day and age I was lucky ( I’ve Dyslexia so my teachers in Primary and an amazing English teacher knees I wanted to read so couldn’t care what I read ) If a non voluntary reader wanted to read absolute rubbish even vintage comic books Penny horribles even the corn flakes packet it should be encouraged if you enjoy books you are never lonely never bored and learn so much that you don’t even know you do Honestly I’m disgusted that anyone should discourage reading at any age |
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14 Jul 21, 11:05 PM |
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I should add that 'gAve' in my previous post was strangely autocorrected from GCSE
Although it almost corrected to Gove! Between him and Gavin Williamson, I'm sure we will find the culprit disallowing American literature to be studied at GCSE To get around this peculiarity, at my kids school, they read Of Mice and Men in yr 9 to enable them to read it before narrowing down the curriculum. I want to spend this summer reading books with my teens that are meaningful and might shape their thinking
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14 Jul 21, 11:09 PM |
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Alison I:know something or one or 2 things are not spelt right but I’m tired so sorry
My dyslexia is the reason I’d never make light of any post on the Dibb when someone post something and one word might just change or make something worth somebody mocking oh and yes spell check can be a curse for some of us Again sorry if someone calls me out |
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14 Jul 21, 11:12 PM |
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Sorry gryff, I wasn't calling you out ... it was my post that autocorrected incorrectly!
I think we both agree that restricting literature is wrong 🙂🙂🙂🙂 |
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