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Post by HerMajesty on May 18, 2003 22:07:48 GMT -5
I am reading...
-The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
-A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking ;D
-Various Beatle books
and you?
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Post by StrawberryFields on May 19, 2003 4:45:24 GMT -5
I'm reading Emma by Jane Austen...It's really good.  |
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Post by HerMajesty on May 19, 2003 15:20:45 GMT -5
I'm reading Emma by Jane Austen...It's really good. Oh oh - wasn't there a movie made out of that book? With Gwenyth Paltrow? |
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Post by StrawberryFields on May 19, 2003 15:25:59 GMT -5
I believe so! Did you see it? I haven't...Not yet...*covers ears* Don't tell me the ending if you have!  |
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Post by SgtPepper on May 19, 2003 17:20:01 GMT -5
Im reading "There Are No Children Here"-- by Alex Kotlowitz. It's about the public housing projects in Chicago in the late 80's, early 90's. A sad, but good boook.
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Post by HerMajesty on May 19, 2003 18:30:20 GMT -5
I believe so! Did you see it? I haven't...Not yet...*covers ears* Don't tell me the ending if you have! Yes, I have, but I won't tell you what happens I'm not sure if you'd like the movie though -- no idea if it represents the novel correctly at all! |
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Post by StrawberryFields on May 20, 2003 4:36:20 GMT -5
My cousin (who's taking a Jane Austen Literature/Film class in college) said that it's good, but the ending is not the same as the book...We'll have to see!
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Post by beatlesbabe on May 27, 2003 9:57:38 GMT -5
Ooh Jane Austen fan! Have you read Pride and Prejudice? Or seen the BBC adaptation with Colin Firth??! *melts*
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Post by StrawberryFields on May 27, 2003 10:27:15 GMT -5
Ooh Jane Austen fan! Have you read Pride and Prejudice? Or seen the BBC adaptation with Colin Firth??! *melts* LoL, not yet! But I'm planning on it...I'm still on Emma (wow I have NO time to read..) and by the time I'm done with it, it'll be time to start the Harry Potter series again cause the new one comes out June 21st...THEN Pride and Prejudice |
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Post by SgtPepper on May 27, 2003 20:56:01 GMT -5
The Unoffical Guide to the Mysteries of Harry Potter, an analysis of books 1-4.
Whoa, hardcore HP book, Im in love. Its 400+ pages.... I need to finish it ASAP so I can start on 1-4 and the text books before June 21.
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Post by StrawberryFields on May 28, 2003 5:15:12 GMT -5
I need to finish it ASAP so I can start on 1-4 and the text books before June 21. LoL, exactly! I read more than half of 'Emma' yesterday because I know I'm cutting it close...I have finals and goddamn regentses next month, so God knows WHEN I'll be able to pick up a book.... I neeeeeed to finish 1-4 before the 21st! |
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Post by HerMajesty on May 28, 2003 7:13:57 GMT -5
LoL, exactly! I read more than half of 'Emma' yesterday because I know I'm cutting it close...I have finals and goddamn regentses next month, so God knows WHEN I'll be able to pick up a book.... I neeeeeed to finish 1-4 before the 21st! Regentses? Lol, I think I've heard of that, but what exactly is it? A contest/competition? It sounds like something Gollum would say.. ;D "I gots to take my regentses" |
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Post by StrawberryFields on May 28, 2003 16:06:52 GMT -5
LoL, no I think the plural of regents is actually regentses... Or maybe the singular is regent and the plural is regents...Hehe. Don't really know, maybe I'll ask. A Regents...Well...A Regents is a good ol' New York standardized test. Everyone in the state has to take a regents... One after Earth Science, one after Bio, one after Chem, after Physics...After Global History, after English 9 + 10, after Math A, Math B.. I've taken two so far, so I've got a long list ahead of me... New York State is the only frikken state to give out regentses, besides Cali which has their own version... They really suck, they're apparently harder than the SATS...Plus the whole curriculum for each class is based around what we need to learn for the goddamn regents... Hope that explained it well enough... |
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Post by HerMajesty on May 28, 2003 19:49:44 GMT -5
A Regents...Well...A Regents is a good ol' New York standardized test. Everyone in the state has to take a regents... One after Earth Science, one after Bio, one after Chem, after Physics...After Global History, after English 9 + 10, after Math A, Math B.. I've taken two so far, so I've got a long list ahead of me... New York State is the only frikken state to give out regentses, besides Cali which has their own version... They really suck, they're apparently harder than the SATS...Plus the whole curriculum for each class is based around what we need to learn for the goddamn regents... Hope that explained it well enough...  Sounds like what we have here in Texas (TEKS)..We used to have the TAAS, which was like Texas Academic..yeah, something like that Both are standardized tests, and they put your score on your transcripts  Also, if you don't pass them, you'll get held back..if you don't make good enough scores, they'll put you in Academic classes..  It's really dumb, considering they don't teach us the stuff on there..the teachers teach what *they* want to, so us students get screwed over! |
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Post by SgtPepper on May 28, 2003 20:36:44 GMT -5
I neeeeeed to finish 1-4 before the 21st! Ah, me too! |
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Also, if you don't pass them, you'll get held back..if you don't make good enough scores, they'll put you in Academic classes.. 
It's really dumb, considering they don't teach us the stuff on there..the teachers teach what *they* want to, so us students get screwed over!